The climate crisis is already a reality that forces us to adopt an energy transition, abandon fossil fuels and bet on renewable energies. However, the current political and economic approach of the great economic powers does not lead us to make a just and truly sustainable transition. Transition plans, in which the private electric vehicle plays a leading role, are generating a sharp increase in the demand for certain … Read More
We analyse the working conditions in which electronic equipment is produced by factory workers in the Philippines The feminization of labour in the manufacturing sector has been a global trend in recent decades, extending to many economic sectors, including electronics. The report highlights that female workers in electronics factories, in this case in the Philippines, tend to have less access to education and fewer employment alternatives with respect to men, … Read More
The Danish journalistic group Danwatch reveals in a report prepared on the ground and coordinated by SETEM Catalunya that the migrant staff of a factory in Malaysia, supplier of the main chip producers in Europe and the USA, suffer from situations of forced labor, violent threats, passport retention and significant salary deductions. Witnesses about the conditions of slavery that are lived in the Malay factories have long been known. Although … Read More
The Danish journalistic group Danwatch reveals in a report elaborated on the ground and coordinated by SETEM Catalunya how our increasing demand for lithium for the manufacture of smartphones and electric cars has serious environmental impacts in the Atacama Desert, Chile. We present an investigation through different articles, reports and other audiovisual formats, on how the extraction of lithium for the batteries of our computers, telephones and electric vehicles … Read More
From SETEM, ISF and Alboan we have been demanding #FairElectronics for years, given the serious social and environmental impacts that occur throughout all phases of the life cycle of an electronics product. → Made by SETEM Catalunya, Ingeniería sin Fronteras and Alboan. Video focused on mineral extraction, in order to keep fighting and change this injustice. WITH THE SUPPORT
Trilogy on the impact of Covid-19 on workers in the electronics sector in India, where the pandemic has aggravated the precariousness and overexploitation of workforces, especially for migrants, and even more, women. → Made by SETEM Catalunya with CIVIDEP India. 1. Less salaries and more work. 2. Tamporary workers without union representation. 3. The added obstacles to women workers. WITH THE SUPPORT
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