Precolonial elites used to enslave the farmers of rural Chad, now they hold them in debt bondage. How much has changed, how much has not?
A nineteenth century drive to protect the morality of white women created the concept of ‘human trafficking’, and its legacies live on in border control systems and slavery-based campaigning.
The recent and intensifying push by governments to promote a concept of “digital sovereignty” represents a real and rising threat to the internet as a force for good.
Why not use a medium at the heart of technological changes to express critical ideas on socio-political developments?
Deeply rooted gender and class hierarchies mean that gender-based violence does not end at home - women are also vulnerable to workplace abuse.
Martin Docherty-Hughes MP grilled the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on a secret fine charged to the DUP's dark-money Brexit funders.
There is a growing atmosphere of hatred in which anyone who opposes the current government is labeled the ‘worst sort’, or even ‘Soviet murderers’.
Instead of opening a conversation about workplace sexual harassment, the Italian debate has focused on shaming those who come forward.
A ‘special economic zone’ exists in southeastern Italy where the rules and standards of work do not apply.
EU leaders gathering at the Social Summit in Gothenburg this Friday need to adopt concrete solutions and reach specific targets regarding the European Pillar of Social Rights.
Work can have many benefits for children. Policy responses need to understand and foster those benefits, not succumb to biases that assume all work is bad.
On the occasion of the IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour, it is time to listen to working children on what works for them – and what doesn’t.
