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As the United Nations General Assembly prepares to elect members to the UN Human Rights Council for the 2027–2029 term on 13 October, Equidem joins fellow members of the Coalition on Labour Justice for Migrants in the Gulf in calling for greater scrutiny of Kuwait’s record on migrant workers’ rights. Kuwait is one of four…

At a Bali Process workshop on ’Addressing Irregular Migration: Perspectives and Lessons Learned from Regularisation Programmes’, Equidem Founder and CEO Mustafa Qadri spoke about why irregular migration cannot be understood or addressed only through an enforcement lens. Drawing on Equidem’s work with migrant workers across major migration corridors, Mustafa highlighted three critical issues: 🔹 Irregularity…

On 26 August 2026, catastrophic flash floods struck Nepal, sweeping through communities along the Bhote Koshi and Trishuli river systems. In the days since, more than 1,200 people have been reported dead, thousands remain missing, and families have lost homes, livelihoods and essential belongings. Among those affected are families and communities of Nepali migrant workers…

A Victory Built by Workers  Every generation of workers has had to confront a new language invented to deny an old truth: work is work, control is control, and those who profit from labour must be accountable for the conditions under which it is performed.  For garment workers, global fashion brands have long relied on…

An interactive dashboard mapping heat stress risks for the workers making the World Cup possible Behind every stadium, training facility, and match-day spectacle are workers building, maintaining, securing, cleaning, transporting, and servicing the FIFA World Cup 2026. Equidem’s FIFA 2026 Heat Risk Observatory, developed in collaboration with students from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences,…

Statement by Equidem  “We have been abandoned twice, once by the country we worked in, and  once by the country we belong to. I lost not just my job, but my hope too.  There is no certainty waiting for me, and I do not know what to do or where to  begin.”  — Mohammad Malik,…

There are moments in history when everything familiar seems to come undone. And then there are moments when, from the fractures of that disorder, new forms of courage, solidarity and collective power begin to emerge. We are living through both. Across continents, people who labour for a living are confronting pressures that are no longer…

Equidem raises serious concerns over the mass layoffs of more than 1,100 workers in Nairobi, Kenya, following the termination of contracts between Meta and its contractor Sama. These redundancies occur in the wake of sustained judicial scrutiny of labour practices in Kenya’s technology supply chains. Rather than using this moment to correct documented harms, Meta’s…

Written by Roxanne O’Connell, Head of Programmes  Beginning a New Conversation  Last week in Nairobi, I had the privilege of participating in my first convening for Equidem after taking on the role of Head of Programmes. It was a meaningful milestone for me personally, but more importantly it marked the beginning of a new area of work at Equidem focused on improving the systems…