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.

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.

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.

We are excited to launch v3.0 of the Electronics Watch Contract Conditions and Code!

Electronics Watch stands in solidarity with EILER, its monitoring partner in the Philippines since 2022, which is facing repeated incidences of red-tagging.

Swedish Regions has commissioned Electronics Watch to conduct a contract compliance investigation related to migrant workers at a med-tech supplier factory in Taiwan.

Amsterdam has become the first Dutch entity to join the Low Emission Vehicle (LEV) Programme. This initiative, launched in 2022, is extending the successful Electronics Watch impact model into the automotive sector. The programme already includes six Electronics Watch affiliates and three other public sector participants from Belgium, Germany, Norway, Spain and the UK.

A new study from the OECD underlines the limitations of most ESG data, with 80% of metrics on labour rights and human rights found to be self-reported by companies, with no input from supply chain workers at all.