Ten years on from Rana Plaza, how much have conditions in Bangladesh’s garment industry improved?
Ten years ago, on the morning of 24 April 2013, the world was shaken by the tragic collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story building that […]
Deaths at work
Media workers in Cameroon face rising, violent repression; the murder of journalists is Exhibit A
In 2019, Paul Chouta was held for two years at the Kondengui Central Prison in the Cameroonian capital of Yaounde, a maximum-security prison notorious for […]
Caught between military occupation and unemployment, Palestinians continue to work in the Israeli economy without full labour rights
It is four in the morning and heavy rain washes the deserted alleys of the village of Al Midiah, west of Ramallah. A white minibus […]
In a time of global crises, waste workers are our unsung heroes
If the global fight against Covid-19 made one thing clear, it is society’s complete dependency on essential workers, and the risks involved in these professions. […]
Eight years after the Ali Enterprises factory fire in Pakistan, victims and their families are still fighting for justice
On 22 September 2020, almost exactly eight years after Pakistan’s worst industrial fire officially killed 264 garments workers and injured over 60 others in the commercial capital […]
Across the world, construction workers are caught between coronavirus risk and joblessness
A daily commute of two-and-a-half hours each way would take a toll on anyone, but for Özkan, a construction worker in Istanbul, the hardest part […]
Due diligence: has France really laid the foundations to end corporate impunity?
On 24 October 2013, the Rana Plaza disaster in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, triggered a huge outcry. Over a thousand people were killed when […]
Battling with mistrust and poor working conditions, health workers face a difficult fight against Ebola in DRC
The handwashing and temperature reading stations set up in the most widely frequented places in Goma and on the roads leading to other urban centres […]
The invisible workplace accident rate
Nurses providing hospital care, delivery people delivering food to homes, domestic workers cleaning hotel rooms, office workers accumulating overtime hours, waiters and waitresses taking on […]
The silent death of workers in India
Every morning, groups of men squat on the pavement in the streets of Delhi and wait for a truck to pick them up and bring […]
Venezuela: where a crisis and a “gold rush” are creating an environmental disaster
Under glass displays, nappies and coffee are sold as luxury items in the supermarkets of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. Customers’ baskets are mostly empty. […]
Work, fight, protect: around the world in workers’ rights in 2018
Every year for the last five years the Global Rights Index has catalogued violations of freedom of expression, freedom of association and the right to […]
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