6 hours ago2 minNominations are open for the Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights 2021We hereby invite unions all over the world to nominate candidates for next year's award of the Arthur Svensson international prize for t...
Oct 202 minChild labor on the rise in the cocoa industryThe world’s chocolate companies depend on cocoa produced with the aid of more than 1 million West African child workers, according to a n...
Oct 132 minFarmworkers in South Africa take to the streetsThe Commercial Stevedoring Agricultural & Allied Workers (CSAAWU) took to the streets of Robertson winery 7th of October. The winner of t...
Oct 83 minNew global index shows catastrophic failure to tackle inequalityVery low spending on public healthcare, weak social safety nets and poor labour rights meant the majority of the world’s countries were w...
Sep 255 minLabour Rights Defenders are Human Rights DefendersLabour rights activism makes societies fairer by addressing the imbalance of power between corporations and workers and improving working...
Sep 221 minThousands of Colombians protest against economic policiesNearly five thousand Colombians showed up to protest on Monday, taking a stand against the current economic crisis and recent incidents o...
Sep 162 minMalaysia: Prisoners may face forced labour on palm oil plantationsPrisoners are expected to be put to work on Malaysia’s giant palm oil plantations to make up for an acute labour shortage heightened by t...
Sep 143 minEnd to kafala slavery in Lebanon?Lebanon has approved a new work contract allowing foreign domestic workers to resign and keep hold of their own passport, but activists s...
Sep 112 minEnsure ‘full respect’ for workers’ rights during protests, ILO urges President LukashenkoVoicing deep concern over detention and arrests of trade unionists in Belarus, the head of the UN International Labour Organization (ILO)...
Sep 32 minDomestic workers in South Africa face a lonely battle against abuseThere are just over one million domestic workers in South Africa, according to Statistics South Africa. The majority of them are women an...
Sep 13 minMass-scale, state-sanctioned forced labour - the brands must actIn western China, there is alarming, increasingly irrefutable evidence that mass-scale, state-sanctioned forced labour — particularly of ...
Aug 263 minThe dirty work that keeps US companies and other organizations union-freeAmerican companies have been very successful at preventing their workers from organizing into unions in recent decades, one of the reason...
Aug 184 minPhilippines: Trade union and human rights defender gunned downThe Philippine human rights movement is grieving over the killing of yet another activist in Bacolod City. The 39-year-old human rights d...
Aug 116 minThe value of labour after the pandemicAt least one lesson we should have learnt from the pandemic is that, in times like these, it is impossible to act within corporate limits...
Jun 222 minPrioritize ratification of the ILO Violence and Harassment Convention!The groundbreaking treaty, adopted June 21, 2019 by government, employer, and worker members of the ILO, sets international legal standar...
Jun 164 minCovid-19 And Migrant Workers: The great robberyGulf countries are highly dependent on migrant workers in almost every major sector. Yet they have utterly failed to protect migrant work...
Jun 152 minCoronavirus pandemic could push millions more children into workThe coronavirus pandemic has put millions of children at risk of being pushed into underage labor, reversing two decades of work to comba...
Jun 83 minUN report: Widespread human rights violations in the PhilippinesA heavy-handed focus on countering national security threats and illegal drugs has resulted in serious human rights violations in the Phi...
Jun 33 minCall for an Urgent Justice Mechanism for Repatriated Migrant WorkersThe COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted millions of migrant workers in destination countries, many of whom have experienced job loss ...
May 45 minHealth workers ask for decent work and a strong, public health care system—not applauseBy our guest blogger Camilla Houeland Writing in the UK Guardian in March 2020, the Liberian nurse and union leader George Poe Williams, ...
