Uber has spent nine months battling California regulators’ demands for detailed information on sexual harassment and assault claims made by its customers and drivers. The company’s favored legal strategy of …
Sexual assault, forced labor, wage theft: garment workers in Jordan suffer for US brands
Mehedi Mehedi, a 36-year-old Bangladeshi garment worker who had spent 14 years working in Jordan, left the country forever last December. It was not an easy decision to make: Mehedi …
SITI AISAH AND OTHERS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OEA/Ser.L/V/II. Doc. 238 27 August 2020 (Admissibility)
“The Commission notes that this petition includes allegations regarding the alleged impossibility, due to the diplomatic immunity of the foreign employers and the ineffectiveness of the protection and remedies put …
Fashion’s dirty secret: how sexual assault took hold in jeans factories
“At one of the biggest garment factories in Maseru, the capital city of Lesotho, the managers never hired enough regular workers to complete the clothing orders that flooded in from …
Victims of violence at Unilever tea plantation take complaint to the UN
The complaint is brought to the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights and the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights by the Centre 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 …
El Senado aprobó la ratificación de un Convenio de la OIT contra el acoso laboral
Sin la presencia de la oposición, el Senado aprobó y giró a la Cámara de Diputados este miércoles un proyecto impulsado por el Poder Ejecutivo que ratifica el Convenio 190 de …
CASO GUZMÁN ALBARRACÍN Y OTRAS VS. ECUADOR SENTENCIA DE 24 DE JUNIO DE 2020 (Fondo, Reparaciones y Costas)
El 7 de febrero de 2019 la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (en adelante también “la Comisión Interamericana” o “la Comisión”) sometió a la jurisdicción de la Corte el caso …
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Workplace sexual harassment in Mexico: towards gender-transformative remedies
“A new Mexican labour law reform provides a series of non-judicial avenues to redress sexual harassment in the workplace, including a State conciliation mechanism and workplace grievance mechanisms. This raises …