The Global Compact for Migration is supposed to put gender concerns front and centre, but as the negotiations draw to a close it is clear that this has not happened.
Neither CSR nor local laws are protecting the workers in Walmart’s supplier factories from exploitation and gender-based violence. We need an instrument with more teeth.
The people making clothes for export in Cambodia are fainting at their posts. Why?
Social media, the power of reputational damage, and effective communications are powerful tools for trade union organising.
Political and economic education is pitiful, and via political parties, the education system and trade unions, it desperately needs to be revived.
Learning to read and predict our changing environment through strategic use of data is crucial for the survival of trade unions.
A mini-series of blogs, published by SPERI and openDemocracy, will present new ideas for how unions can organise and engage with the workforce.
The human right to identity of countless undocumented migrant bodies is being disregarded by the inadequate body management and identification efforts – more must be done.
We need a binding global convention on violence and harassment in the world of work.
The computer game (UN)TRAFFICKED puts the fate of a 13-year-old potential trafficking victim in the player’s hands, without ever allowing the girl to speak for herself.
Research from Nasc sheds light on the treatment of those refused ‘leave to land’ at Irish borders and individuals held in detention for immigration-related purposes.
What happens when policymakers are guided by their biases, instead of the voices of the people they are trying to help?
