We talk to three team members at the Flemish Agency for Facility Operations (Het Facilitair Bedrijf) in the latest installment in our "Meet our Affiliates" series. Find out more about their socially responsible public procurement goals, how affiliation to Electronics Watch is helping to meet those goals, as well as looking as some of their challenges and achievements along the way.

A team from Electronics Watch visited Malaysia in late January 2024 to meet migrant workers and learn more about the workplace issues they are facing, including union busting, recruitment fees, low wages and poor health and safety. Engaging local trade union representatives was another goal of the trip, to look at how we can combine efforts to tackle rights violations and prevent harm to workers.

Over the next five years, this Strategic Plan will guide us and our partners to defend the human rights of workers in global supply chains, to support a just transition and to counter authoritarianism with workplace democracy.

Learn more about the work of Electronics Watch monitoring partners in production regions, and how they support workers in attaining their rights. In this first interview in a new series, we talk to Linda Szabó, co-founder of Periféria Policy and Research Center in Hungary.

NHS Commercial Solutions (NHSCS) has become the first National Health Service procurement collaborative in the UK to affiliate to Electronics Watch on behalf of its core members.

Electronics Watch will be carrying out a project for the Government of Canada entitled ICT hardware products supply chain monitoring for risk mitigation of human trafficking, forced labour and child labour.

In the second installment in Electronics Watch's "Meet our Affiliates" series, we showcase another of our 1,500 affiliates and shine a light on the key people implementing responsible procurement.

We urge member states to vote in favour of the directive on corporate sustainability due diligence to give workers around the world a better chance to live and work free from forced labour and abusive working conditions

Tragically, during the final days of 2023, 18 workers were killed and 38 were injured after an explosion at a nickel plant on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Sulawesi is a hub for Indonesia's production of nickel, much of which is exported to meet the growing demand for use in renewable energy technologies, including batteries for electric vehicles.

In November 2023, a delegation from Electronics Watch travelled to Taiwan to provide training for local monitoring partners Serve the People Association (SPA) and to learn more about the issues facing electronics workers there. These include discrimination against union members, difficulties faced by migrant workers in securing repayment of recruitment fees, poor living conditions and unfair wage deductions.