This research assessed the feasibility of setting up a cooperative initiative that would address challenges that engineering and construction companies face to uphold workers’ rights in their operations and subcontracting supply chains.
The main findings suggest that companies share many of the same challenges, including the risks related to the recruitment process, working conditions, legislation on labour migration and freedom of association in some countries of operation that further restrict workers’ rights, limited oversight of subcontractors’ practices.
This paper reflects on the implications of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on modern slavery risks in supply chains. We first reason that the global supply and demand shock resulting from COVID-19 exacerbates workers’ vulnerability to modern s...Read More
The CARE and TACT leaflets can be used as examples to develop information materials for victims of trafficking willing to return to their country of origin. These leaflets are tools that should be used by professionals during discussions with the vi...Read More
This study looks at the different forms that child marriage takes in South Asia and further looks at how these variations in child marriage practices are linked to other harmful practices. The study acknowledges that child marriage takes place in v...Read More
This article examines Canada’s federal Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP) from the perspective of international human-rights and labour norms pertaining to the protection of migrant workers. Showing that the current legal framework of the LCP restric...Read More
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