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Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Context of Climate Change:  Access to information on climate change and human rights Renewable Energy Introduction  Equidem is a human and labour rights not-for-profit working globally to promote the rights of marginalised communities, accountability for serious violations, and building…

Five years ago, on June 21, 2019, the General Conference of the International Labour Organization adopted the ILO Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (C190) and Recommendation 206 (R206). Today, together with trade unionists, workers, and allies from around the world, Equidem celebrates this landmark standard, articulating the rights of all workers to be free from…

Conditions that may amount to forced labour have been reported by workers at Noon, the largest online retailer in the Gulf and one of the biggest sponsors of Newcastle United Football Club (NUFC) according to research carried out by Equidem. Equidem investigators spoke with 47 current and former Noon workers in the Kingdom of Saudi…

Labor Rights Groups Launch ‘Coalition on Labor Justice for Migrants in the Gulf’ GENEVA– Leading labor rights organizations, migrant rights organizations, and independent trade unions today announced the launch of the Coalition on Labor Justice for Migrants in the Gulf, the first-ever global labor coalition to demand fundamental labor and human rights for the millions…

The deadly and ruinous flooding in Kenya that has killed nearly 200 people, pushed approximately 200,000 from their homes, destroyed farms and livelihoods and shuttered schools is yet another warning that climate and labour justice are intertwined.   Around the world extreme weather — in the form of floods, wildfires, droughts and other phenomena— will continue…

The International Labour Organization (ILO), the UN agency that sets global labour standards, recently endorsed the centrality of living wages to social and economic development, justice, and human dignity.   Minimum wages all too frequently amount to nothing more than poverty-level pay since they mark the lowest possible wage permitted. The concept of a “living…

With approximately 15 percent of Nepalese working abroad, lack of reform and institutional memory has serious consequences – including death. Rameshwar Nepal This month the government of Nepal changed its Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security for the third time in a little over a year. While one wishes the new incumbent, Rastriya Swatantra…

Cynthia Nyaboke is 25 years old. She is from a farming community in Murang’a County in central Kenya, but was forced  to move abroad to the United Arab Emirates for work because climate-change induced extreme flooding made life unsustainable. Her parents paid her recruitment fee, equivalent to $800. When she arrived in Dubai, she found…