Ecuador: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2017

Section 7 of the report addresses broadly the current situation of the workers’ rights. The report analyses the freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining in the country. …

What if Your Ability to Stay in This Country Depended on Your Employer?

Describes personal accounts of what happens when guestworkers try to stand up to their employers to confront labor abuse. https://www.thenation.com/article/what-if-your-ability-stay-country-depended-your-employer/

The Global Governance of Paid Domestic Work: Comparing the Impact of ILO Convention No. 189 in Ecuador and India

The article explains the situation of domestic workers in Ecuador through the years and how their situation has changed, comparing it with the experience in India, after the ILO Convention …

Das Haus billigt das Verbot der Diskriminierung von Transgendern

Das New Hampshire House stimmte im März 2018 dafür, das Antidiskriminierungsgesetz des Staates auf Transgender-Leute auszuweiten. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-hampshire/articles/2018-03-07/house-to-vote-on-prohibiting-transgender-discrimination

Peru: Regulation of Act N° 30709, Act that prohibits remunerative discrimination between men and women

Title in Spanish: Reglamento de la Ley N° 30709, Ley que prohíbe la discriminación remunerativa entre varones y mujeres. The regulation of the act that prohibits remunerative discrimination between men and …

R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission et al

R.G. and G.R. Harris Funeral Homes argued that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act protected their ability to fire a transgender worker. The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed, finding that  …

Das Prozessrisiko konzentriert sich auf moderne Sklaverei

Der Artikel diskutiert "die Entstehung von Gerichtsverfahren unter Verwendung bestehender Rechtsrahmen, um Menschenrechtsverletzer vor Gericht zu bringen", insbesondere im Fall von transnationalen Konzernen ...

Danell Tomasella, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiff, v. THE HERSHEY COMPANY

The class action claim alleges that Hershey knowingly benefitted from child labor in the cocoa supply chain in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire and failed to disclose such information to consumers …

Altitude Express v. Zarda

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Title VII does cover discrimination because of sexual orientation. The case concerns a recreational parachuting company that fired one of its trainers, David Zarda, …

Canada Announces Two New Initiatives to Hold Companies Accountable for Human Rights Violations Abroad

The authors describe two recently-announced Canadian initiatives designed to address “human trafficking, child labor, and other forms of forced labor in global corporate operations.” The article further details the role …

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