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In response to the growing demand for critical minerals for the energy transition, Secretary-General António Guterres is leveraging the convening power of the United Nations to bring together a diverse group of governments and other stakeholders in the value chain of these minerals. Their goal is to develop a set of common, voluntary global principles to safeguard environmental and social standards and integrate justice into the energy transition. A recently … Read More

The company has justified reductions in wage compensation and the freezing of wages by a ‘crisis situation’, despite having declared that its operating profits for the second quarter would increase more than expected. Women workers at the semiconductor plant, beyond the wage increase, are demanding that the company not treat them “like machines”. Samsung Electronics’ largest union, the National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU), has launched an indefinite strike after failed … Read More

More than half of the 103 workers at the factory, including some of the deceased, were workers on temporary contracts. On 24 June, a huge explosion set fire to a lithium battery factory in South Korea, killing 23 women workers. The fire started at 10:31 a.m. local time after a series of batteries exploded inside a warehouse containing about 35,000 units. The fire spread through the factory run by battery … Read More

When Jessica first started working in an electronics factory in the Philippines, she received no safety training and no information about the health risks involved in her new job. After over a decade of doing soldering work at the factory, she was diagnosed first with trigger finger. Then, an ovarian cyst. Before she was finally transferred to another unit doing lighter work, she had to undergo various surgical interventions and, … Read More

EU campaigning pays off with promising new repair rules, but we need many more products to be covered After years of intense campaigning by right to repair advocates, EU lawmakers have finally agreed upon new repair rules (1). The Right to Repair Europe coalition, representing more than 140 organisations in 24 European countries, celebrates that the new law will pave the way for better access to affordable repairs for selected … Read More

In our everyday lives, we are constantly surrounded by electronic devices, the presence of which is becoming more and more normalized to us. Yet, we rarely think of the materials which were used to make them. Raw materials such as cobalt and copper are required to produce electronic devices – and with more devices being produced and consumed every day, the demand for such materials, which are mined in resource-rich … Read More

The MSC, which will take place from February 26 to March 2, will kick off with an artivism action at the gates of the MWC and throughout the week will host panel discussions, talks, family games and a live podcast. The Mobile Social Congress (MSC), held in Barcelona at the same time as the Mobile World Congress (MWC), will emphasize the real costs of the technology we consume, especially the … Read More

  On the afternoon of 24 December 2023, a fire broke out in the nickel smelter PT ITSS (Indonesia Tsingshan Stainless Steel), one of the companies in the PT IMIP (Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park) area. So far, the death toll is 19, plus 32 workers who have been seriously injured and are currently being treated in hospital. The Fair Electronics Campaign denounces the facts and the lack of measures to … Read More

Dear Commissioners, Dear Honourable Members of the European Parliament, Dear Ministers, We, movements, Indigenous Peoples, and Civil Society Organizations, particularly but not exclusively from resource-rich countries in the Global South, are very concerned due to the lack of strong due diligence terminology and safeguards for the sourcing of raw materials in the Critical Raw Materials Act and other related legislation. We, in resource-rich countries, are already experiencing the double impacts of the climate … Read More