A few days after the start of Fairphone’s pre-order campaign for its Fairphone 2, Südwind, SOMO and the GoodElectronics Network are publishing a comparitive review The report ‘TCO Certified Smartphones versus Fairphone. A comparison of…
The GoodElectronics Network is pleased to share with you our Annual Report 2014. Together with network members and project partners, we have been very active on many fronts. We are proud to highlight some of…
The first session of UN negotiations on legally binding rules for transnational corporations (TNCs) concluded on July 10th, with hopes high for the process towards a treaty that could finally bring justice and protection to…
Health publisher Hesperian released a one-of-a-kind resource on workers’ health and safety. Drawing on the experiences of workers and health educators from every continent, this book aims to provide essential information to workers themselves, those…
Last month, we witnessed remotely, thanks to citizen reporting, the forced and violent evictions of women, children, families and workers occurring in a part of Agbogbloshie, “Old Fadama”, a neighbourhood of Ghana’s capital city Accra….
Yesterday, an alarming wake-up call. I woke up at 9.30am with two missed calls timed at 6am. Something was not quite right. I immediately called to receive the news: forced evictions at Agbogbloshie had begun…
600 workers striking at Philips, Indonesia, will go back to work after an agreement was reached with local management on 19 June. Workers at PT. Philips Industries Batam, went on strike at the beginning of…