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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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 …