The Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) launches a new series of Global Political Economy Briefs, starting with a Brief on ‘Ethical Audits and the Supply Chains of Global Corporations’. This new publication demonstrates that,…
The Sustainable Trade Initiative (Dutch acronym IDH for Initiatief Duurzame Handel) has launched a website that shows what has been accomplished over the past five years in the Chinese electronics industry. The site explains the…
Mid-December, Jim Puckett, Executive Director of BAN and Lai Yun, Founder and Executive Director of the Society of Canton Nature Conservation, witnessed the recycling streets of Guiyu as a ghost-town. All operations were shuttered and…
Just across the US border with Texas, workers in Ciudad Juárez have been launching brave actions against global manufacturing giants to improve conditions in the low-wage maquiladora sector. Over the past six months, workers (…)…
On January 9, after 37 days of detention, Guangzhou labour activists Peng Jiayong and Deng Xiaoming were released and escorted back to their home towns. However, lawyers of fellow activists Zeng Feiyang, Meng Han, and…
IndustriALL Global Union strongly condemns the Thai military government after it invoked new powers under the Public Assembly Act 2015 to arrest two union leaders in Bangkok yesterday (6 January). It followed a rally of…
Transport for London (TfL) has become the first public transport organisation to affiliate to Electronics Watch, providing €60,000 a year to fund long-term monitoring and improvement of factories, and gain access to intelligence from Electronics…
Labour centre Kilusang Mayo Uno from the Philippines condemned the approval, in the 10th ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization in Nairobi, Kenya, of a new agreement that is set to eliminate tariffs on new Information…
The GoodElectronics network welcomes two new members: the Labour Education and Service Network (LESN) located in Hong Kong and the Taiwan Association for Victims of Occupational Injuries (TAVOI) from Taipei City, Taiwan.The GoodElectronics network welcomes…
The University of Barcelona will become the first public institution of Spain to join Electronics Watch. The public higher education institution invests substantially in electronic equipment such as desktops, laptops and other electronic devices. Now,…