As the UN meets in Geneva to discuss human rights the tea workers in Guwahati are standing up for theirs.
Raid and rescue operations are widely portrayed as heroic efforts to save the innocent from the evil. But, as this BTS series makes clear, the reality is not so clear-cut. Español
Regardless of how one feels about migrants, protecting them in the labour market will bring benefits to all workers.
Workers and landowners in the Malagasy highlands see sharecropping as an arrangement where both benefit, but that only holds as long as the former masters benefit most.
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.
Deeply rooted gender and class hierarchies mean that gender-based violence does not end at home - women are also vulnerable to workplace abuse.
A ‘special economic zone’ exists in southeastern Italy where the rules and standards of work do not apply.
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.
The ILO, UNICEF, and the Committee on the Rights of the Child promote policies known to harm children. What will make them engage with their critics?
Los niños, niñas y adolescentes trabajadores reclaman al Comité de los Derechos del Niño y la Niña. English
