“When MSIs first emerged in the 1990s, they appeared to offer a transformative and exciting proposition. For years human rights and advocacy organizations had been investigating and naming-and-shaming companies for …
Seafarers will get enhanced rights as key workers following a joint commitment made at today’s (9 July 2020) International Maritime Summit. Representatives from over a dozen countries including Norway, Denmark, …
Workers in nearly one in four member states of the United Nations are not legally protected from discrimination based on race and ethnicity, researchers said on Thursday, as global protests …
Worker’s Rights to Association and Assembly: A Future Agenda Friday, 17 July 2020 3pm – 4.30pm Geneva time/9am – 10.30am NY The traditional tools for asserting workers’ rights –trade unions, …
Uber’s Achilles Heel: The Rule of Law
“As courts all over the world are holding Uber accountable on charges of infringements of workers’ rights, Bama Athreya provides insights into the larger issue of a fundamental conflict between …