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 …

June 25, 2020

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, …

July 1, 2020

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 …

June 30, 2020 – January 1, 1970

‘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 …

Cross-Regional Webinar on Post-Cotonou Agreement: Gender and Trade Coalition

June 23rd (7 PM GMT)   Join us to discuss the impending Post-Cotonou Agreement, a major trade and development deal   As part of the Gender and Trade Coalition’s continuing webinar …

June 23, 2020

Cross-Regional Webinar on Post-Cotonou Agreement: Gender and Trade Coalition

 2 PM Jamaica | 3 PM Trinidad and Tobago; New York | 7 PM Ghana | 8 PM UK | 7 AM Fiji (Weds. 24 June, 7 PM GMT) Join …

June 24, 2020 – January 1, 1970

Challenges in Implementation of Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 due to COVID-19 and plea of force majeure

Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC) is considered a significant milestone in realizing the rights of seafarers. Before MLC there have been treaties and recommendations of International Labour Organisation (ILO) for …

Towards mandatory due diligence in global supply chains

“The Covid-19 pandemic has once again exposed the fragility of global supply chains and the enormous risks to human and labour rights in a highly interconnected global economy that is …