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…
FIFA still missing human rights goals as tournament starts in Saudi Arabia, a year after Qatar World Cup “When I came here, I had to face violence, one day I was feeling pain in my body, so I started taking rest for a while, at the same time the supervisor came and abused me and slapped me…
This interview is conducted by ICoCA, a multi-stakeholder initiative formed in 2013 to ensure that providers of private security services respect human rights and humanitarian law. In this interview, Mustafa Qadri sheds light on the working conditions of private security personnel, particularly in the Gulf region, and delves into the repercussions of these conditions on…
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…
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