Research

Publication / September 1, 2011

Phony Equality

Labour standards of mobile phone manufacturers in India

News / September 1, 2011

This report focuses on labour rights in the mobile phone industry in India and addresses working conditions in export processing zones (known as Special Economic Zones in India). Th e aim of this research is…

News / August 15, 2011

Urgent appeal for human rights defender Charles Hector

Many of you have already responded to petition and call on Hitachi, who claims to source from Asahi Kosei, an electronic producing company in Malaysia. Asahi Kosei is suing Charles Hector in order to stop…

News / July 12, 2011

‘Tragedies of Globalization: The Truth Behind Electronics Sweatshops’

A new report by China Labor Watch (CLW), ‘Tragedies of Globalization: The Truth Behind Electronics Sweatshops’, points at on-going labour rights violations at ten Chinese electronics factories that supply finished manufactured electronic products to multinational…

News / July 11, 2011

A trip around special economic zones in the Philippines

Officially, special economic zones (or Ecozones) were created to “promote industrial, economic and social development and, by the way, give jobs to the Philippino people”. But in reality, Ecozones are first of all destined to…

News / July 8, 2011

Principles and guidelines for innovative worker training programmes

GoodElectronics and makeITfair have developed a set of principles and guidelines for innovative worker trainings focused on workers’ empowerment.These principles and guidelines are the outcome of the work conference ‘Workers’ empowerment through training Complementary roles…

News / July 1, 2011