Last year, solar power became the fastest growing source of new energy, surpassing all other forms of power generation. Yet, despite the huge benefits of solar energy and its fundamental role in future energy development, there…
Worker Empowerment (WE) has concern for the minimum wage adjustment policy in China and conducted an investigation into wages and workers’ expenses in Guangdong Province. These surveys repeatedly show that the minimum wage policy is…
Samsung faces a lawsuit in the French courts for misleading advertising related to alleged workers’ rights violations. Two french non-governmental (NGO) firms – Sherpa and ActionAid France filed a lawsuit last week targeting Samsung Global and…
China Labour Watch, a US-based workers’ rights organisation, reports that a worker has died after jumping from a factory window on Saturday. Li Ming, aged 31, jumped to his death from a building in the…
The GoodElectronics network is happy to announce that, through the network’s sub-granting scheme, three of its member organisations will receive financial support for their activities in 2017. Through training, research, advocacy and the creation of…
A study conducted by the environmental NGO IPEN and Vietnam-based Center for Gender, Family and Environment in Development (CGFED), reveals the poor working conditions in Samsung’s Vietnamese smartphone production sites. The study focuses on interviews with 45 workers at two factories…
Apple has faced heavy criticism from the President Donald Trump administration, which demands that it creates jobs in the USA. A report by Jenny Chan and Mark Selden in ‘China’s Worlds’ (2017) looks at Apple’s response to…
According to the Global E-waste Monitor 2017 report our worldwide e-waste rose with 8 procent in de last two years. The report predicts that e-waste will increase an additional 17 percent by 2021 and will…
On December 13, 2017, the supermajority in the 17th Congress and the Senate approved President Rodrigo Duterte’s extension of martial law in Mindanao, Philippines for another year. The decision is far from the promised promotion…