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
Following a decade of struggle, pensioners from Africa’s largest alumina plant and their families are finally able to benefit from their social security rights.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
How Ireland’s ‘Great Reshuffle’ could benefit women and older workers
Maeve O’Sullivan:
The world is reeling from recent tech job losses and the global recession. But Ireland is well positioned to respond to these challenges if it can address its labour market inequality.Read the full article
Maeve O’Sullivan:
The world is reeling from recent tech job losses and the global recession. But Ireland is well positioned to respond to these challenges if it can address its labour market inequality.Read the full article
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
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
For the past five years, workers in Latin America’s largest country have faced job insecurity, rising unemployment and weakened trade unions.Read the full article
When excessive levels of debt are reached, the dialogue between creditors and debtors is often broken. In Belgium, debt mediators are at hand to re-establish this dialogue and enable both parties to reach an agreement.Read the full article
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
“In creating green champions, our aim is to come up with environmental experts at the trade union level and to build the capacity for participation and in advocating for a just transition in Kenya.”Read the full article
“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 that Colombia needs [...]Read the full article
Young people aged between 15 and 24 are likely to experience the greatest difficulties in finding work in the years ahead. Their transition to their first job and, more generally, to making a life of their own is expected to take even [...]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
“We’ve always said everyone is just one paycheck away from an eviction. In March people saw that the thing the crazy housing people have been saying is true.”Read the full article
“The Palestinian labour market continues to present a grim picture. Unemployment is rampant and protection is failing. Stifled by occupation, it can meet neither the needs nor the aspirations of the Palestinian people.”Read the full article
Bosnia’s 25-year-olds are the same age as their country’s constitution. But with the promise of “peace, justice, tolerance, and reconciliation” fading with each passing year, many young people are looking to start new lives elsewhere.Read the full article
Can Bolivia’s upcoming elections rescue its hijacked democracy?
Víctor Báez Mosqueira :
For almost a year now, Bolivians have been enduring massacres, repression, detentions and exile. According the Defensoría del Pueblo, the de facto government “has committed crimes against humanity.” A country crying out for a return to the rule of law will finally get a chance to vote on 18 [...]Read the full article
Víctor Báez Mosqueira :
For almost a year now, Bolivians have been enduring massacres, repression, detentions and exile. According the Defensoría del Pueblo, the de facto government “has committed crimes against humanity.” A country crying out for a return to the rule of law will finally get a chance to vote on 18 [...]Read the full article
“The coronavirus has been a major setback and highlighted our fragilities. Buy local, sell local is the new imperative.”Read the full article
Can Covid-19 provide an incentive for companies to create better supply chains?
Stijn Sintubin:
Now is the time to look closer than ever at how to improve the conditions for workers in global supply chains. The cost of decades of blind pursuit of profit has been paid for by the workers.Read the full article
Stijn Sintubin:
Now is the time to look closer than ever at how to improve the conditions for workers in global supply chains. The cost of decades of blind pursuit of profit has been paid for by the workers.Read the full article
“We’re paying five times more than domestic students to receive the same education. But when it comes to a pandemic like this, international students’ rights and benefits are almost completely disregarded.”Read the full article
The pandemic has dealt a fatal blow to an already struggling sector. Those who will suffer the most are the anonymous workers who are trying to adapt to this uncertain, new reality. If arts and culture are essential, what should be done to ensure their [...]Read the full article
The Dayton Accords, which ended the war in 1995, reserve privileges for the country’s three largest ethnic groups – Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats – or its ‘constituent peoples’, whilst depriving ‘others’ of the right to hold public office.Read the full article
There is a real sense that the coronavirus crisis could reinvigorate a movement that has been significantly weakened by four decades of neoliberalism.Read the full article
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 would translate into full employment and an increase [...]Read the full article
