Illegally mined gold represents 77% of gold mined in Ecuador, 80% of gold mined in Colombia and 80-90% in Venezuela. Illegal gold mining employs hundreds of thousands of workers across Latin America, many of whom are extremely vulnerable to labour exploitation and human trafficking, and it provides funding to organised crime groups and terrorism across the region.
The ILO Global Business Network on Forced Labour hosted a webinar for members on the 12th of March 2020 on the ILO's 11 operational indicators of forced labour. The webinar was presented by Luiz Machado, ILO Technical Specialist on Forced Labour, an...Read More
Experts from the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour discuss research on global trends in the realization of this fundamental human right, including an analysis of important developments in the business contribution to...Read More
In the face of what is arguably a migration crisis, President Obama has issued an Executive Action protecting a potential 4.3 million illegal immigrants from the threat of deportation, by changing priorities for deportation to exclude those who have spent...
In this webinar, The Mekong Club explores the repercussions and background of before and after the pandemic, including conspiracy theories, mutations and refinement of the crisis, and references to the John Hopkins Coronavirus Dashboard. It outlines...Read More
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