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Tackling the Covid-19 pandemic at the workplace

“From the very first cases of infection in Wuhan, the Covid-19 pandemic has been about workplace health and safety. The virus has shone a spotlight on the inadequate protection of …

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Extending social security to workers in the informal economy: Lessons from international experience

“For most workers in the informal economy, the lack of social protection is a challenge not only in their daily struggles to make ends meet but in their aspirations to …

Decisiones adoptadas por el Consejo de Administración de OIT en junio de este año, relativas al envío de memorias para el Estudio General sobre Empleo y al Informe General para 2021.

El la sesión realizada el 04 de junio de este año, por el Consejo de Administración de OIT, se tomaron importantes decisiones relativas al envío de memorias de los Estados …

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MODEL ARBITRATION CLAUSES FOR THE RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES UNDER ENFORCEABLE BRAND AGREEMENTS

“The 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse disaster in Bangladesh, as well as numerous other industrial tragedies and labor rights abuses have exposed the need for brand and supplier accountability for …

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Seafarers Trapped Serving Global Supply Chains amounts to Egregious Abuse of Human Rights: States Must Fulfill their Duty to Protect

“As the Covid-19 pandemic and the travel restrictions put in place to attempt containment drag on, around 200,000 merchant seafarers are trapped aboard ships in violation of international law. Each …

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ILO Violence and Harassment Convention will enter into force in June 2021

Fiji has become the second country to ratify the ILO’s Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190)  , after Uruguay  did so on 12 June . With the deposit of this second ratification, the …

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ILO and UNICEF Webinar: COVID-19 – Protect children from child labour, now more than ever!

When: 25 June 2020 Where: On Line – 10:00 – 11:30am (GMT+8) Malaysia Participants interested in joining the event can register here The ILO and UNICEF have partnered to co-organize the …

June 25, 2020

Chatham House Webinar: Healthy Civic Space in a Global Health Crisis – What Role for the Business Sector?

1 July 2020 – 2:00pm to 3:00pm To express your interest in attending, please follow this link. Bennett Freeman, Author, Shared Space Under Pressure: Business Support for Civic Freedoms and Human Rights Defenders Idayat Hassan, …

July 1, 2020

AFL-CIO: Annual Celebration for the George Meany-Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award Ceremony

Please join the officers of the AFL-CIO on June 30th at 10:30am EDT for our annual celebration for the George Meany-Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award Ceremony. We will honor the Civil Human Rights …

June 30, 2020 – January 1, 1970
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‘With labour exploitation worsening during Covid, tech giants must allow workers to join unions’

““I even have had to pay [my employer] money at the end of the month instead of getting money.” That’s a quote from Batsa, a 25-year-old Nepalese worker in an …

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