The U.S. non-profit organisation Green America is inviting people to sign their open letter to Samsung’s management, to tell them to stop poisoning workers and to protect their workers’ rights. Green America cites cases of…
The Washington Post has recently published the third instalment of its series on the human toll of the fast-growing demand for lithium-ion batteries. Having already published articles about cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of…
With an interactive map that shows the different materials, suppliers and manufacturing locations involved in making their phone, Fairphone shows what serious efforts towards transparency look like. The company explains that all known suppliers to…
A newly released research report from Greenpeace Germany and the Öko-Institute gives a comprehensive overview of the resource related issues of smartphone and tablet production, use and recycling. The report, titled ‘Resource Efficiency in the…
December 8 marked the third Greenwich Symposium on Responsible Public Procurement. Delegates from civil society organisations, academics and procurement practitioners gathered to discuss ‘Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking and Human Rights Risks in the Global Supply…
The Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families coalition has released a new report card about US retailers’ safer chemicals programs this week. The coalition investigated to what extent companies like Amazon, Costco, Target and Walmart are making…
After the recent publication of an article that detailed the violations of workers’ rights in Samsung factories in Malaysia, Samsung has announced new Migrant Worker Guidelines. In the article from the Guardian, Samsung announced that…
The GoodElectronics network is happy to announce that, through the network’s sub-granting scheme, nine of its member organisations will receive financial support for their activities in 2017. Through workshops, research, advocacy and the creation of…
The New Internationalist recently published a blog post written by David Foust Rodríguez, coordinator of GoodElectronics member CEREAL (Center for Labor Reflection and Action). His article is a case for worker-led monitoring as an alternative to corporate…
The fiasco of exploding Galaxy Note 7 phones and Samsung’s subsequent decision to halt production of the newly introduced Note is directly affecting workers in Vietnam. At Samsung Electronics’ plant in Bac Ninh, which employs…