“As extreme weather intensifies across south-east Asia, we need governments to recognise street vending as essential work that deserves climate-resilient labour rights and social protection.”

Guatemala, “a state that is heavily chained to economic power, with little or no leeway to promote the interests of society as a whole”, is wasting the potential of its young citizens with its precarious employment, lack of opportunities and a democracy too weak to defend them.

With no access to mortgages or effective public policies, Venezuelan families look for housing wherever they can, be it in neighbourhoods on steep hillsides, shared spaces or informal settlements without basic amenities.

The Senegalese government has set itself the ambitious task of taking a lead role in new digital technologies in Africa. As well as investing in the infrastructure and overhauling the regulatory framework, it will also have to train the sector’s future workers.

Although often tagged as apathetic, today’s youth are deeply moved and mobilised by very specific and urgent issues: a liveable planet, decent work and housing.

Morocco has become a strategic country for European textile brands, a manufacturing location favoured over other Mediterranean competitors, but behind a façade of competitiveness hides another reality: the harsh conditions endured by its informally employed workers.

Portraits of quebradeiras de coco babaçu resisting the advancing threat of cattle farming and confronting the legacy of slavery in Brazil’s northeast.

Facing a shortage of skilled labour and a struggling education system, the Cambodian government has turned to vocational training as a key tool for driving the country’s development. While the approach shows promise, significant challenges remain.

While the Congolese authorities are using their lawsuit to draw international attention to the issue of conflict minerals, Congolese researchers and activists stress the importance of establishing clean and sustainable value chains – crucial steps to ensure that the mining of [...]

“Unless we resolve the issue of access to work and economic resources, we won’t be able to debate on an equal footing with men,” Nelvi Aguilar, a young Indigenous trade union and leader in the Valle Alto region of Cochabamba, Bolivia, tells Equal Times.