Organising precarious workers in the Global South

The workers of the world face numerous challenges. Many debates around the future of labour, such as the rise of the so called ‘gig economy’, tend to focus on experiences and trends within the Global North. The shortcomings of the present are often contrasted to a nostalgic view of the past, with an idealised ‘golden era’ defined by ‘standard employment contracts’ serving as the primary benchmark against which practices today are measured. Once work is defined in these terms, the primary focus becomes the ‘restoration’ of labour rights and protections that have been lost or eroded. The re-invention of a vibrant global labour movement will not occur through a vain attempt to put the clock back to a mythical ‘standard employment contract’. It is only through organising – recruiting, educating and mobilising – new members that labour can reinvent itself as a social movement.

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Forced Labor: Actions Needed to Prevent the Availability of At-Risk Goods in DOD’s Commissaries and Exchanges

Guidance

The Department of Defense (DOD) has some policies and processes in place to prevent the resale of goods produced through forced labor in its commissaries and exchanges. However, despite their generally common business of providing reduced- priced gr...Read More

TAGS: Due Diligence Domestic Work/ Servitude Healthcare/ Pharmaceuticals Financial sector Extractives & Mining Agriculture, Horticulture & Landscaping Information and Communications Technology Aquaculture & Fishing Transportation/ Logistics Forestry/ Reforestation, Wood & Paper Manufacturing Food & Beverage - Processing & Packaging Informal Sector Construction & Security Services Garments & Textiles Tourism, Hospitality & Recreational Services Global

The Environment of Criminality Surrounding the Palm Oil Industry

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The contents of this document provide a practical assessment of risk within the wider palm oil industry structure and the urgent need for better governance, management and administration to prevent these undesirable activities from continuing and gi...Read More

TAGS: Supplier Management Forestry/ Reforestation, Wood & Paper Asia

Main Indicators for the Identification of Victims of Trafficking

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This document encompasses key trafficking indicators which should enable frontline actors to refer the victim to specialized services for formal identification; and common misconceptions about trafficking that should be avoided. The identificatio...Read More

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Employment & Recruitment Agencies Sector Guide on Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

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This document provides guidance for employment and recruitment agencies, information and communications technologies companies, and oil and gas companies for applying the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ...Read More

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