From Serbia to Bosnia, from Croatia to Slovenia, volunteers assisting refugees stranded along the Balkan route face animosity, obstruction and harassment.Read the full article
In 2018, after decades spent working and living under inhumane conditions, Ecuador’s abaca workers decided to demand their rights. Their initial victory in a court case against the Ecuadorian State and agro-industrial giant Furukawa represents an [...]Read the full article
Can the inclusion of social or environmental objectives in a company’s articles of association help to make them more virtuous? Whilst it may help promote a shift in business mindsets, it may also amount to little more than [...]Read the full article
Since 2006, approximately 30,000 women have lost their jobs in large-scale, often multinational-owned, tea companies because of mechanisation.Read the full article
Although the lack of decent work that propelled their migration remains endemic, hundreds of thousands of former migrant workers in South Asia are stuck in their home countries as jobs in the Gulf remain in short supply following the [...]Read the full article
Before now, the hegemonic discourse had made the many ways in which women and feminised groups participate in the management of daily life invisible. The rise of different forms of feminism has come to revolutionise not only the content, but the [...]Read the full article
Experts agree that climate change is affecting mobility. However, the relationship between these two things is not straightforward, as it is often portrayed, but complex, multicausal and context [...]Read the full article
The military’s economic ambitions are taking their toll on Egypt’s workers, who are being deprived of real trade union representation in a large number of sectors.Read the full article
Between 500 and 800 migrants survive under extremely precarious conditions in Calais, northern France. Despite daily evictions from camps and increasing police pressure, they hold out the hope of making the crossing to the United [...]Read the full article
“It is inconsistent to ask the market to properly manage water as a human right.”Read the full article
In recent years, neuroscience has demonstrated the powerful role that emotions play in our decision-making – something that brands, social media and politicians have figured out how to exploit.Read the full article
“With these laws, farming will become corporate, and these corporates will make us landless.”Read the full article
