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PAKISTAN’S GARMENT WORKERS NEED A SAFETY ACCORD

This report advocates for the establishment of a legally binding agreement, between apparel brands/retailers sourcing from Pakistan and labor rights groups/unions, for the purpose of ensuring workplace safety in Pakistan’s …

Turning the Law into a Shield for Street Vendors in African Countries

This brief, therefore, aims to compare civil law systems (prevalent in Francophone African countries) to common law systems (prevalent in Anglophone African countries) in relation to the issue of street …

“You Pray for Death” Trafficking of Women and Girls in Nigeria

When she was 18 in 2013, Adaura C. met a woman who promised her a job earning 150,000 naira (US$414) as a domestic worker in Libya. Adaura agreed, and the …

ANROEV OSH Newsletter (Jan – June 2019)

The ANROEV Secretariat conducts research on OSH. The ANROEV newsletter is the part of its regular intervention. This 44th edition includes: Homage to Chan Kam Hong OSH Strategic meeting Rotterdam …

No Year without Deaths – A Decade of Deregulation Puts Georgian Miners at Risk

“Mikheil, a miner for 35 years, died along with three other miners on July 16, 2018, in an underground explosion in the Tkibuli coal mine, in Imereti, Georgia. He was …

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Truck Driver Misclassification: Climate, Labor, and Environmental Justice Impacts

California has passed and continues to develop new policies designed to accelerate the adoption of low- and zero-emissions vehicles in the commercial trucking subsector.  These policies set increasingly stringent emissions …

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Collective bargaining in Europe: towards an endgame

This collection of four volumes charts the development of collective bargaining since the year 2000 in the 28 EU Member States. These four volumes document how the institutions of collective …

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GARMENT SUPPLY CHAINS SINCE RANA PLAZA: Governance & Worker Outcomes

The April 2013 Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh, which killed over 1,000 garment workers and injured many more, shocked the world. Since then, lead firms, supplier factories, governments and multiple …

Rethinking the Competition Law/Labour Law Interaction

The spread of non-standard forms of work, including platform work, has created some friction between labour law and competition law, in particular concerning the collective bargaining of self-employed workers. This …

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The Price You Pay: How Purchasing Practices Harm Turkey’s Garment Workers

Exploitation and abuse of Syrian refugees who make ‘fast fashion’ for the high streets of Paris, London and Berlin continues, despite three years of revelations. This report explains the root …

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