La OIT debate que la salud en el trabajo sea considerado un derecho fundamental

La Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) quiere celebrar sus 100 años de vida con una declaración que recoja los cambios que se están dando en el mundo de trabajo con la revolución …

Solidarity Center: The ILO Global Standard to End Violence and Harassment in the World of Work, Including Gender-Based Violence and Harassment

In June 2019, delegates representing unions, employers and governments are conducting final negotiations for a global International Labor Organization (ILO) standard to end violence and harassment at work, including gender-based …

OPINION: Can a global treaty end gender-based violence at work? With workers it will.

Between June 10–21, the International Labour Organization (ILO) is meeting in Geneva to finalize a convention covering violence and harassment at work. The process creating this convention is important: The …

Activists unite to fight corporate SLAPP suits

Legal suits designed to drain the resources of citizens and rights groups, known as strategic litigation against public participation, work to silence those most affected by big business. “SLAPP suit” …

Corporate Commitments to Living Wages in the Garment Industry

This report investigates the commitments that 20 garment companies have made to paying living wages across their supplier network and analyses the actions they have taken to meet those commitments. …

Press Release: Rotterdam Convention discredited as chrysotile asbestos fails to be listed

The eighth Conference of Parties to the Rotterdam Convention, a United Nations treaty that requires dangerous substances listed by the Convention to be traded only with prior informed consent, is …

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American Bar Association International Labor Law Meeting

May 5–9, 2019

Commentary: How to Fight Sexual Harassment at Work? Empower Women Workers through Trade Unions

No-one was within earshot, but Roja (not her real name), a garment worker, spoke in whispers as we walked in a park on a Sunday, her day off, in Mysore …

THREE SECTORS, THREE YEARS LATER: Progress and Gaps in the Fight Against Forced Labor

“Violations of the rights of workers persist in today’s corporate supply chains. In articles published in the months ahead of the writing of this report, workers cited an array of …

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“Paying for a Bus Ticket and Expecting to Fly” How Apparel Brand Purchasing Practices Drive Labor Abuses

This report is based largely on interviews with garment suppliers, social compliance auditors, and garment industry experts, including those with at least a decade’s experience sourcing for numerous global brands; …

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