Please join the officers of the AFL-CIO on June 30th at 10:30am EDT for our annual celebration for the George Meany-Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award Ceremony. We will honor the Civil Human Rights …
ILAW Statement: States Must Act Now to End Forced Labor at Sea
“The International Lawyers Assisting Workers (ILAW) Network, which unites over 400 workers’ rights lawyers from over 55 countries, writes to demand the immediate release and repatriation of the roughly 200,000 …
Challenges in Implementation of Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 due to COVID-19 and plea of force majeure
Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC) is considered a significant milestone in realizing the rights of seafarers. Before MLC there have been treaties and recommendations of International Labour Organisation (ILO) for …
Business Views on Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Regulation: A Comparative Analysis of Two Recent Studies
https://doi.org/10.1017/bhj.2020.10
Workers’ rights seen crumbling as coronavirus threatens further setbacks
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Labour rights are being eroded worldwide as more countries deny workers the ability to strike, unionise and negotiate better terms, a global trade union said …
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‘With labour exploitation worsening during Covid, tech giants must allow workers to join unions’
““I even have had to pay [my employer] money at the end of the month instead of getting money.” That’s a quote from Batsa, a 25-year-old Nepalese worker in an …