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19 November 2020

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

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

18 June 2020

Labour

The ITUC Global Rights Index exposes the failings of the world’s economic model – a New Social Contract can help us build a new one

Sharan Burrow: This seventh edition of the Rights Index ranks 144 countries on their degree of respect for workers’ rights. The ten worst countries for workers in 2020 are Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Honduras, India, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, Turkey and [...]Read the full article

23 April 2020

Development

Will fundamental workers’ rights also fall victim to COVID-19?

Jeff Vogt: The right to strike is perhaps more important during this emergency, in order to be recognised as a worker, to hold employers to account over failures to provide protective equipment, to contest sweeping layoffs or, as a last resort, to demand [...]Read the full article

9 April 2020

Politics & economy

Huawei and the global race for 5G

Andrés Ortega: There is a global race for 5G and the Chinese company Huawei is in pole position. 5G technology, as well as being a strategic tool for a whole host of sectors, is crucial to the new information and communication boom being driven by the Internet [...]Read the full article

26 March 2020

Development

After COVID-19, the world will be a different place. Let’s make sure it’s a better one

Equal Times Newsdesk: The crises the coronavirus has laid bare exist on multiple fronts: it is a crisis of inequality, of human rights, of who does and doesn’t have the right to freedom of movement, to healthcare and essentially, the right to [...]Read the full article

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