The GoodElectronics Network connects and empowers organisations and individuals working to improve human rights in the global electronics supply chain
People & Planet has launched a petition calling upon major electornics brands to uphold freedom of association standards in their supply chains. The petition comes as a response to attempts by electronics companies to tactically…
Independent Mediation Committee annocounces that Samsung should compensate workers falling ill at its LCD and chip plants from 1984 onward. The committee it annocounced its final arbitration decision on Nov 1 2018, which also requests a Samsung…
Apple started an investigation after SACOM’s report revealed that it’s supplier Quanta Computer employed students to make Apple Watches in the Chinese city of Chongqing. These students didn’t worked voluntarily, worked overtime and their activities…
SACOM published a new report Apple Watch Series 4: Still Failed to Protect Teenage Student Workers. In summer 2018, this in-depth re-visiting investigation was conducted as a follow up after the report Apple Watch 3 in…
In 1982, a family in the US bought a microwave oven. In 2012, thirty years later, the microwave was still working. In 2017, a young lady purchased an iPhone upgrade and a protective case. Four…
National authorities conducted a three year investigation into the chemical industry. According tot his investigation: “Companies are breaking EU law by marketing hundreds of potentially dangerous chemicals that are widely used in consumer and other…
Siddharth Kara estimates, based on the data he gathered, there are more than 255,000 creuseurs mining cobalt in DRC, at least 35,000 of whom are children, some as young as six. Siddharth Kara is author,…
“Exposure of workers to toxic substances can and should be considered a form of exploitation and is a global health crisis,” said Baskut Tuncak – UN Special Rapporteur on hazardous substances and wastes. “Governments and…
IndustriALL Global Union’s network of coal mining unions met in Delhi, India, to escalate efforts to achieve a ‘Just Transition’ in order to defend coal miners’ interests in the face of challenges from climate change,…
GoodElectronics Network representing organisations and individuals worldwide, including trade unions, labour and human rights organisations, environmental groups, academics, researchers and advocates from civil society organizations, expresses concerns on the situation of striking unionists and workers…