Total abuses in Uganda: French High Court of Justice declares itself incompetent in favour of the Commercial Court

The Nanterre High Court has handed down its decision on the summary proceedings brought by Friends of the Earth France, Survie and four Ugandan associations (AFIEGO, CRED, NAPE/Friends of the …

Transforming the labour governance of global supply chains

Activists and academics alike hailed the conclusion of the Accord on Fire and Building Safety which offered hope that lessons had been learned from the carnage of the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh. …

First Regional Conference on Sexual Harassment and the Law in Africa [Call for Papers]

ASEHI First Regional Conference  Nairobi, Kenya Abstracts should preferably focus focus on the the development of sexual harassment laws in their specific countries and/or regions  and should accentuate the gaps, …

June 24–26, 2020

The Mighty Apple, Google, Tesla, Dell and Microsoft in “the dock” – A Look At the Child Labour Lawsuit

Apple, Google (through its parent company Alphabet, Inc), Dell, Microsoft and Tesla have been named as defendants in what could be a landmark case pertaining to the use of child …

A trade union guide to the African Court and the African Commission

“Mechanisms established under the African Charter, the African Court on Human and People’s Rights (the Court) and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the Commission), can be used …

Firestone tires built Liberia’s economy. Now, painful layoffs are sowing fear for the future

As the price of rubber slips on the global market, Firestone — a company founded in Ohio with nine decades in this West African country — is shedding large swaths …

Chocolate companies ask for a taste of government regulation

Some of the world’s largest chocolate companies are acknowledging widespread child labor on cocoa farms and calling for regulations to discourage the practice, particularly in West Africa, the source of …

Refugees and decent work: Lessons learned from recent refugee jobs compacts

The paper “addresses refugee livelihoods – in particular, waged work for refugees – from a labour standards perspective. This is in contrast to the usual approach to refugee livelihoods, in …

Travail des enfants en RDC: plainte aux États-Unis contre les géants de la tech

Tesla, Apple, Google, Dell et Microsoft sont accusés de complicité de travail forcé d’enfants dans les mines de cobalt en RDC. Certains de ces enfants ont été tués et mutilés pour produire …

Doe v Apple Inc., et al

On December 16, 2019. a lawsuit was filed in federal court in Washington DC against Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla by Congolese families who say their children were killed …