Workers in key garment- and footwear-producing countries are, on average, receiving just half of the pay they need to achieve a decent...

The Burmese people ask the international community to stand up, to tighten sanctions, and to strangle the military junta and the...

One year into the attempted military coup, it is clear the private sector has failed to meet their human rights obligations. Businesses...

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has launched a new global database on trade agreements containing labour provisions, paving...

Kazakhstan is known for a systematic violation of core human and workers’ rights, as well as general lack of democracy in the country....

Lebanon’s restrictive and exploitative kafala (sponsorship) system traps tens of thousands of migrant domestic workers in highly abusive...

2021 was a pretty tough year in a lot of ways. As the pandemic took full effect, devastating job losses hit many workers hard, and the...

Thirteen million workers who toil on tea plantations have suffered from endemic human rights abuses while the tea companies they pick for...

The international trade union movement will mobilise to stand with Filipino workers on 10 December. For the third consecutive year, the...

Human rights organisation ECCHR and Dutch law firm Prakken d’Oliveira have petitioned the Dutch Public Prosecutor to launch a criminal...

The Council of Global Unions (CGU)*, which represents about 200 million workers, has called for urgent collective action to provide...

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

The acceleration of electrical vehicles (EV) production is crucial for the transition to a low-carbon economy, yet it appears to be...

The small Southern African state of eSwatini has been rocked by a great crisis since June, when decades of anger and frustration against...

Trade ministers from the G7 countries - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States - have committed...

We hereby invite unions all over the world to nominate candidates for next year's award of the Arthur Svensson international prize for...

Where unions establish collective bargaining, they initiate the strongest mechanism for protecting agricultural workers’ rights, health...

The pressure on independent trade unions and discrimination against their members has never been as strong as it is now. Earlier in...

When the question of trade unions in China would come up, some of us were fond of saying that there is an independent, democratic trade...

The Council of Global Unions holds today a Global Day of Action to support the recognition of the National Unity Government (NUG) as the...