"Beyond corporate transparency: The right to know in the electronics industry" 

The global electronics industry is...an industry where fundamental rights of workers are violated on a massive scale. Corporate secrecy...of business operations and trade relations plays a key role in perpetuating these harms. Workers in the global electronics production network, their families and communities are deprived of all sorts of vital information and access to decision-making processes with regard to their working lives and conditions...

In this report, we demand disclosure based on workers’ right to know...We stand up for the right to know as a key enabling right, understood as the right to access all information that may impact or is necessary to realise workers’ rights...This report calls for transparency in the global electronics production network from a rights-based approach whereby access to information is a right for workers, their families and members of their communities, and whereby providing information is a duty both of states and businesses.