“The 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse disaster in Bangladesh, as well as numerous other industrial tragedies and labor rights abuses have exposed the need for brand and supplier accountability for …
ILO Violence and Harassment Convention will enter into force in June 2021
Fiji has become the second country to ratify the ILO’s Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) , after Uruguay did so on 12 June . With the deposit of this second ratification, the …
ILO and UNICEF Webinar: COVID-19 – Protect children from child labour, now more than ever!
When: 25 June 2020 Where: On Line – 10:00 – 11:30am (GMT+8) Malaysia Participants interested in joining the event can register here The ILO and UNICEF have partnered to co-organize the …
Chatham House Webinar: Healthy Civic Space in a Global Health Crisis – What Role for the Business Sector?
1 July 2020 – 2:00pm to 3:00pm To express your interest in attending, please follow this link. Bennett Freeman, Author, Shared Space Under Pressure: Business Support for Civic Freedoms and Human Rights Defenders Idayat Hassan, …
AFL-CIO: Annual Celebration for the George Meany-Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award Ceremony
Please join the officers of the AFL-CIO on June 30th at 10:30am EDT for our annual celebration for the George Meany-Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award Ceremony. We will honor the Civil Human Rights …
‘With labour exploitation worsening during Covid, tech giants must allow workers to join unions’
““I even have had to pay [my employer] money at the end of the month instead of getting money.” That’s a quote from Batsa, a 25-year-old Nepalese worker in an …
ILAW Statement: States Must Act Now to End Forced Labor at Sea
“The International Lawyers Assisting Workers (ILAW) Network, which unites over 400 workers’ rights lawyers from over 55 countries, writes to demand the immediate release and repatriation of the roughly 200,000 …
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Seafarers Trapped Serving Global Supply Chains amounts to Egregious Abuse of Human Rights: States Must Fulfill their Duty to Protect
“As the Covid-19 pandemic and the travel restrictions put in place to attempt containment drag on, around 200,000 merchant seafarers are trapped aboard ships in violation of international law. Each …