Today, we proudly mark a decade of Electronics Watch! Founded on 19 February 2015, our organisation emerged from a three-year EU funded initiative, uniting seven NGOs with a shared vision: to harness the power of public procurement to protect workers' rights.

Samsung workers in Tamil Nadu factory have won recognition of their trade union, in a strategically important development that has inspired similar organising initiatives in other nearby facilities.

We are pleased to welcome Adda (Sweden) as a new affiliated public body.

Electronics Watch is pleased to welcome Charles University as a new affiliate, the first in the Czech Republic.

The Mining Monitoring Guidance applies the guiding principles of our Worker-Driven Monitoring Methodology to the specifics of mining, including the work environment and key safety features.

On November 6-7, 2024, Electronics Watch hosted its sixth Annual Conference in Brussels, Belgium. The conference brought together 118 participants from 75 organisations across 27 countries. Discussions explored stakeholder collaboration within the context of human rights due diligence with a focus on protecting the rights of workers.

One of Electronics Watch's strategic goals is for workers to exercise their right to organise and access remedy. Affiliated public buyers use their leverage to promote freedom of association and collective bargaining in their supply chains. This includes enabling access for trade unions to organise and represent workers collectively, and address union busting.

In a significant step towards responsible public procurement and the protection of human rights, Tarragona City Council has become the third municipality in Catalonia to affiliate to Electronics Watch.

Electronics Watch is pleased to serve as the secretariat for three public buyer working groups collaborating to strengthen corporate accountability and promote the effective implementation of human rights due diligence (HRDD).

In the past three months, the Tulizembe artisanal mining quarry near Kolwezi has seen 17 deaths due to landslides. These incidents have renewed concerns about the safety and reputation of Congolese cobalt, as reported by Electronics Watch monitoring partner, the Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW).