The Global Brands Group (GBG) has launched an ethical and social compliance investigation into the Chinese company manufacturing the Soccer World Cup mascot, Zakumi, it said yesterday. “GBG has taken appropriate steps to contract Intertek (the world’s largest independent testing, inspection and certification organisation) to conduct an immediate ethical and social compliance audit and inspection of this facility,” the company said. Continue reading ‘South Africa: Probe into labour standards at Zakumi makers’
South Africa: Probe into labour standards at Zakumi makers
Published February 4, 2010 ILS in the media Leave a CommentTags: child labour, china, code of conduct, convention 182, convention 29, labour standards, south africa, working hours
Tears of African migrants
Published February 1, 2010 CLR writers 1 CommentTags: discrimination, foreign workers, human trafficking, labour standards, migrant workers, modern slavery
For 37 days, the Nigerian journalist Emmanuel Mayah travelled a total of 4,318 kilometres across seven countries and the Sahara desert in the company of illegal African migrants on their way to Europe. From Nigeria to Benin Republic, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and finally Libya, he survived to tell the story of human traffickers, sex slavery in transit camps, starvation, desert bandits, arduous toil in a salt mine, cruel thirst and deaths in the hot desert. The writer was a participant of the ITC-ILO Communicating labour rights’ course 2009. Continue reading ‘Tears of African migrants’
Tripartism in the times of neoliberalism
Published December 22, 2009 ILS news Leave a CommentTags: economic crisis, labour standards, neoliberalism, social dialogue, tripartism, Washington Consensus
For much of the 1990s and the first half of the present decade, many developing countries seeking integration into the global economy adopted the type of market-oriented measures pushed forward by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Much has been written about the impact of these measures (known as the Washington Consensus) on governments, employers and workers in the developing world. Now a new book published by the International Labour Office (ILO) takes this issue forward and looks at how the process of consultation and negotiation between these three social partners – in other words, tripartism – altered the pace, sequence and content of these reforms. ILO Online spoke to the editor of “Blunting neoliberalism: Tripartism and economic reform in the developing world”, Lydia Fraile. Continue reading ‘Tripartism in the times of neoliberalism’
Bangladesh, Land commission for indigenous people soon
Published December 20, 2009 ILS in the media Leave a CommentTags: Convention 169, indigenous people, indigenous population, labour standards
State Minister for Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Affairs, Dipankar Talukder, yesterday said the government has taken steps to form a separate land commission for resolving land dispute for indigenous people of plain land of the country. He was addressing a roundtable on ‘ILO Convention 169: Indigenous people and Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad’ in a city hotel. Continue reading ‘Bangladesh, Land commission for indigenous people soon’
Old age catching up in Sri Lanka
Published December 14, 2009 CLR writers Leave a CommentTags: aging population, labour standards, sri lanka, working age population
By Dilshani Samaraweera
After 30 years spent on war, now old age is catching up with Sri Lanka. Economists and ILO analysts are ringing warning bells that Sri Lanka’s post-war economic growth may decelerate because of aging population. Continue reading ‘Old age catching up in Sri Lanka’
Asia, Human rights for migrant domestic workers
Published December 9, 2009 ILS in the media Leave a CommentTags: decent work, Discrimination against Women, domestic workers, exploitation, foreign workers, labour standards, migrant workers, migrants
As the world marks International Human Rights Day on the 10th of December, CARAM Asia launches an online petition campaign seeking crucial support and commitment from every employer of households to grant a weekly paid day off to their migrant domestic worker (MDW). On this occasion, CARAM Asia, a regional network of 34 NGOs and trade unions across 17 countries in Asia, makes the call to governments across the globe to respect the rights and dignity of migrant workers especially domestic workers. Continue reading ‘Asia, Human rights for migrant domestic workers’
ILO warns “early exit” from stimulus measures could prolong jobs crisis
Published December 8, 2009 ILS news Leave a CommentTags: decent work, global crisis, global jobs pact, jobs crisis, labour standards, recession, unemployment
An “early exit” from support measures adopted in response to the global economic crisis could postpone a jobs recovery for years and render the fledgling economic upturn “fragile and incomplete”, a new report by the research arm of the International Labour Organization (ILO) says. Continue reading ‘ILO warns “early exit” from stimulus measures could prolong jobs crisis’
Nigeria, discrimination against workers with HIV
Published December 1, 2009 CLR writers Leave a CommentTags: decent work, discrimination, hiv, labour standards, nigeria
By Chukwuma Muanya and Collins Olayinka
AS the country joins the rest of the world to mark the 2009 World AIDS Day today, the country has recorded a 46.7 per cent drop in Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) infection in seven years. Continue reading ‘Nigeria, discrimination against workers with HIV’
