Close to a year into the country’s community quarantine and more than a year into the global pandemic, Filipino workers and their families are mired in deepening poverty due to unabated rise in prices of…
The Restart Project interviewed Omana George, the Monitoring Coordinator of Electronics Watch, on Covid-19, the impact on electronics workers, and current trends. She talked about the current situation of electronics workers under Covid-19. Omana said…
On January 28, 2021, listen to the debate on trade and industrial policy and its implications for development and international labour standards with researchers and union representatives from Africa, Latin America and Asia Pacific. Attempts…
Swedwatch has just released its latest report on the impacts of hazardous chemicals on how women workers in electronic factories in the Philippines are exposed to a wide range of hazardous chemicals at work….
A report published by the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) and the Strategic Alliance for International Chemicals Management (SAICM) shows the impacts of chemicals on women, gender aspects of chemical exposure, and recommendation steps. Although chemicals…
More and more people are buying electronic gadgets, even under this Pandemic Covid-19. With the increase in electronic gadget consumption, there will also be an increase in e-waste. The increase in e-waste is serious harm…
A recent report from The Information has once again put Apple under the spotlight. The report revealed that it took three years for Apple to stop sourcing from its suppliers who violate its policies. The…
How the electric vehicle boom is draining communities and the planet The transport sector accounted for roughly a quarter of global CO2 emissions in 2019, with over 70 per cent coming from road transport. It…
Manufacturing batteries for electric vehicles is more complex than it might appear. Brot für alle (Bread for all), Fastenopfer (Swiss Catholic Lenten Fund), and ATE Swiss Association for transport and environment have been investigating the…
Reposted from SOMO Hiding behind complex supply chains, undermining unions, disseminating distorted information – these are just a few of the ways that corporations try to avoid responsibility for human rights abuses and environmental damage…