Veronica Nilsson:“A commitment made by representatives of 40 national governments will not on its own end the global healthcare workforce crisis. But ministers and officials have made that positive commitment and we should hold them to account and work with them to achieve [...]Read the full article
“In addition to being a health crisis, the pandemic has resulted in a global restructuring of our living and working conditions,” says Chilean psychologist Alondra Carrillo, former spokesperson for the Coordinadora Feminista 8M and member of the Constitutional Convention of [...]Read the full article
Being a woman in the Caribbean nation comes at a very high cost that has only increased since 2015 due to Venezuela’s complex humanitarian emergency and the Covid-19 crisis.Read the full article
Economic and political conditions, combined with the effects of the pandemic, are placing the labour market out of reach for millions of young people in the Arab world.Read the full article
From the cyberattacks on Israeli hospitals that affected thousands of people, to those that paralysed most of Iran’s petrol pumps for several days, cyber warfare in the Middle East is on the rise and its targets are increasingly [...]Read the full article
Christy Hoffman:The broken global long-term care system can be repaired, and worker power is a fundamental part of the solution. The pandemic has proven this.Read the full article
With songs, TV series, books and podcasts, creators from all over the world are giving visibility and generating debate around anxiety, depression and even suicide. A taboo subject until recently, the pandemic has placed mental health front and centre in the global [...]Read the full article
Home healthcare is a fast-growing sector in the United States, with a large percentage of women, minority and immigrant workers. However, the appreciation for such essential labour during the Covid-19 pandemic has not translated into acceptable pay and conditions, with many workers unable to [...]Read the full article
In France’s overseas departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique, people wonder why, with so many endemic problems, the law on Covid vaccines is the only one France seems intent on enforcing.Read the full article
Eduardo Magaldi González:Collective bargaining is once again at the centre of the settlement of industrial relations thanks to the labour reform recently passed by the Spanish parliament.Read the full article
Annie Sparrow:“The substandard, get-by-on-the-cheap procedures that the Chinese government and the IOC have instituted for the Beijing Olympics risk lowering global standards for everyone. It is unlikely that only athletes will pay the price.”Read the full article
“Employers have taken advantage of the coup to overthrow the unions. They are violating labour rights, cutting wages, forcing workers to work and violating all previous labour agreements.”Read the full article
“Decent work is the only sustainable way to accelerate the growth of production and employment, to increase the pace of poverty reduction, and to build genuine democracy and social cohesion in South Africa.”Read the full article
Brazil’s Public Labour Prosecutor’s Office is fighting on all fronts to defend the country’s workers. At the centre of this battle, which has intensified since the onset of the pandemic, are the institution’s prosecutors. Since President Jair Bolsonaro came to power in 2018, they have been faced [...]Read the full article
Rachel Moussié :“Understanding how some workers face overlapping systems of discrimination will be key to finding effective Covid-19 response measures.”Read the full article
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the discrepancy between the pivotal social, economic and public health role of India’s sanitation workers and the fact that they “remain at the bottom of society”.Read the full article
In order to better support migrant workers – both those from Zimbabwe living and working abroad and those from other countries living and working in Zimbabwe – the government of Zimbabwe launched its inaugural National Labour Migration Policy (NLMP) in June this [...]Read the full article
The pandemic has highlighted the crucial social role played by migrant domestic workers in Italy, yet the state continues to discriminate against them and to deprive them of adequate protection. The plight of those working without papers – the majority – is even [...]Read the full article
Jo Becker:“The unprecedented economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, together with school closures affecting 1.4 billion children, has pushed countless children into exploitative and dangerous child labour.”Read the full article
While factory workers in Taiwan’s booming semiconductor industry serve as the backbone of its economy, the rights and dignity of these workers often take second place to company profits.Read the full article
Mexico ranks first in the world in childhood obesity and second in adult obesity. Until recently, studies addressing the causes of obesity have focused on the poor choices made by individuals, but have rarely looked at the obesogenic [...]Read the full article
Beijing has used the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity to boost its global image. And to strengthen its foothold in the MENA region, its interests, long limited to securing the flow of oil, have been broadened to include a range of areas, stretching from culture to [...]Read the full article
“While there might be a recognition of the role that waste pickers play in urban systems now, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s actually translating into effective and inclusive policies.”Read the full article
Cuba has adopted drastic economic, political and social control measures in an 11th hour attempt to stem the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic on a country already severely weakened by the tightening of the US blockade.Read the full article
Faced with mounting poverty, local officials in France are subsidising food aid associations on the condition that they get their supplies from local producers, foreshadowing the idea of “social security for food”.Read the full article
The land-locked country of Paraguay, located in the geographic heart of South America, has the continent’s lowest Covid vaccination rate and one of its worst health systems. Fed up, Paraguayans have taken to the streets in numbers rarely seen over the last [...]Read the full article
Alex Nkosi:Without social dialogue to improve the plight of workers, the post-Covid-19 environment foretells a future of distrust and apathy.Read the full article
Nicolás Sartorius:This health, economic and social pandemic has shown the need for strengthened welfare states, and the political risks associated with weakening them, as well the need to build welfare states where they do not exist in order to avoid permanent conflicts and the crisis of dislocated [...]Read the full article
Owen Tudor:“Unions must have no truck with anti-vaxxer conspiracy theories, but we need to address sympathetically those who are worried by that propaganda, or just naturally concerned about the safety of newly developed vaccines.”Read the full article
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed the many obstacles in accessing a safe abortion in Poland, Romania, and to a lesser extent, Hungary, either because of prohibitive laws and/or because of conservative political and religious [...]Read the full article
Ted Piccone:At the intersection of these twin crises of public health and rule of law stand four main concerns: constraints on government powers, fundamental rights and discrimination, corruption, and access to justice.Read the full article
“Calls to take action on sustainable fuels and climate change are increasing, destinations are taking steps to ban cruises or regulate access, and the effects of mass tourism are becoming increasingly visible.”Read the full article
In Nepal, the fear and uncertainty caused by the pandemic has intensified various inequalities against women, especially gender-based violence.Read the full article