“Poverty among women and violence against women are the most serious outcomes of gender inequality in the Czech Republic.”Read the full article
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For more than three decades, campaigners have been calling for Dow Chemical, the US-based company held liable for the Bhopal disaster, to accept [...]Read the full article
If nothing – or not enough – is done, low-paid workers like those on Thailand’s construction sites will feel the most acute effects of climate [...]Read the full article
The "ignored epidemic" - cancer from hazardous substances at work; campaigners say more must be done to restrict use and raise [...]Read the full article
The allowance of corporate tax avoidance, like austerity, is a political choice made willingly by the UK governmentRead the full article
Authorities, paralyzed by the fear of jobs losses, close their eyes to the ‘outrageous’ levels of pollutionRead the full article
Despite warnings from the international community, Syria continues using chemical weapons. Medical workers worldwide are calling to join a [...]Read the full article
This Wednesday, fast-food employees in over 30 countries will also be protesting against poor working conditions and pay: the use of zero-hour [...]Read the full article
Workers in Ireland are being asked to speak out about ethics in the workplace this month after President Michael D. Higgins called for an inquiry [...]Read the full article
With the right to strike being attacked globally, trade unions have declared an international day of action on 18 [...]Read the full article
A new campaign is challenging the world’s biggest jewellery retailer to clean up its supply chain and stop the sale of dirty diamonds and [...]Read the full article
After 11 days striking underground, thousands of Polish miners ended their protest and came to the surface on 17 [...]Read the full article
As survivors mark the 30th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster, shareholders in the US-based chemical company held liable by the Indian courts [...]Read the full article
"Climate change is probably bigger than all the challenges humanity has faced up to now," says Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi [...]Read the full article
A coalition of human rights organisations and trade unions are calling for the urgent reform of labour laws for migrant workers in the Gulf, [...]Read the full article
Campaigners accuse Amazon on thwarting social progress by blocking trade unions and preventing job stabilityRead the full article
After three days of passionate debate at the first-ever US-Africa Leaders Summit earlier this month in Washington DC, trade union delegates [...]Read the full article
“For something like this to happen, just four months after MH370, is just very difficult to take”Read the full article
Thousands of British families will be kept apart after a court ruled that tough new immigration rules requiring a minimum income are [...]Read the full article
Anti-poverty campaigners have said that a lack of social security across the world is a “political choice, not an inevitability”, following the [...]Read the full article
A landmark treaty aimed at tackling the scourge of forced labour has been adopted by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), updating the [...]Read the full article
A campaign by voluntary sector organisations against “forced volunteering” has delayed the planned launch of the UK government’s flagship workfare [...]Read the full article
Fast food workers across the world will stage a one-day walkout this Thursday in order to draw attention to low wages and unfair working [...]Read the full article
Lower back pain causes more disability than nearly 300 other conditions put together, and nearly one in ten people worldwide suffers from an [...]Read the full article
