Global Worker Rights Increasingly Under Attack During Pandemic

Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development: the COVID-19 ...

Mr. Alfarargi said that the COVID-19 pandemic had triggered the largest global economic crisis in more than a century, leading to a dramatic ...

COVID-19 and Human Rights

In some countries, health workers – those risking their lives on the frontline to combat the disease. – have been ostracised or even attacked.

What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the ...

... more EEO laws (e.g., “direct threat” under the ADA). Because changes in such ... laws related to workplace discrimination apply during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Data show major strike activity increased in 2021 but remains below ...

As the pandemic and pandemic-related supports for workers recede, workers idled by the virus will return in increasing numbers to the labor ...

Why has COVID-19 been especially harmful for working women?

Those low-wage women who did not suffer job losses were primarily in frontline occupations, such as healthcare support and grocery workers. These women ...

Gender Equality | UN Global Compact

Workers in the informal economy lost as much as 60% of their income during the first month of the pandemic. About 740 million women work in the informal economy ...

Attacks against health-care personnel must stop, especially as the ...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, such attacks were increasingly documented in clinics and hospitals worldwide.3, 4 Attacks on health-care workers ...

Full article: The state of human rights in a (post) COVID-19 world

At the international level, the crisis has generated more acrimony than cooperation, as countries and international organizations have struggled ...

Global Rights Index 2024 - International Trade Union Confederation

In a deeply worrying development this year, 49% of countries arbitrarily arrested or detained trade union members, up from 46% in 2023, while more than four in ...

COVID-19 and gender equality: Countering the regressive effects

By our calculation, women's jobs are 1.8 times more vulnerable to this crisis than men's jobs. Women make up 39 percent of global employment but ...

COVID-19 Guidance | OHCHR

At the core of States' measures to support companies in the crisis should be protection of workers, particularly those in the most precarious situations. For ...

The World of Work and COVID-19 - the United Nations

during any crisis and even more so during the current crisis ... the expense of workers' rights and welfare in their operations and in their ...

5 ways women and girls have been the hardest hit by Covid-19

The pandemic has disproportionately pushed them out of employment, reversing decades of progress on their participation in the labour force. It is estimated ...

Attacks against health-care personnel must stop, especially as the ...

This response is likely to exacerbate already unprecedented COVID-19-related stress and burnout that health-care workers and their families are experiencing in ...

COVID-19 and its economic toll on women: The story behind the ...

The most impacted industries have more women ... Women are overrepresented in many of the industries hardest hit by COVID-19, such as food service ...

COVID-19 BRIEF: Impact on Women and Girls – USGLC

At the global level, 35% of women and 32% of men reported employment loss at the start of the pandemic in March 2020. This fell to 26 percent and 20 percent ...

Pandemic and Human Rights in the Americas

The Americas and the world are now facing an unprecedented global health emergency caused by the pandemic of the COVID-19 virus. Central to the ...

COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker - Data Futures Exchange

This measure began in February 15, 2020. In Algeria, women comprise slightly more than 60% of the workers employed in the healthcare sector. Algeria. Labour ...

Measuring the shadow pandemic: Violence against women during ...

Women who experienced or know other women who experienced violence since COVID-19, were more likely to be food insecure. 2 in 5 women said that ...

COVID-19 and world trade - WTO

One of the most effective means of addressing this crisis is through timely, accurate information. ... in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. These tables will be ...