Apple stopped buying cobalt from artisanal mines in Congo
related content
BHRRC reports on the human rights and environmental abuses in SEA’s nickel supply chains
The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre published a report entitled “Powering electric vehicles: Human Rights and Environmental Abuses in Southeast Asia’s Nickel Supply Chains” this month. The report sheds light on the significant risks…
Lithium: towards a necessary sufficiency
NégaWatt, an organization focused on sustainable energy, has released a report about lithium, a crucial element for making Li-ion batteries. The report emphasizes the importance of electric vehicles in fighting climate change. However, it warns that if…
Workers at DRC’s industrial cobalt mines pushed further into poverty
“Around the world, companies engaged in the energy transition seem to be making record profits, while the Congolese workers who are bringing cobalt to global markets are falling further into poverty. The switch to clean…
Viet Nam’s electronics supply chain: Decent work challenges and opportunities.
Electric vehicles are a good thing – but not if everybody owns one
As the EU prepares to formally approve a new regulation to improve the sustainability of batteries used in electric vehicles, SOMO has published a powerful set of data visualisations showing the huge planned increase in…
Pakistan’s mines have killed at least 150 workers this year – IndustriAll
14 December, 2022 – The deadly accident in a coal mine in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan on 30 November was not a stand-alone incident. Nine workers were killed and four others sustained critical injuries…
Workshop: engaging with Chinese companies to address impacts of mining in South-East Asia
GoodElectronics organises two workshops on how to engage with Chinese companies to address the impacts of mining for minerals used in electronics and for the energy transition, with a specific focus on South-East Asia. The…
Apple must investigate Zhengzhou’s Foxconn factory
In a Change.Org petition, civil society organisations demand that Apple Inc. take on its social responsibility to thoroughly investigate the incident at Zhengzhou’s Foxconn factory. Since late October, footage depicting Foxconn workers’ experience of brutal…
The Right to Say ‘No’ in Ecuador: the #QuitoSinMineria campaign
Collecting 200.000 signatures by October 2022, this is the goal of the ongoing campaign “Quito sin mineria”. The campaign was launched in March 2022 by a group of organisations, collectives and people from the towns…
ACTION LAB (26 September): Towards resource justice
The European Environmental Bureau, Friends of the Earth Europe, the Institute for European Environmental Policy, and the European Youth Forum are organising an interactive hybrid workshop to co-create an ambitious agenda for resource justice. The…