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Indonesia - parliament passed a landmark bill on sexual violence on Tuesday. The long-awaited bill aims to tackle sexual violence and help victims to secure justice in the country. Sexual abuse cases are often considered
Ayswarya Murthy
United States - Many health care workers at Howard University Hospital protested against alleged unfair labour conditions and wage contracts on Monday. The underpaid doctors held a one-day strike and demanded more payment and fair
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Cambodia - Even as unions and labour organizations in Cambodia's garment industry have made relevant developments in terms of protecting workers' safety and rights, those employed in informal and subcontracted industries, such as the construction
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United States - Human Rights and Labor Rights issues are cropping up in most tournament facilities in the US, Canada and Mexico. Concerned over this, AFL-CIO, America’s largest federation of labor unions has approached FIFA
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A study finds that the risks of illegal fishing are increasing with every passing day. There was a gradual increase in the illegal fishing sector during the covid-19 pandemic and that essentially led to increase
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Qatar - Earlier it was labourers, now it is security guards in Qatar that have been reportedly been victims to forced labour. The UN labour agency has recently joined Amnesty International in calling on World
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United States - The big e-retail company Amazon finally has a workers’ union. Amazon was not happy with this and in its history, such an unprecedented support for a workers’ union has not been seen
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Hong Kong - Sick domestic workers were left homeless and jobless in Hong Kong after contracting Covid-19. Many workers also faced other forms of discrimination and abuse after contracting Covid-19. When Josephine, a 54-year-old domestic
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India - Lack of rights in the informal sector in India is getting increasingly serious. For the formal sector, governing bodies have command to look over and listen to pleas of those who have suffered
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Brazil - It is quite out of a movie clip where bank employees are striking while the owner goes on a vacation, oblivious to the suffering of his own employees. Brazil’s central bank employees are
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