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2025 Sep 10

Join us for our 10th anniversary end-of-year celebration!

Our annual end-of-year event has become a much-anticipated moment in the public procurement and human rights calendar. While last year we gathered in Brussels for an in-person conference, every other year we go online to make sure everyone can join us. And this year we have an extra reason to celebrate — it's our 10th anniversary!

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2025 Jun 19

The practice of human rights due diligence: Our 2024 Annual Report

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.

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2025 Jun 18

Electronics Watch welcomes new trustees after governance reforms

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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2025 Jun 6

New German Affiliate – the Bundesdruckerei Group

In May 2025, the Bundesdruckerei Gruppe GmbH, a German government-owned company that specializes in secure identification and digital security solutions, became Electronics Watch's latest affiliate. Headquartered in Berlin, the group plays a central role in safeguarding sensitive data and infrastructure for both the public and private sectors in Germany.

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2025 May 22

Joint action to remedy debt bondage

When a migrant worker at Allied Precision Technologies in Melaka, Malaysia was abducted for speaking out about recruitment abuses, he turned to Electronics Watch monitoring partner Migration Dristi for help. Our latest Impact Story explores how pressure from affiliates, human rights activists and linked brands eventually led to remedy for affected workers.

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