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Global Worker Rights Increasingly Under Attack During Pandemic


Global Worker Rights Increasingly Under Attack During Pandemic

107 countries in 2019 excluded workers from the right to establish or join a trade union, up from 92 in 2018. Eighty-five percent of countries violated the ...

COVID illuminates global inequalities in workers' rights and working ...

Workers in the United States have few employment rights, and most employers do not recognise trade unions. It is quite easy for employers to hire and fire ...

Locked down and in limbo: The global impact of COVID-19 on ...

Labour rights violations in the form of discrimination against migrant workers were reportedly widespread globally, often expressed in the form of differential ...

Covid-19 and Garment Workers - Worker Rights Consortium

The economic fallout of Covid-19 exacerbated existing inequities within global supply chains and revealed a production system that is badly broken—in terms of ...

Global: Health workers silenced, exposed and attacked

Alarmingly, Amnesty International documented cases where health workers who raise safety concerns in the context of the COVID-19 response have ...

Covid-19 and human and labour rights concerns | Article - UN PRI

Protecting Workers' Rights through the COVID-19 Crisis · Supporting Suppliers and Building Resilient Supply Chains · COVID-19 and Privacy Rights ...

The Global Labor Movement's Response in the Face of the COVID ...

As the pandemic has spread, the global labor movement has continued to communicate worker and public health priorities and defend working families. On April 2, ...

COVID-19 and the world of work - International Labour Organization

The world of work has been profoundly affected by the global virus pandemic. In addition to the threat to public health, the economic and social disruption ...

Ten years of workers' rights under attack: 2023 ITUC Global Rights ...

In the Asia-Pacific region, the incidence of violence against working people rose from 43% of countries in 2022 to 48% in 2023 and from 42% to ...

Global Rights Index 2022 shows workers' rights violations

Abuse of workers' rights reached record highs in 2022. Where are things getting better and worse? · The right to strike is increasingly ...

Why unions are good for workers—especially in a crisis like COVID-19

Why it matters: A badly broken system governing collective bargaining has eroded unions and worker power more broadly, contributing to both the ...

MENA: Workers' rights on the line during COVID-19

The virus has exposed vulnerabilities in how our society is structured – that we cannot survive without the labour of those working historically ...

Theme 1: protecting workers' rights through the Covid-19 crisis | Article

What is the issue? · Exposure to heightened risk of forced labour · OHS risks – impossibility of social distancing in the workplace, access to ...

Union busting & unfair dismissals: Garment workers during COVID-19

International unions and labour rights groups engaged systematically with the brands in ... and labour rights under the guise of their response to the pandemic.

Workers rights continue to erode – what can we do to restore them?

The pandemic has highlighted inequality and although the worst impacts on jobs and human rights have been in the developing world, Burrow says ...

Not in this together: how supermarkets became the pandemic's ...

While inequality of power and value was already deeply unfair before the pandemic, it has now reached shocking proportions. COVID-19 has cost global workers ...

The world faces a pandemic of human rights abuses in the wake of ...

The pandemic has also made peace efforts more difficult, constraining the ability to conduct negotiations, exacerbating humanitarian needs and ...

Global Worker Rights - AFL-CIO

Our brothers and sisters in other countries face many of the same challenges: a lack of fundamental labor rights, precarious work, poverty, income inequality ...

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.