The work of GoodElectronics is mentioned by member Nicki Lisa Cole in an article about the challenges of fairtrade gold. She explains the difficulties in tracing gold used in electronics and jewelry, due to the lack…
Consumer demand for small devices has helped create a system where products are recycled via shredding, which is very much what it sounds like. Gadgets are essentially pulverized down to their smallest bits, after which…
The people of the Cerattepe region in Turkey are fighting to stop their land from being destroyed by a mining company that wants to cut down the forests and pollute the water in order to…
Cividep India together with GoodElectronics has published a profile of Samsung’s operations in India. Cividep describes how Samsung India has completed 20 years of operating in India with special offers called “Celebrating 20 years” for…
Today, SOMO and GoodElectronics are participating in the Philips Sustainable Supply Chain Stakeholder Dialogue in Amsterdam. The discussions will focus on Philips’ Supplier Sustainability Performance and the Responsible Sourcing of Minerals.Today, SOMO and the GoodElectronics…
The GoodElectronics Network and the International Campaign for Responsible Technology (ICRT) have been awarded the 2016 Public Interest Advocate Award by the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC) for their work on the responsible management of…
BBC reports that Foxconn has recently replaced 60,000 factory workers with robots. A government official announced that the amount of employees in one of the factories has been reduced from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to…
Africa Resources Watch (Democratic Republic of Congo); the Business, Human Rights and the Environment Research Group (United Kingdom); the Korean Lawyers for Public Interest and Human Rights (Republic of Korea) and Karoline Duchene (Germany) join…
Rankabrand has compared and ranked 19 electronics brands like Apple, Dell, HP, HTC, Huawei, Nintendo, Samsung. The questions used for ranking are categorised into three areas: Labour Conditions and Human Rights, Climate Change, and Ecology….
GoodElectronics Thailand (GET) organised a two-day social media workshop on April 23 and 24, which was attended by 27 workers from affiliated member organisations. See below for more details.GoodElectronics Thailand (GET) organised a two-day social…