Feature: PBS News Hour

As world leaders gather for UN Climate Week, the scale of the climate crisis demands urgent and ambitious action. Yet climate ambition stripped of social justice risks becoming an empty promise. The transition to renewable energy cannot be called “just” if it reproduces exploitation, deepens inequality, or silences the very people whose labour makes it…

This week, I’ll be walking into the International Labour Conference with a delegation of gig and platform workers from across the Global Majority. For many of them, this will be the first time their voices reach the corridors of international power. For me, it represents everything we’ve been building toward at Equidem—a moment when the…

Israel and Palestinian armed groups must respect the protected status of migrant workers as civilians under international humanitarian law, Equidem said today following the release of migrant worker and other hostages taken by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups during the October 7th attacks on Israel. Migrant workers from countries including Thailand, Cambodia, Nepal and the Philippines have been…

Letter To COP28 Participating Governments re UAE Human Rights and Climate Concerns:  September 13, 2023 To the Participating Governments at the COP28 Climate Conference, We write as a global network of organizations with grave human rights concerns regarding the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), host of the 2023 COP28 climate negotiations. We support…

FIFA has already failed workers in spaces predominantly taken up by men, and women are, as ever, left even further behind. As another major sporting event kicks off with all eyes on the players, Equidem has uncovered rampant exploitation of women workers that produce FIFA apparel.  “We have a daily target to reach. The supervisor…