“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, …
Civic Space and the Defense of Democracy Thursday, 16 July 2020 3pm – 4.30pm Geneva time/9am – 10.30am NY The period 2010–2019 saw the erosion of democracy and civic freedoms …
Fighting climate change and labour rights abuses ‘two sides of the same coin’ for Sharan Burrow
Sharan Burrow admits to being worried. And with good reason. As general secretary of the International Trades Union Congress (ITUC), she represents around 200 million workers in 163 countries – …