As of August 26, 2015, Maja van der Velden has joined the GoodElectronics Network. She is is associate professor Design of Information Systems at the University of Oslo and implements research in, and teaches, the…
The Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC), a nonprofit coalition of leading electronics companies dedicated to supply chain responsibility, announced on August 26 the launch of a foreign migrant worker protection pilot program that aims to…
Today, the GoodElectronics Network is presenting the second edition of its Sub-Granting Scheme. With funding by the European Commission, GoodElectronics is currently executing a five-year programme which will run until the end of 2018. Besides…
GoodElectronics Network member Closing the Loop announced two days ago that 360.000 euro was invested in the Dutch company. This was made possible by an endorsement from PYMWYMIC, a community of sustainable investors. Closing the…
Workers at Dongguan Baoxing Electronics have been on strike for multiple days to demand compensation after the company announced it would relocate operations to another district in Dongguan. During the demonstration, workers held up a…
Samsung has agreed to the Mediation Committee’s recommendation to provide $85.8 million, but has rejected the core recommendation — the funding of an independent non-profit foundation for implementing the compensation. Support this call on Samsung…
Wu Chengcheng, a 41-year-old Chinese female worker and mother of a daughter, is desperately seeking help from the public. Wu is suffering from occupational disease as a result of exposure to chemicals while working at…
Beginning on August 3, hundreds of workers at the Kesheng Technology factory in Suzhou, China protested after learning that the company planned to move operations without giving workers reasonable compensation. Kesheng, a major supplier of…
International gold refiners who use gold from Ghana may be benefitting from hazardous child labor in unlicensed mines, Human Rights Watch said in a report released mid-June. After the gold is refined, it is sold,…