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In Ecuador, abaca workers are demanding justice and an end to 60 years of modern-day slavery

23rd February 2021 Equal Times 0

In December 2003, after 30 years spent labouring on an abaca plantation, Susana Quiñonez finally summoned the courage to demand better working conditions from her […]

The ongoing struggle to protect Guinea’s domestic workers

25th September 2020 Equal Times 0

On reaching the home where she was hired as a domestic worker, on 30 May 2020, in the Sangoya district in the upper suburbs of […]

In Tunisia, Black Africans face “the harshest exploitation”

4th May 2020 Equal Times 0

Jérémie*, an Ivorian in his early thirties who arrived in Tunisia in early 2016, is reluctant to speak out. He says he suffered reprisals after […]

South Africa’s spaza shops: how regulatory avoidance harms informal workers

25th February 2020 Andries du Toit 0

Small informal retailers are a ubiquitous feature of any developing country’s urban landscape. Known as spaza shops in South Africa, they are an important, even […]

In north-eastern Nigeria, traffickers are preying on vulnerable children in IDP camps

19th July 2018 Equal Times 0

When Sarah (not real name) was five, her father died after a prolonged battle with HIV and AIDS. At 15, her mother was killed during […]

Work, fight, protect: around the world in workers’ rights in 2018

12th June 2018 Equal Times 0

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 […]

One hundred years of servitude in Brazil

3rd April 2018 Equal Times 0

Sexagenarian Augusto Miranda Brasão has been cutting piassava since the age of 12 to pay off debts to his bosses. This palm tree, with coarse […]

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