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14 January 2021
Human rights
Auditing firms shouldn’t provide cover for the inaction of global brands on low wages
Aruna Kashyap : Brands that truly support workers’ rights in their supply chains should stop relying on social audits to drive labour compliance, especially regarding wages and working hours.Read the full article
10 December 2020
Development
Decent work: the key to the trade unions response to the pandemic in the Americas
Bárbara Figueroa : TUCA is committed through the principles and pillars set out in the PLADA to the construction of a new social contract centred on work and the working class. It is a firm commitment to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8 on decent [...]Read the full article
3 December 2020
Labour
After nine years of indefatigable struggle, Somalia’s free trade union movement has been totally vindicated
Omar Faruk Osman: It is unthinkable that a government led by a former member of civil society would take the extraordinary step of charging a trade unionist with treason simply for exercising his right to freedom of association and to preserve the independence of [...]Read the full article
3 December 2020
Environment
If decent work, saving our climate and protecting our biodiversity is the destination, just transition is the only pathway
Bert De Wel: “While just transition is a concept that is often associated with workers in fossil fuel industries that are in decline or expected to decline, the concept goes well beyond this.”Read the full article
19 November 2020
Labour
Access to sanitation for transport workers is as much about curbing Covid-19 as it is about dignity
Steve Cotton: “Is it right that we thank our vital workers by denying them vital services?”Read the full article
28 October 2020
Politics & economy
After Sunday’s historic vote, Chileans are now faced with the once-in-a-lifetime responsibility of drafting our future
Tamara Muñoz: In the 25 October referendum, 78 per cent of voters opted to ‘approve’. On the horizon is the drafting of a new constitution that will replace the one inherited from Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.Read the full article
15 October 2020
Politics & economy
Can Bolivia’s upcoming elections rescue its hijacked democracy?
Víctor Báez Mosqueira : For almost a year now, Bolivians have been enduring massacres, repression, detentions and exile. According the Defensoría del Pueblo, the de facto government “has committed crimes against humanity.” A country crying out for a return to the rule of law will finally [...]Read the full article
1 October 2020
Politics & economy
The future is digital, but we should keep digital chapters out of our trade deals
Duncan McCann: “We must ensure that, as we enter a new phase in the digital disruption of the economy, we do not shackle our democratic institutions from regulating the digital sphere.”Read the full article
8 September 2020
Labour
Once working people mobilise, as they have done in Belarus, change is inevitable
Luca Visentini: The political world may be divided in its support for or opposition against President Lukashenko, but the trade union movement is unified and solid: we support the people’s movement against police violence, for democracy, for the right to political [...]Read the full article
20 August 2020
Human rights
Human rights law must help shape government responses to Covid-19
Allison Corkery: For hundreds of millions of people around the world, hunger is now a much graver concern than the virus itself. This stark fact shows us just how poorly socioeconomic rights have been addressed in the majority of response [...]Read the full article
9 July 2020
Politics & economy
“As we marshal resources and new strategies to fight COVID-19, we must do the same to fight homophobia and transphobia”
MV Lee Badgett: While 29 countries now allow same-sex couples to marry, every country is still a developing country when it comes to the full inclusion of LGBT people.Read the full article
2 July 2020
Labour
Can Covid-19 provide an incentive for companies to create better supply chains?
Stijn Sintubin: Now is the time to look closer than ever at how to improve the conditions for workers in global supply chains. The cost of decades of blind pursuit of profit has been paid for by the workers.Read the full article
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