“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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
““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 …
“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 …
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 …