Bernard Duterme:The idea that the Global North owes an ‘ecological debt’ to the Global South remains controversial, particularly when it comes to putting an exact figure on that debt, let alone honouring it. This concept, however, refers to real responsibilities [...]Read the full article
Luis Linares:“For the first time in many years, there is an opportunity to overcome the anti-worker and anti-union bias of past governments, especially the previous two. It is no exaggeration to say that this is the last call for the state to fulfil its [...]Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:“Unfortunately, there are many factors behind the widespread concern and deep pessimism that prevail when looking to the near future, and call into question these basic assumptions of the EU-27.”Read the full article
Luc Triangle:“This May Day we must remember what trade unions have done for democracy in the past, and harness the collective power of trade unions to defend and rebuild democracy now and in the future.”Read the full article
Giulio Romani:“The ETUC demands that asylum-seekers should have the right to work in all member states. Trade unions and employers should work together to ensure decent employment conditions, essential to building solidarity between workers and equal [...]Read the full article
Hod Anyigba:By actively countering the interests of finance and multinational corporations, trade unions serve as a vital voice, ensuring that workers are not left to shoulder the burdens of economic downturns alone. In this collaborative effort, trade [...]Read the full article
Daniel Bertossa:“All governments and actors have an obligation under the Geneva Conventions to protect civilians, especially those providing lifesaving services in conflict zones. Making human rights law optional or context-dependent sends a dangerous message, [...]Read the full article
Atahualpa Blanchet:Platform cooperativism represents more than just an alternative employment model: it also offers a vision of hope for building a more equitable and participatory world of work in the digital [...]Read the full article
Mandeep Tiwana:“Although most countries have embraced the ritual of elections, the quality of democracy on offer is poor. In short, many elections in 2024 will be less free and transparent than the winners want us to [...]Read the full article
Okba Mohammad:The Syrian armed conflict is 13 years old, with the various sides backed by regional and international powers such as Iran, Russia, the United States and Israel. Since the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel, the dynamic has changed and its [...]Read the full article
Bernard Duterme:“While the rebels of Chiapas may not have succeeded in reforming Mexico’s constitution, decolonising its institutions or even gaining a foothold in the country’s political scene, they have nonetheless given unprecedented local, national and [...]Read the full article
Luis Linares:Bernardo Arévalo’s election victory offers a glimmer of hope that efforts will be made to promote green and decent work. But the ‘pact of the corrupt’, trying to prevent the social democrat from taking office on 14 January 2024, is fuelling [...]Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:“There is no indication that, in the fight for the spoils, either of the two warring generals is willing to budge, at least until they see what their loyal troops can do with their weapons. Adding to the gloomy outlook, the mediators in the peace [...]Read the full article
Alex Nkosi:“The journey of trade unions in Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone represents a beacon of hope for unions worldwide. By prioritising peace alongside economic interests, these unions have become catalysts for positive change in fragile [...]Read the full article
Arthur Neslen:“We demand that the slaughter of Palestinian media workers – the suppression of living memory, in fact – be halted, and that those responsible for it be held accountable.”Read the full article
Ronald Janssen:“Strong wage formation institutions together with robust social dialogue allow workers to catch up with inflation by bargaining for higher wages and, more generally, to negotiate a fair sharing of the cost-of-living crisis. It is shocking to [...]Read the full article
Bettina Zourli:“While the repatriation of goods stolen during the colonial period is a key issue, the word ‘restitution’ in the DRC refers to a much broader concept. The term refers more readily to a long process involving not only the reconstruction of history [...]Read the full article
Luc Triangle:“Most poor people in the world work. The systematic attacks on unions significantly reduces the ability of working people to secure and defend decent wages. Wages are not a neat calculation based on supply and demand and the price of labour; they [...]Read the full article
Giulia Massobrio:“Since 2018, the ITUC has been calling for a new social contract in line with SDG 8. This contract includes six demands that are crucial to achieving truly sustainable development: from rights-based and climate-friendly jobs to wage justice and [...]Read the full article
Chloé Maurel:“Under the 17 ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs) proclaimed by the UN in 2015, goal 6 aims to ensure access to and the sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. But will these declarations remain a dead letter in a world where [...]Read the full article
Christina Colclough:“Whilst the process of automation is nothing new, the extent and speed of it is. It has been estimated that over 300 million jobs worldwide will be severely affected by these systems.”Read the full article
Farhad Mirza:The West keeps shifting the blame for these failures on smugglers and dodgy economic migrants but it is time it reckoned with its active role in shaping this murderous landscape.Read the full article
Vicente Salas:“Many of the proposed initiatives for change and groundbreaking reform start from a recognition of the limitations of nation states to act in cooperation. Instead, these reforms seek to turn companies/legal entities into the implementing arms of [...]Read the full article
Claes-Mikael Stahl:The ETUC is standing with our brothers and sisters in the Philippines. We urge the EU institutions to do everything in their power to ensure that there are sufficient guarantees from the government of the Philippines to ensure that there is [...]Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:Global military spending has continued to rise for the eighth year in a row. Seen from a traditional state security perspective – which generally assumes that more weapons means more security – this could be interpreted as good news. But is [...]Read the full article
Ruwan Subasinghe:A human rights-based approach to climate action is imperative to ensure a just transition for workers and communities. In order to effectively mobilise resources to enable a transition to low-carbon climate resilient societies, just transition [...]Read the full article
Christina Colclough:Across the world, workers are increasingly subjected to digital systems and technologies. Unless workers and their unions build the capacity to understand how these technologies work, and what causes the harms and otherwise negative impacts on [...]Read the full article
Daniel Kostzer:“The response to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse are both powerful examples of the underlying logic of capitalism, that a bank can be bailed out in a matter of hours but during the Covid-19 pandemic it took most governments [...]Read the full article
María Ana Skotadi:In Argentina and throughout the region, the fight against corruption shows signs of systematic bias against left-wing leaders. Their political opponents have weaponised the media and the justice system and resisted the progressive will of [...]Read the full article
Blandine Lavignon:Georgia was rocked in early March by historic demonstrations in opposition to a draft law that would label media and NGOs receiving foreign funding as ‘foreign agents’. Civil society actors explain what is at [...]Read the full article
Kalpana Karki:“According to a study by the International Land Coalition, South Asia and Latin America exhibit the highest levels of agricultural land inequality, with the top 10 per cent of landowners capturing up to 75 per cent of agricultural land and the [...]Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:“The issues of security and wellbeing are not antithetical but are the two basic pillars of peace, both within and beyond the borders of all states.”Read the full article
Frédéric Thomas:The CTH (Haitian Workers’ Confederation) and the CTSP (Public and Private Sector Workers’ Confederation) reassert their firm anchorage in the Haitian social movement and their commitment to promoting a ‘transition of rupture’, with the support of an [...]Read the full article
Daniel Kostzer:It is clear that the popular narrative about worker shortages and layoffs is aimed at building a cultural consensus against workers and the labour movement, and is based on biased, partial, and even contradictory [...]Read the full article
Marga Zambrana:Experts and international organisations warn that only those who are able to quickly adapt to change through lifelong learning will survive.Read the full article
Alan McClay:“Success or failure with regards to the future of the world’s land and its ability to sustain life is one determining factor: soil health. The earth beneath our feet is so ubiquitous that it is easy to take it for granted, but it literally [...]Read the full article
Luis Linares:While the journey that migrants take to cross the US border can be perilous, those who are deported face another series of trials upon their return home, including stigma, shame, and difficulty reintegrating into families and finding [...]Read the full article
Juan Antonio Sanz:China has displaced Russia as the dominant power in Central Asia. It has done so thanks to its diplomatic and economic might. Russia’s decline highlights the fragility of relations with Central Asia based on Moscow’s military [...]Read the full article
Paulo Casaca :Although China did not invent the concept of the ‘debt-trap’, as the world’s most important source of international development finance, China is currently the main international player of this centuries-old debt power [...]Read the full article
Steve Rushton:“Since the 1980s, scientists have driven the response to the unfolding climate emergency. Countering this, an industrial complex has developed to deny what is happening and stymie meaningful action, funded by the world’s most profitable fossil [...]Read the full article
Walton Pantland:Multinational corporations dominate the global economy, but labour laws exist at national level, with no international body to defend workers from violations in supply chains. How do we seek justice and remedy for the world’s [...]Read the full article
Ana Belén Muñoz Ruiz:Safety at work can be and already is being used as grounds for collecting and processing employees’ data, but the measures must be part of a rationale of prevention.Read the full article
Nazaret Castro:The current debate is about the content of the term ‘sustainability’ and whether the solution to the environmental problems caused by the capitalist market economy is more market mechanisms.Read the full article
CONNECTAS:The conflict in southern Chile and Argentina, involving political radicalisation and violence, shines a spotlight on an existential problem in Latin America – what is the place of the millions of historically invisibilised Indigenous [...]Read the full article
Macy Leung :The very systems that have made Hong Kong an open society, a remarkable success story and a free place distinctly different from repressed China, have all but disintegrated.Read the full article
Valerio De Stefano:The metaverse has been talked about only in terms of gee-whiz technologies – but it raises very serious labour concerns.Read the full article
Jan Willem Goudriaan :Organising care on a not-for-profit basis is good for society, good for taxpayers, good for people who need care and support, and good for care workers.Read the full article
Carlos Julio Díaz Lotero:A key task for those elected is to rethink the development model that has been pursued for over 30 years, with appalling results. If we succeed in turning trade union proposals into public policy, the principles of ever more decent work will [...]Read the full article
Chloé Maurel:Despite the will of the majority of its members to see the global governance body embrace new tools to deal with the challenges of the century, the UN is still stalled on the issue of how to deal with conflicts related to climate [...]Read the full article
Steve Rushton:By taking on corporate power, cities – in concert with the climate movement – can build a new system out of the shell of the old.Read the full article
Lucía Ortiz de Zárate Alcarazo:Given that technology is a human construct that is socially and culturally conditioned, any prejudices, habits and ideas that are not regularly and rigorously examined are destined to find their way into the design and use of new [...]Read the full article
Fundación Alternativas:Attempts to implement top-down mechanisms, such as the single digital payment, that leave out a significant percentage of the world’s population will only result in poverty and exclusion. Virtual money already coexists seamlessly with physical [...]Read the full article
Mary Kaldor:The courageous Ukrainian resistance and the anti-war movement in Russia are a civic, not ethnic, reaction to the invasion. And their civic stance has global support.Read the full article
The Conversation:Since the beginning of January 2022, Kazakhstan has found itself in the throes of a social and political crisis of unprecedented proportions. Popular demonstrations, armed riots and an attempted coup d’état have shaken Central Asia’s largest and [...]Read the full article
Svitlana Iukhymovych :Chronic informality and gender inequity have paved the way for the platform economy’s current success in Ukraine.Read the full article
Sharan Burrow:This year’s Nobel Prize in Economics is an indictment against the disproven theory that providing economic security for workers will cost them their jobs.Read the full article
Yasmine Osman:While the Sahel remains plagued by recurrent conflicts, there are nonetheless positive signs of economic and social development in the countries of the region.Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:Current technological momentum points toward the inevitable militarisation of space. The Outer Space Treaty, signed in 1967 with the express purpose of prohibiting the use of space for military purposes, remains the only international agreement [...]Read the full article
Ruwan Subasinghe:“A just transition towards a low carbon economy is not only possible, but an urgent necessity. Climate change will continue to impact workers worldwide, and such impacts are likely to be significant and disruptive unless workers are an integral [...]Read the full article
Jeremy Dear:“We have to change our location daily to hide from the Taliban as they are checking and searching for the people who always talked against them and women who appeared on the radio, television. Living such a life is very [...]Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:Is it a weapon of war between states? A trend emerging out of the rise of identity politics? An attempt to draw lessons learned, to prevent history from repeating itself? An ethical obligation with meaningful [...]Read the full article
Grygorii Osovyi:“In declaring, on the one hand, that human labour is a key resource, and starting a race to the bottom in their pursuit of the maximum reduction of labour rights, state intervention and social standards on the other, the authors of these draft [...]Read the full article
Joseph Baines:Commodity traders wreak havoc on global markets and profit from ecological and social devastation. Can they be stopped?Read the full article
Frank Hoffer:The ILO’s findings not only demand clear action by Belarus to respect international human rights, but they also establish a moral imperative for the international community not to stand idly [...]Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:“No sufficiently solid legal framework currently exists to prevent the potential problems that lie ahead, include the possibility of direct violent clashes.”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 [...]Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:Rapid technological progress and human need have brought us to a point where space mining and space tourism have already moved beyond the realms of science fiction and into the realms of the possible, becoming real options in the here and [...]Read the full article
Carlos Julio Díaz Lotero:“Our country’s elites have failed to construct a national project, a project of society. In face of this failure, the impoverished majority, and in particular the young, have come forward with their own proposals to build the new social contract [...]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 [...]Read the full article
Robert Maisey:This cosy relationship between private companies and government, leveraging a national crisis to facilitate an accelerated transfer of wealth from public to private, can only be given one name: [...]Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:With its bid to join the space race, the United Arab Emirates is not only seeking to bolster its national pride, its human capital and its dream of regional hegemony, but also to improve its chances of competing in a highly demanding niche [...]Read the full article
Ruwan Subasinghe:“What this cat and mouse game with Uber highlights more broadly is the ever-widening imbalance between capital and labour.”Read the full article
Khaing Zar Aung :The people of Myanmar have shown that we are ready to give whatever it takes to achieve freedom and democracy. And we need you – workers, citizens, businesses and governments of the world – to help us with [...]Read the full article
Heather Elaydi:Aligning domestic law to international law is not enough: women’s rights on paper must also be reflected by their lived experiences.Read the full article
Sharan Burrow:An urgent global effort is needed to ramp up production and distribution, including of new vaccines and vaccine combinations that may be needed to tackle new Covid variants – those which are already emerging and probably many more to [...]Read the full article
Chloé Maurel:Every year, US$88.6 billion leaves Africa in the form of illicit capital flight, according to the UN. Africa is affected more than all other continents, making it a net creditor to the rest of the world, contrary to the popular belief of an [...]Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:Morocco is continuing to score points in its overt bid to gain total control of Western Sahara, tipping the balance ever more clearly in its favour. The UN and the ‘Group of Friends’ have long since given up on jeopardising their ties with Rabat [...]Read the full article
Purva Gupta:“2021 is possibly the last chance for all actors to engage their heads, hands and hearts to make meaningful progress as we embark on the five-year countdown towards zero child labour in 2025.”Read the full article
Ernestas Oldyrevas :While producers need to take responsibility for the products they put on the market, only legislation can make sure that repairable devices become the new normal. And right to repair for all is how we get [...]Read the full article
Annick Berger:The international community gave itself ten years to protect biodiversity effectively. In 2020, the situation is catastrophic. The year 2021 must be the turning point in the fight to protect species and to combat climate change, with the [...]Read the full article
Ángela Moscarella:In Mexico there are sick people who refuse to go to public hospitals, or who delay going, because they are convinced that “people are being killed there” on government orders. What is behind this disbelief in the virus’s ability to kill and the [...]Read the full article
Tuscany Bell:Despite being so fundamental to society, waste sector workers are rarely thought about, or accounted for in policies. This is made disturbingly apparent when looking closer at the conditions they work in and the hardships they [...]Read the full article
Makbule Sahan:The failure of many firms to clearly demonstrate their respect for human rights during the Covid-19 pandemic not only highlights the limitations of voluntary corporate social responsibility standards, but flaws in the global supply chain model [...]Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:The EU’s current approach is not only censurable for all that it entails in terms of neglect of duty, non-compliance with international commitments and collaboration with the endless atrocities committed by mafias and governments, but also, and [...]Read the full article
Andrew Firmin:“The pandemic certainly makes elections harder, but it does not make them impossible, and there is an emerging body of good practice about how to hold elections during these unusual times.”Read the full article
Luis Linares:The socioeconomic policies in CA-4 countries (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua) are geared towards protecting business interests rather than building welfare states. The lack of opportunities leaves young people with only one way [...]Read the full article
Juan Antonio Sanz:Changes to the constitution have strengthened the Russian president’s position but his government faces a growing wave of discontent.Read the full article
Chloé Maurel:Should scientific knowledge be treated as a ‘public good’ or does it have a market value like anything else? The UN and its agencies have long argued the former.Read the full article
Joe Buckley:Vietnam has, rightly, been praised for its incredibly impressive and effective COVID-19 response. Largely missing from commentary on Vietnam’s coronavirus response, however, has been the important role of grassroots pressure from [...]Read the full article
Kékéli Kpognon:“As long as the conversation on racism fails to go deeper than the self-congratulating assessment that ‘Europe has been doing better than the US in issues of race’, little will be done to tackle historical and structural racism across the [...]Read the full article
Adrián Foncillas:Surveillance technology has helped to contain the spread of coronavirus, but it is essential that limits be set on how much information can be collected and for how long, to prevent governments from extending its use once the crisis is [...]Read the full article
Steve Rushton:This pandemic is only the most visible wave of the disaster that rampant, unchecked capitalism has led us to; we must take full advantage of this moment of reflection the coronavirus has afforded us. We must heal the [...]Read the full article
David Bacon:Migrant farm workers are extremely vulnerable to the coronavirus as social distancing is virtually “impossible under conditions H-2A workers typically experience in the United States”.Read the full article
Benjamin Hourticq:In response to the coronavirus pandemic, some large multinational corporations are putting their money and production capacities at the service of societies. But behind the scenes, they are working hard to ensure the preservation of the same [...]Read the full article
Lara Merling:The support of the World Bank and IMF for action on debt burdens and immediate crisis response measures is welcome, but does not indicate a significant shift away from the austerity, privatisation and deregulation that has increased inequality [...]Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:Sanctions have long had a bad reputation for both failing to achieve results and for causing much more suffering to the vulnerable civilian populations they ostensibly aim to protect than to the political and economic leaders they [...]Read the full article
Steve Rushton:Globally, the far-right is on the rise. Locally grounded politics can challenge the populists and deal with the systemic problems we all face.Read the full article
Nazaret Castro:In the mid-20th century, the so-called Green Revolution changed humanity’s relationship with agriculture. Three decades later, the model adapted to the financialisation of the economy and agribusiness was born. This went on to take root across [...]Read the full article
Crystal Simeoni:Neoliberalism decimated public healthcare in African countries. And yet they know how to fight the coronavirus effectively.Read the full article
Luis Linares:It’s a fact that always comes as a surprise. Guatemala, which ranks at the bottom of Latin America and the Caribbean in terms of development and prosperity, has an enviable unemployment rate: 2.5 per cent in 2019. In a developed country, this [...]Read the full article
Bethany Staunton:Migrants are an integral, if often exploited, part of the European workforce, and trade unions across the continent are making efforts to organise them. However, they face a complex set of challenges, particularly if the workers are [...]Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:Since 2011, grassroots mobilisation has taken on a decidedly political profile, calling not only for the removal of the ruler of the day, but also for the dismantling of a status quo that, at best, offers no more than the crumbs of paternalism [...]Read the full article
Sharan Burrow:“We have just 10 years to stabilise the planet for our own survival. We know that the pathway to high ambition is just transition, and trade unions can take credit for the broad recognition of this [...]Read the full article
Anna Byhovskaya:The OECD report is a timely reminder that healthy social dialogue is not a foe to productivity or progress since “the quality of the working environment is higher on average in countries with well-organised social partners and a large coverage of [...]Read the full article
Stan De Spiegelaere:Workers invest their labour on a daily basis in the companies they work in. This is an equally important investment which should therefore come with ownership rights.Read the full article
Evelyn Astor:“Financing social protection systems that are both adequate and sustainable is not a fantasy; it is merely a question of political will.”Read the full article
Alex Nkosi:The strengthening of national affiliates to champion the decent work agenda will go a long way to ensure that trade unions have a say on SDGs implementation at a national level.Read the full article
Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky:Can international financial institutions be deemed responsible for the human rights violations spawned by the austerity measures they advocate?Read the full article
Rashmee Roshan Lall:The point of a new travel model would be to forge the real linkages that enrich the visitor just as much as the people and the place they have visited. This has never been more important.Read the full article
Arnaud Zacharie:Ensuring tax justice at all levels would not only reduce inequality and address the democratic fatigue of citizens, but it would also free up significant financial resources for social and ecological [...]Read the full article
Anthony Bellanger:The growing contempt towards journalists around the world has prompted the IFJ to draw up a new global charter reinforcing the ethical standards governing the profession.Read the full article
Ruwan Subasinghe:Without the right to strike workers will not be able to effectively demand investment in new green jobs, training, income protection and other necessary measures for a fair and just transition.Read the full article
Mathilde Dorcadie:The critical state of our common natural heritage is all of our responsibility. The rainforest is burning because we’ve let it happen.Read the full article
Steve Rushton:“Putting peace front and centre of the Green New Deal offers a way to reverse the vicious cycle of arms, oil and war.”Read the full article
The Conversation:Focusing too much on individual responsibility can create social backlash and limit understanding of the main reasons for taking action and our collective ability to address these issues.Read the full article
Víctor Báez Mosqueira :“It is urgent, therefore, that we put the peace process in Colombia under the microscope, because in the last two years, instead of making progress, it has gone backwards. The sooner we realise that, and act accordingly, the better it will be for [...]Read the full article
Bert De Wel:“Workers have to speak up and organise. We have to make sure that our jobs, our businesses and our colleagues are ready for ambitious climate policies. This is a core union responsibility and it starts on the work [...]Read the full article
Nick Dearden:“We can beat climate change, use artificial intelligence to build a better world and restrain corporate power. But we can only do so by forming networks, locally, nationally and internationally.”Read the full article
Luca Visentini:The outcome of the elections will dictate whether the EU will make progress towards greater social equality and cohesion, or start to break up under the weight of national self-interests and [...]Read the full article
Klara Rydström :Menstruation clearly makes for a substantial part of life, so why is it still taboo in discussions of work environment and work-life balance?Read the full article
Leo Baunach:There is a crisis of multilateralism, rooted in decades of rising inequality and the favouring of profits over people. If changes are not made, the crisis of multilateralism will worsen and the ground on which the Bank stands will [...]Read the full article
Carmen Vizán Rodríguez:The decline in the labour share in the economy, linked to the shrinking of the state, globalisation, financialisation, technological change, corporate concentration and the fall in workers’ bargaining power, has major socioeconomic and political [...]Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:Aside from a few nuances and the uncertainties regarding the formation of a new government, the one overall conclusion we can draw from these elections is that we can expect to see more of the same, in other words, more fait accompli tactics [...]Read the full article
Miguel Ángel Martínez del Arco:The social and solidarity economy is a phenomenon that is gaining traction throughout the EU and the rest of the world. Although the 2008 global crisis has played a part in its progress, its origins date back to the mid-19th [...]Read the full article
Fatimah Kelleher :Orthodox economic models have failed us all, but women across Africa are resisting them and coming up with visionary alternatives.Read the full article
Bert De Wel:Plastic pollution not only threatens the job security of fishermen all around the world, it also endangers the food security and food safety of the whole planet.Read the full article
Carlos Malamud:All the components of a global crisis are present in Venezuela: the international community is involved or feels it has to take sides, and some observers are speaking of a return to the Cold War. To what extent is the current situation driven by [...]Read the full article
Japhet Moyo:Unless the government quickly and sincerely revives the social contract, labour unrest is likely to be a recurring feature of the months ahead.Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:Taking Syria as a point of reference, Russia, Iran, the USA, Israel, Turkey – all the players, regional and global – are moving their pieces on the Middle East chessboard. But does this bode well for the [...]Read the full article
Suraiya Zubair Banu:“For those of us who are not Sudanese or who live outside Sudan, the uprisings might seem hard to reach. But some of the tools we need to practice solidarity are already in our grasp.”Read the full article
Chloé Maurel:The ‘Declaration on the Rights of Peasants’ illustrates the concern within the United Nations, which has declared 2019 to 2028 ‘The Decade of Family Farming’.Read the full article
Philip Jennings:There is nothing complacent in the tone of the ILO Global Commission’s report on the future of work. Rejecting business as usual, it sows the seeds of hope for working people. The time has come for a reinvigorated social [...]Read the full article
Helen Lackner:Regardless of its weaknesses, the Stockholm Agreement is a first sign of hope for 29 million Yemenis who are desperately waiting for peace.Read the full article
Christina Colclough:“We are already seeing how autonomous systems are having a detrimental effect on workers. Especially those in non-unionised workplaces, where there are no check-and-balances in the form of organised labour, and no means to reach agreements to [...]Read the full article
Lenore Palladino:“Not only are workers left out of the productivity gains they help to create, the work they do is becoming less and less secure.”Read the full article
Karine Clément:For many Putin supporters seduced by his image as protector of ordinary people, the evidence is now clear: the interests of the working and middle classes count for little compared to those of the economic and financial [...]Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:“If it were not for the fact that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan saw this terrible episode as an unexpected opportunity to try and strengthen his hand in relations with both Riyadh and Washington, the disappearance of the journalist would barely have [...]Read the full article
Glauber Sezerino :“Of all the forms of resistance seen over the last few weeks, one in particular seems the most capable of confronting the fascist menace threatening Brazil: the active and on-going resistance of women, particularly of black [...]Read the full article
Juan Antonio Sanz:The bid for European defence rests on greater independence from NATO and the development of its own programmes for the collective security of its members. The idea is that such military cooperation should also contribute to advancing the complex [...]Read the full article
Clean Clothes Campaign:“It is crystal clear that neither minimum wages nor workers’ actual wages are anywhere near any living wage benchmark, and H&M has the responsibility to close the gap.”Read the full article
Andrew Firmin:“We need to see direct democracy, including referendums, as presenting crucial tipping points for participation – as opportunities to mobilise and recruit support for progressive causes, build new coalitions and show civil society’s work at its [...]Read the full article
Peter Murphy:The mobilisation of the international community to stand in solidarity with the Filipino people against the Duterte administration and its support from President Trump is a major objective of the Tribunal. Trade unions have a strong role to play [...]Read the full article
Claude Kabemba:While the new mining code may have ensured the government get more returns, recent developments suggest these will remain in a few select hands, and that deals continue to be made between powerful individuals behind closed [...]Read the full article
César Muñoz Acebes:The large influx of immigrants has a clear impact on a small town like Pacaraima, but Brazilians should direct their outrage at the Maduro government – not its victims.Read the full article
Emily Kawano :Rather than making a virtue out of the pursuit of calculated self-interest, profit maximisation and competition, this economy nurtures our capacity for solidarity, cooperation, reciprocity, mutual aid, altruism, caring, sharing, compassion and [...]Read the full article
Rami G. Khouri:Rebuilding citizen trust in political institutions will require both economic and political measures in a genuinely consultative context, rather than the usual top-down edicts from the government or benevolent gestures from the [...]Read the full article
Antonello Mangano:As these workers are often employed by the caporalato (gangmasters) who run a system of minimum payment and maximum exploitation, the victims of labour exploitation are often unrecorded by official [...]Read the full article
Andrés Ortega:Many people in Silicon Valley do not want to participate in programs for the battlefield or promote excessive war or security technology. The movement against autonomous weapons, the so-called “killer robots”, is growing, and not only in the [...]Read the full article
Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie :Transforming these states of fragility isn’t the job of just the woman or man at the top – all of society has to dig in.Read the full article
Chloé Maurel:“There is a deeply unjust imbalance: a victim of a multinational cannot apply to any court for justice, while a multinational can turn against states via private arbitration tribunals.”Read the full article
Marta Torre-Schaub:“Going to court to settle a planetary issue not dealt with by international law, that’s where the novelty lies. Judges are also breaking new ground by agreeing to hear cases of this kind.”Read the full article
Vicky Cann:A new report by Corporate Europe Observatory shows that accountancy firms Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers, “the Big Four”, are omnipresent in the European Union’s policy processes for tackling corporate tax avoidance and they work [...]Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:It is in nobody’s interest to provoke a direct confrontation in the duel being fought by Riyadh and Tehran. While Riyadh is more protected, Tehran has greater military power, considerable human resources and an iron [...]Read the full article
Jan Willem Goudriaan :“The Commission has effectively launched an unprecedented two-pronged attack on workers’ rights by both denying the equal treatment of workers in central government and the private sector, and by undermining the function of social [...]Read the full article
Jane Barrett:It is not a ‘choice’ to work long hours, with no breaks and no vacation time. For most informal workers it is inescapable. It is not a problem that can be self-regulated.Read the full article
Sharan Burrow:“Policies that support privatisation, constraints on minimum wages and collective bargaining, cuts to pensions and other social protection measures simply mean the destruction of people’s hope and [...]Read the full article
Federico Steinberg:Obsessed with cutting its bilateral trade deficits, the US fears that in the absence of pressure and threats, the EU will not agree to sit down at the negotiating table. The current trade dispute is being played out against the backdrop of two [...]Read the full article
Peter Scherrer:The shock of 1968 prompted Europe’s ruling class to develop a more sophisticated and determined strategy to maintain its power and wealth, reflected in the clamp-down on trade unions, student movements and left-wing [...]Read the full article
Ricardo Gutierrez:“It is not the role of the government to decide what is true or untrue. Censorship cannot counter disinformation.”Read the full article
Peter Bakvis:In World Development Report’s future world of work, where firms have been relieved of the burden of contributing to social security and have the flexibility to pay wages as low as they want and fire at will, the report insists that trade unions [...]Read the full article
Laura Alfers :“Adequate and quality childcare is not just a critical need for the children involved. It also determines women’s participation in the labour force and the type of work they can take on.”Read the full article
Nicolò Giangrande:Franco was a prominent dissenting voice in a racist and classist society, which made her a target. But her death has triggered a new wave of activism, just at the start of a very long and uncertain presidential [...]Read the full article
Jennifer Cobbe:Every time you use the internet you are likely the unwitting subject of dozens of experiments trying to figure out how to most effectively extract money from you.Read the full article
Andrea Iossa:The average period a worker spends in a warehouse is three years, after which the body can no longer sustain the pace of work, leading to his or her resignation.Read the full article
Angelo Boccato :Berlusconi is now seen by many as an elder statesman and a moderate leader who is able to keep populists in check.Read the full article
Kimaya de Silva:Women migrant workers face extreme forms of social control in Saudi Arabia. One Sri Lankan woman shares her story of everyday resistance despite serious constraints.Read the full article
Mindy Ran:Nearly half of all female journalists across the world face direct and indirect forms of violence, not only because of the nature of their work, but also because of their gender.Read the full article
Makbule Sahan:“The time has come to close this major gap in international human rights law and to end the impunity for corporate human rights abuses.”Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:Essentially, in this macabre zero sum game, it is important to understand that Libya today is a highly divided territory in which nobody really represents anybody, and in which the majority of the actors on scene are seeking solely to make off [...]Read the full article
Kiri Kankhwende:Arming the police will not make Britain safer, but could exacerbate existing inequalities in the justice system and increase the risk of further black deaths in custody.Read the full article
Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie :The growing hardline stance towards immigration is a slippery slope with potentially disastrous consequences – not just for migrants and refugees, but for the economies that benefit from the skills and labour they [...]Read the full article
Daniel Bertossa:“By shifting profits to low-tax and high-secrecy countries, away from the places where the work is carried out, companies can argue there are no profits to increase wages. They can also justify job [...]Read the full article
Mary Wareham:No technological improvements can solve the fundamental challenge to humanity that will come from delegating a life-and-death decision to a machine.Read the full article
Santi Carneri Tamaryn:The Ayoreo people from Paraguay are the Guardians of the Gran Chaco, the second largest forest in south America. They live in a country where the main national income accounts for the deforestation of the land to export wood and charcoal, to [...]Read the full article
Stephanie Ghislain:At a European level, one can already notice a slowdown in trade-related measures linked to animal welfare regulations. And yet, Europeans want more animal protection.Read the full article
Revathi Ramachandran:Lack of exclusive breastfeeding has been shown to be a drain on family resources, but also for the extra cost of illness and the lost wages due to absences associated with child illness. Breastfeeding contributes to a more stable [...]Read the full article
Ruwan Subasinghe:“Heightened legal accountability means that leads firms and buyers can no longer afford to have a blind spot in their transport and logistics supply chains.”Read the full article
Juan Pablo Cardenal:“The principle of legality is fundamental to modern democracies precisely because of the need to prevent someone being able to claim they are representative of a so-called ‘democratic majority’ in order to control power outside the scope of [...]Read the full article
Nazaret Castro:Under capitalism in the era of globalisation and offshoring, the design and retail distribution stages dominate the value chain, at the expense of the production stage. The result is ever declining working [...]Read the full article
Pitcho Womba Konga:“Openly recognising the tragedies caused by colonialism would be a big step forward towards ‘living together’ ”.Read the full article
Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie :Sierra Leone has a complex, systemic problem on its hands that, at this late stage, defies quick fixes or well-funded projects that attempt to deal with issues on a piecemeal basis.Read the full article
Charlotte O’Brien:“When the imbalance on the Brexit team first came to light, a House of Lords committee asked David Davis to clarify how many women were on his team. He did not know. He had not noticed.”Read the full article
Leo Baunach:Unlike other multilateral development banks, the IDB has not taken steps to ensure that funded projects protect the basic rights of workers.Read the full article
Ciaran Cross:Under the new US administration, the contradiction between the US’ international labour policy and domestic violations of workers’ fundamental rights may become even more glaring.Read the full article
Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky:“Economic reform programmes should undergo human rights and social impact assessments. Such assessments should be carried out in consultation with affected rights holders and civil society.”Read the full article
Tamara Adrián:“The fact is that the government of Nicolás Maduro has decided, again, to change the rules of the game. It is using electoral game theory to carry out constitutional fraud.”Read the full article
Gilbert Cyasionne:Education, supposedly the means to the humanist ideal of emancipation and instruction for all, has been the subject of successive reforms imposed by the European Union, which have in reality made economic competitiveness the primary [...]Read the full article
Martin Todd:Do we want a resource-starved prison system which focuses on incarceration and control instead of rehabilitation? Or can we take the ‘high road’ toward social justice, cohesion and public security?Read the full article
Paola Simonetti:Based on rights and democratic ownership, the Decent Work Agenda is the foundation for sustainable development, as opposed to palliative interventions.Read the full article
Elena B. Stavrevska:“The attack on CEU has been framed as a measure ‘to protect the nation’ rather than something which jeopardises academic freedom.”Read the full article
Djenab Diallo:“It would appear women’s rights are reaching a global crisis point. If governments are truly committed to ending FGM by 2030, much more action will need to be taken.”Read the full article
Claire Courteille-Mulder:At a time when many challenge globalisation over inequalities, social rights provide the foundations to protect the most vulnerable and build a fairer world.Read the full article
Ruwan Subasinghe:It is clear that global supply chains cannot and will not be sustainable unless they are based on the principles of decent work.Read the full article
Chidi King:As well as subsidising the global economy through cheap, undervalued paid labour, women are doing so through their unpaid labour.Read the full article
Monica Frassoni:“It is possible to stand for Europe, for justice, diversity, environmental protection – and still defeat the far right and win an election.”Read the full article
Juan Pablo Cardenal:"China’s investments and business operations in many countries replicate its own development model: prioritising economic growth above all else, with no regard for the side effects, no respect for standards and no time for [...]Read the full article
Theo Morrissey:There is a blatant contradiction between the use of employment creation as the primary tool for attempting to alleviate poverty and the CDC’s contempt for workers’ rights.Read the full article
Jean-Paul Marthoz:The challenge is to revive genuinely progressive journalism capable of reaching the "forgotten people of the TV news" who are drawn by Donald Trump’s national populism.Read the full article
Chloé Maurel:If the UN is to overcome the crisis and the uncertain situation it faces, the organisation must reform, and its member states will have to give it more powerRead the full article
Ashraful Azad:Of the five acts of genocide mentioned in the 1948 Convention on Genocide, four have been committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar since 1978Read the full article
Bryan Carter:This is not a moment to be afraid of Trump or let his prejudiced ideas suddenly become acceptable just because he’s presidentRead the full article
Keegan Elmer:“Compared to other workers, teachers are highly organised and capable of persistent campaigns to address long-standing grievances”Read the full article
Carlos Carnero:“The worst thing democrats could do is to try to tackle the populists with the policy of appeasement that led us to the catastrophe of the 1930s”Read the full article
Adriana Ruiz-Restrepo:“Some forgive, others don’t want to forgive, but most damaging of all is the publicity over-simplifying the public”Read the full article
Antonio Lisboa:Brazil’s elite still does not accept that black, poor and indigenous people, women, homosexuals and slums dwellers have the right to respect and dignityRead the full article
Alexandre Niyungeko:For over a year now we have been helpless in face of the denial of the public’s right to information, yet it is guaranteed by the ConstitutionRead the full article
Angelo Tino:Sixty years ago, when so many people lost their lives, a common - if imperfect - European framework of rules did not existRead the full article
Carlos Carnero:Recovering European workers’ support for the EU is essential to strengthening the Community project and offering a fact-based response to populist attacksRead the full article
Anthony Bellanger:The record levels of violence targeting media professionals is having an adverse impact on media coverage of important eventsRead the full article
