Mar 8, 2024
The ILAW Network is pleased to present our new report, A Promised Not Realised: The Right to Non-Discrimination in Work and Employment – a collaboration of the ILAW Network and Equal Rights Trust (ERT). This issue brief focuses on two main questions: (1) why does discrimination in the workplace persist despite the widespread adoption of laws and regulations that prohibit it? and (2) how can countries create enabling environments to effectively prevent workplace discrimination and remedy it when it occurs?
Download it here.
Feb 15, 2024
In 2023, the Solidarity Center supported workers as they took on exploitative multinational companies and robot algorithms, demanded their governments tackle social ills and deliver on promises, and fought for justice in environments increasingly dangerous to those who defend democracy and work to thwart disenfranchisement and inequality. In our annual report, learn about how the Solidarity Center is standing with workers, trade unions and their movements in 66 countries around the world as they organize and mobilize to create change.
Read here or download here.
Dec 1, 2023
The ILAW Network is pleased to present our new report, Widespread Exploitation in the EU Road Transport Industry: The Case of Central Asian Truck Drivers, written by Imke van Gardingen and Edwin Atema of Road Transport Due Diligence (RTDD). This research was supported by the Solidarity Centre and the International Lawyers for Workers (ILAW) Network. Read the full report here and an update here.
Nov 22, 2023
In South Africa, 98 percent of women garment and retail workers surveyed in 2022 said they had experienced one or more forms of gender-based violence or harassment, including physical abuse, unwanted sexual advances, psychological abuse, bullying and rape. To better understand the experiences of women and other marginalized workers in garment and retail industries with GBVH, and elevate their voices in advocacy campaigns, the Solidarity Center partnered with three trade unions and two civil society organizations to conduct participatory action research.
Download the summary publication here. (Full report coming soon!)
Aug 25, 2023
In Bangladesh, 80 percent of women garment workers surveyed in 2019 reported they had experienced or witnessed sexual harassment, molestation or assault, endured extreme verbal abuse or witnessed a factory manager or supervisor abuse and harass other women in the factory. To better understand the experiences of women the garment industry with GBVH and elevate their voices in advocacy campaigns, the Solidarity Center partnered with six trade union federations and three civil society organizations to conduct participatory action research.
Download it in English and Bangla.
Aug 1, 2023
It has been widely reported that when the COVID-19 pandemic began, governments and employers were ill-informed, ill-prepared and in many cases willing to risk the lives of workers for profits-leading to occupational health and safety failures globally. This issue brief focuses on the fights by workers to ensure safe and healthy working conditions during the pandemic and how they were able to use the law to do so. This includes 11 case studies from Argentina, France, India, Malaysia, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States and a global essay about seafarers.
Download it here.
