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Sep 25, 2020
5 min

Labour Rights Defenders are Human Rights Defenders

Labour rights activism makes societies fairer by addressing the imbalance of power between corporations and workers and improving working...

Sep 22, 2020
1 min

Thousands of Colombians protest against economic policies

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

Sep 16, 2020
2 min

Malaysia: Prisoners may face forced labour on palm oil plantations

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...

Sep 14, 2020
3 min

End 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...

Sep 11, 2020
2 min

Ensure ‘full respect’ for workers’ rights during protests, ILO urges President Lukashenko

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

Sep 3, 2020
2 min

Domestic workers in South Africa face a lonely battle against abuse

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

Sep 1, 2020
3 min

Mass-scale, state-sanctioned forced labour - the brands must act

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

Aug 26, 2020
3 min

The dirty work that keeps US companies and other organizations union-free

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

Aug 18, 2020
4 min

Philippines: Trade union and human rights defender gunned down

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

Aug 11, 2020
6 min

The value of labour after the pandemic

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

Jun 22, 2020
2 min

Prioritize 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...

Jun 16, 2020
4 min

Covid-19 And Migrant Workers: The great robbery

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

Jun 15, 2020
2 min

Coronavirus pandemic could push millions more children into work

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

Jun 8, 2020
3 min

UN report: Widespread human rights violations in the Philippines

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

Jun 3, 2020
3 min

Call for an Urgent Justice Mechanism for Repatriated Migrant Workers

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

May 4, 2020
5 min

Health workers ask for decent work and a strong, public health care system—not applause

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

Apr 13, 2020
2 min

Barbara Figueroa is awarded 2020 Arthur Svensson prize

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

Mar 21, 2020
1 min

Erlan Baltabay released

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

Mar 5, 2020
2 min

Bank Workers Win Historic Union

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

Mar 2, 2020
3 min

Qatar's labour reforms just hot air and broken promises

Ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar has promised reforms in the heavily critized migrant workers' rights, especially the dropping of...

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