Electronics Watch, Free Webinar via HEPA

20th Oct 2016 11:00 – 12:00

Global trade has global impacts, including low pay resulting in systemic poverty, poor working conditions (sometimes amounting to forced labour), displacement, pollution and uncertainty as market demands fluctuate. Electronics Watch aims to support workers' rights in an electronics industry that seeks low profit margins, short lead times, increasingly uses contract labour and relies on vulnerable groups and suppresses labour rights in countries that have few and under-enforced legal regimes.

Harpreet Paul is an international human rights lawyer who previously worked at REDRESS and Amnesty International. She is currently the UK representative of Electronics Watch, housed at People & Planet's offices in Oxford. Harpreet will talk through how Electronics Watch supports public buyers to meet their responsibility to protect the labour rights of workers in their global electronics supply chains more effectively and less expensively than any single public sector buyer could accomplish on its own. She will also outline some of the key issues in the supply chain and how Electronics Watch assists public buyers to comply with the Modern Slavery Act (2015) and its Scottish and Northern Irish equivalents.

Liz Cooper is the Social Responsibility and Sustainability Research and Policy Officer at the University of Edinburgh. The University of Edinburgh was the first university to join Electronics Watch. Liz will outline her experience of working with Electronics Watch, distributors, brand and factories to obtain tangible improvements, including obtaining disclosures about factory locations and working conditions and supporting workers led monitoring in electronics assembly lines.

To book your free place please click here.

If you have any queries or would like to submit any questions to  Harpreet or Liz in advance please contact Emma Keenan. View this event on the EAUC website →