Webinar Series: 10 Years Protecting Freedom of Assembly and Association Worldwide (1st Webinar)

Taking Stock: Mapping the Way Forward Tuesday, 14 July 2020 3pm – 4.30pm Geneva time/9am – 10.30am NY To commemorate the mandate’s 10 years of existence, the UN Special Rapporteur, …

July 14, 2020

Between Sein and Sollen of Labour Law: Civil (and Constitutional) Law Perspectives on Platform Workers

The ability of today’s capitalism to organise traditional means of production in unheard forms by powerful algorithms and digital devices, raises issues for labour law when the nature of the …

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Suspension of Labour Rights during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Possible Implications under the Revised Draft

“Many state governments of India have amended their labour laws in the wake of the economic crisis posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Uttar Pradesh (UP) is one state that has …

20 Years After: Implementing and Going Beyond the Palermo Protocol Webinar on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children 13-14 July 2020

The UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, in cooperation with GAATW, is organising a webinar to reflect on the 20th anniversary of the Palermo Protocol. Speakers will discuss the …

July 13–14, 2020
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Tackling the Covid-19 pandemic at the workplace

“From the very first cases of infection in Wuhan, the Covid-19 pandemic has been about workplace health and safety. The virus has shone a spotlight on the inadequate protection of …

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Extending social security to workers in the informal economy: Lessons from international experience

“For most workers in the informal economy, the lack of social protection is a challenge not only in their daily struggles to make ends meet but in their aspirations to …

Decisiones adoptadas por el Consejo de Administración de OIT en junio de este año, relativas al envío de memorias para el Estudio General sobre Empleo y al Informe General para 2021.

El la sesión realizada el 04 de junio de este año, por el Consejo de Administración de OIT, se tomaron importantes decisiones relativas al envío de memorias de los Estados …

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MODEL ARBITRATION CLAUSES FOR THE RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES UNDER ENFORCEABLE BRAND AGREEMENTS

“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 …

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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 …

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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 …