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, endangers public service workers and undermines the [...]Read the full article
The global digital and energy transition is increasing the demand for minerals. At the same time, resistance against projects is rising, support networks are being woven and initiatives to guarantee the rights of communities and decent working conditions are being [...]Read the full article
This photo documentary chronicles the lives of Senegalese migrants who return home after leaving their country in search of a better life.Read the full article
After a 16-year legal battle, a court has ruled to dismiss the case of chlordecone poisoning in the French Antilles. This pesticide, used in the banana plantations from 1972 to 1993, despite its proven toxicity, continues to claim lives. But, be it in Paris or the French overseas departments, [...]Read the full article
Every year, thousands of ships around the world reach the end of their lives. The vast majority meet their end in South Asia, where, every year, almost 70 per cent of the vessels are dismantled on just three beaches, often with no regard for the workers’ health and [...]Read the full article
Unions and many environmentalists want to see all waste workers – including waste pickers – in decent working conditions, while ensuring that upstream workers are not left behind.Read the full article
Two years after the fires burned roughly 15 per cent of its surface area, inhabitants of Evia, Greece’s second largest island, are doing their best to move forward. Solidarity still plays an essential role in reconstruction efforts, just as it did when the tragedy was [...]Read the full article
Between 2,500 and 3,000 workers have come together to file a case in Scotland against James Finlay Kenya, accusing the company of creating the terrible working conditions that have caused them life-limiting musculoskeletal injuries.Read the full article
In March 2022, after 18 years of judicial wrangling, the mainly female workforce at the Radio Corporation of America Taiwanese factories won a lawsuit for recognition of their occupational diseases as well as damages for the anxiety caused to [...]Read the full article
Tuscany Bell:“Long-term care facilities are subsidised to a large extent by public money. When financial risks aimed solely at increasing profitability do not pay off, it is the state which must ultimately step in to ensure the welfare of care recipients, once again from the public [...]Read the full article
Recognition is lacking when it comes to the ailments and diseases associated with agricultural work, such as those caused by exposure to potentially toxic substances. And the workers affected are often faced with barriers to health [...]Read the full article
The use of solid fuels is damaging to health and the environment. Despite the availability of clean cooking solutions and technologies, the prospects for improvement are compromised by successive crises, Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine, and a lack of structural investment. In many countries, [...]Read the full article
Workers and trade unions have long argued that the management of dependency care – like health and education – should be public. They argue that as public sector employees, not only would their working conditions improve but so too would the care they [...]Read the full article
Like women, the elderly and people with mental health issues, the working poor and people with multiple jobs are also likely to sleep worse, wake up worse, make more mistakes and sustain more injuries.Read the full article
A group of veterinarians and health workers are collecting and analysing samples from animals and humans at a tourist hotspot in Uganda to determine the presence of pathogens and viruses with the potential to cause a global health [...]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
Hundreds of dockworkers at Greece’s largest port are demanding better working conditions and a new collective agreement. Ever since the Chinese state-owned enterprise COSCO became the majority owner of the Piraeus Port Authority, workers there have had fewer rights and [...]Read the full article
In the DRC, slaughterhouses lack the equipment required to ensure that the cows slaughtered there are in good health, which poses a danger to both consumers and slaughterhouse workers.Read the full article
Teleworking has expanded rapidly and haphazardly due to the pandemic. The risks include teleworking being confused with work-life balance and certain costs being placed on workers.Read the full article
Sandstorms can paralyse an entire economy, cause road accidents, ground aircraft, and jam radar and electronic systems, with consequences for agriculture that are still poorly assessed as well as serious long-term health impacts.Read the full article
“During Covid, the government provided support for the formal sector, but the informal sector had nothing: construction, brick kilns, nothing. This is inhumane.”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
Waste pickers call for their voices to be heard in negotiations for a global treaty on plastics that some compare to the Paris climate agreement.Read the full article