• 133k number of workers Apple's contractors, over 102 facilities, use to create their products
• 17 number of violations it found as a result of its own internal audits of contractors
• three number of cases it found of contractors purposely hiring underage workers; that's bad source

• I’m in another guesthouse maybe 200 metres as the crow flies from the Bekhtar, and believe me right now I feel vulnerable. I would like the UN to consider our security very seriously indeed as the current operational standards are patently ineffective.
• An anonymous United Nations worker • Describing their feelings on the attack on a UN guest house in Kabul, Afghanistan. As the UN is needed in the war-torn country right now, the organization should probably heed this concern. It’s one thing when civilians are getting attacked. It’s another thing entirely when impartial humanitarian workers are. • source

$7.25

the new ground floor of the minimum wage source

74

workers, at least, were killed in a mine blast; more are trapped source