2017 February 23

Electronics Watch at the Mobile Social Congress in Barcelona, and the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London

From Barcelona to London - film screenings of two new human rights documentaries about the electronics industry, workshops, roundtables and much more...

This year's Mobile Social Congress, the event created as an alternative to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, covers "The impact on the Global South of activities related to the supply chain and life cycle of electronics" on February 28, including the screening of the documentary The Voice of Workers, and "Alternatives to monopolies and exclusion in telecommunications, and technological sovereignty" on March 1. Participating organisations include Electronics Watch, SETEM Catalunya, the Politechnic University of Catalonia and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Amnesty International Catalunya, Justícia i Pau and the Catalan Federation of Organizations for Global Justice. All details in the following programme.

On March 11 and 13, Andy Davies from Electronics Watch affiliate LUPC will be guest panelist at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival screenings of Complicit, a documentary shot last year about a Chinese Foxconn factory migrant worker-turned-activist.  While struggling to survive his own work-induced leukaemia, Yi Yeting teaches himself labour law in order to prepare a legal challenge against his former employers. There will be two London screenings - one on March 11 at 5:30pm at the Picturehouse Central, the other on March 13 at 6:15 PM at the Barbican. The screenings will be followed by panel discussion with filmmakers Heather White and Lynn Zhang and special guests.