Nearly five thousand Colombians showed up to protest on Monday, taking a stand against the current economic crisis and recent incidents o...

Prisoners 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...

Lebanon has approved a new work contract allowing foreign domestic workers to resign and keep hold of their own passport, but activists s...

Voicing deep concern over detention and arrests of trade unionists in Belarus, the head of the UN International Labour Organization (ILO)...

There are just over one million domestic workers in South Africa, according to Statistics South Africa. The majority of them are women an...

In western China, there is alarming, increasingly irrefutable evidence that mass-scale, state-sanctioned forced labour — particularly of ...

American companies have been very successful at preventing their workers from organizing into unions in recent decades, one of the reason...

The Philippine human rights movement is grieving over the killing of yet another activist in Bacolod City. The 39-year-old human rights d...

At least one lesson we should have learnt from the pandemic is that, in times like these, it is impossible to act within corporate limits...

The groundbreaking treaty, adopted June 21, 2019 by government, employer, and worker members of the ILO, sets international legal standar...

Gulf countries are highly dependent on migrant workers in almost every major sector. Yet they have utterly failed to protect migrant work...

The coronavirus pandemic has put millions of children at risk of being pushed into underage labor, reversing two decades of work to comba...

A heavy-handed focus on countering national security threats and illegal drugs has resulted in serious human rights violations in the Phi...

The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted millions of migrant workers in destination countries, many of whom have experienced job loss ...

By our guest blogger Camilla Houeland Writing in the UK Guardian in March 2020, the Liberian nurse and union leader George Poe Williams, ...

The Chilean trade union leader Barbara Figueroa is awarded the 2020 "Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights". The Pri...

According to ITUC on March 20th, the leader of the Independent Oil and Energy Workers’ Union in Kazakhstan, Erlan Baltabay got out of jai...

New union at privately-owned Beneficial State Bank represents groundbreaking momentum for U.S. financial sector. The bank workers chose t...

Ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar has promised reforms in the heavily critized migrant workers' rights, especially the dropping of t...

A significant share of child labour and human trafficking in global supply chains occurs at their lower tiers, in activities such as raw ...