As indicated by revised figures providing additional details on the scope of countries’ workplace closure policies, 94 per cent of the world’s workers are living in countries with some sort of workplace closure measures in place. Although more and more countries are easing these measures to gradually allow workers to return to their workplaces, as at 17 May 2020,1 20 per cent of the world’s workers lived in countries with required workplace closures for all but essential workers. An additional 69 per cent lived in countries with required workplace closures for some sectors or categories of workers, and a further 5 per cent lived in countries with recommended workplace closures.
By Sandra COSSART, Jérôme and Tiphaine BEAU DE LOMENIE INTRODUCTION The difficult journey of the French Bill on the duty of care of parent and subcontracting companies came to an end on 23 March 2017, when the French Constitutional Council (Counc...Read More
Written by Robert Moossy, J.D. This paper outlines the key steps in the identification of potential victims of sex trafficking, along with the steps to be taken in the process of investigating cases of sex trafficking. ...Read More
Based on long-term ethnographic research, including documentary research, qualitative interviews and observations made at a Portuguese shelter for “sex trafficked women,” this paper explores the counter-trafficking apparatus questioning who bene...Read More
This briefing summarizes some of the key human rights risks to workers in this sector, and considers the steps taken by ten call centers operatingin and six clients outsourcing services to Tunisia and/or Morocco to protect workers amidst the crisis....Read More
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