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Much of the hard-won rights of garment workers in Asia are being squandered away due to the economic effects of the coronavirus. The latest Modern Slavery Index released by risk analytics company Verisk Maplecroft has
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There is hope that other municipal governments in South Korea will also follow Seoul’s example by providing help for non-citizens affected by the pandemic. Migrant workers in the South Korean capital of Seoul have welcomed
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The outbreak of coronavirus among guest workers in Canadian farms has put a spotlight on their mistreatment at the hands of employers. For several decades now, foreign workers have been the mainstay of the Canadian
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Top law officials in the country vacillate over the law that allows incarceration of children as young as 10 despite appeals from various quarters to increase the minimum age to 14. Australia’s Council of Attorneys-General
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Already stranded due to the pandemic and the economic collapse gripping Lebanon, the blast only increased their desperation to go home. For the thousands of Bangladeshi workers stuck in Lebanon, the Beirut blast was the
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Pro-democracy protests in the country saw armed men attacking peaceful demonstrators as security forces looked on. In the past week, Cote D’Ivoire has seen protests against President Alassane Ouattara’s decision to stand for a third
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The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been authorising the detention of migrant children in hotels before their expulsion, putting them out of the purview of federal detention laws. Major hotel chains are being used
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By suspending the EBA trade scheme, the European Union hopes to pressure Cambodia into providing better political freedom in the country. Brussels has said that it was compelled to partially withdraw the tariff-free trading rights
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Europe’s Roma population has been “left behind” due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to human rights observers. A catchall term, the Roma are the largest ethnic minority in Europe who have been subjected to discrimination
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One year after Jammu & Kashmir lost its constitutional autonomy, the region continues to witness several human rights abuses. Even a year after the upheavals of August 5, 2019, Kashmir still hasn’t returned to normalcy.
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