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Women Migrant Workers Take the Lead: Gender-Responsive Advocacy & Fair Recruitment in Indonesia

Women Migrant Workers Take the Lead: Gender-Responsive Advocacy & Fair Recruitment in Indonesia

Women migrant workers are increasingly stepping into leadership roles in Indonesia’s labour migration landscape. Through gender-responsive advocacy and fair recruitment initiatives, they are challenging discrimination, unsafe working conditions, and exploitative middlemen. Civil society organizations, unions,

Side Hustle Fatigue: When “Rise and Grind” Culture Turns into a Health Crisis

Side Hustle Fatigue: When “Rise and Grind” Culture Turns into a Health Crisis

Side hustles were once celebrated as empowering paths to extra income, creativity, and financial freedom. However, with the current culture that praises the virtue of working 24-hours, most individuals are currently completing a full-time job,

Travel as Therapy: Can Micro-Getaways Really Fix Burnout and Remote-Work Fatigue?

Travel as Therapy: Can Micro-Getaways Really Fix Burnout and Remote-Work Fatigue?

In a world of endless Zoom calls, email overload, and blurred boundaries between home and office, remote-work fatigue and burnout are becoming the new normal. Many professionals are turning to travel as therapy, seeking short,

From ESG to Real Remedy: Can Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Protect Workers?

From ESG to Real Remedy: Can Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Protect Workers?

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) promises have filled annual reports for years, yet many workers in global supply chains still face low wages, unsafe conditions, and abuse. Voluntary commitments have rarely translated into real remedy

The Right to Strike Is Vanishing Worldwide

The Right to Strike Is Vanishing Worldwide

The right to strike has long been one of the most powerful tools workers have to defend their interests and demand fair treatment. But nowadays, this fundamental labour right is being brutally suppressed. According to

Designing a Balanced Life in 2025

Designing a Balanced Life in 2025

In 2025, the concept of a balanced life has turned into an intentional endeavor for the majority of the workers. It is no longer a matter of luck but rather a consensus among people who

Human Rights vs the Beautiful Game: Why 2026 Hosts Are Under Fire

Human Rights vs the Beautiful Game: Why 2026 Hosts Are Under Fire

The 2026 FIFA World Cup, which is to be held in the USA, Canada, and Mexico, is attracting a lot of attention and alongside this, a human rights debate is intensifying. Still poles apart in

Work from Home, Live at the Office: Remote Workers Logging More Hours Than Ever

Work from Home, Live at the Office: Remote Workers Logging More Hours Than Ever

Remote work was once sold as the path to flexibility, freedom, and better work–life balance. But to most individuals working at home and living in the office is truer description of 2025. Remote workers are

“Not Just a Number”: Migrant Worker Abuse in 2025

“Not Just a Number”: Migrant Worker Abuse in 2025

The abuse of migrant workers is getting monitored in a more systematic manner in 2025 and the results are very alarming. A new dataset of 665 documented cases shows that exploitation is not random or

“Human Rights Lite” in Business: A 2025 Warning Sign

“Human Rights Lite” in Business: A 2025 Warning Sign

It has been described as a rising trend in 2025 as a human rights lite in business -companies that publicly commit to human rights but do not really hold themselves to account. Since the slick