Electronics Watch's mission is to use public procurement leverage to promote and protect the rights of workers in global supply chains.
Public buyers exercising social responsibility
Civil society organisations and democratic trade unions supporting workers in attaining their rights
Employers complying fully with domestic and international labour rights and safety standards
Brand companies and resellers disclosing suppliers and compliance data and taking effective action to remedy labour rights and safety breaches in their supply chains
Remedy is an essential but often overlooked element of corporate due diligence. To tackle this gap, Electronics Watch and the GIZ Initiative for Global Solidarity (IGS) collaborated between 2022 to 2024 to improve workers' access to an effective grievance mechanism in electronics supply chains.
The practice of human rights due diligence has been the theme of 2024. Our Annual Report focused on its prerequisites: increasing supply chain transparency for workers and public buyers; collecting credible evidence for rights violations; and coordinating meaningful engagement with workers and their representatives to remedy rights violations in public supply chains.
Electronics Watch is happy to welcome five new trustees. Three represent affiliated public buyers: Richard Ellis of Monash University in Australia, Peter Norhstedt of Adda Central Purchasing Body in Sweden, and Victor Torrents of the Association of Catalan Municipalities. Two are worker representatives: Nadia de Leon of the Institute for Occupational Health and Safety Development in the Philippines and Lennon Wong of Serve the People Association in Taiwan. They all bring leadership experience and expertise in a range of areas related to public procurement or international labour rights.
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