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Women’s Night-Shift and Safety Rights

Women’s Night-Shift and Safety Rights

Women who work on the night shift are an essential component of the health care, hospitality, manufacturing, and IT industries and other directions, but they are also more exposed to the threats of safety, transport,

New Labour-Law Overhaul in India: What It Means for Informal, Gig, and Migrant Workers

New Labour-Law Overhaul in India: What It Means for Informal, Gig, and Migrant Workers

The new labour-law overhaul in India is meant to streamline and modernize a patchwork system with dozens of laws being combined into four broad labour codes. This may theoretically lead to more workers (both informal,

Work-Life Balance on Trial: How 4-Day Workweek Experiments Respond to Demographic and Social Crisis

Work-Life Balance on Trial: How 4-Day Workweek Experiments Respond to Demographic and Social Crisis

Around the world, governments and companies are testing the 4-day workweek as a way to address burnout, ageing populations, labour shortages, and changing expectations about work-life balance. The experiments usually keep the salary at the

Returned Migrant Workers in Cambodia: Hunger, Debt, and the Struggle for Reintegration

Returned Migrant Workers in Cambodia: Hunger, Debt, and the Struggle for Reintegration

When high numbers of Cambodian migrant labourers come home at the same time, be it because economies slow, labour laws get tougher in other countries, or crisis, whole communities are left in the position of

Migrant Workers Returning from UAE With Kidney Failure Due to Extreme Temperatures

Migrant Workers Returning from UAE With Kidney Failure Due to Extreme Temperatures

Over the last few years, newspapers have reported that migrant workers in the UAE and other Gulf countries have come back with serious cases of kidney related illnesses that can be attributed to long term

Philippines OFWs in Israel: Relocation & Trauma Support After 2025 Border Tensions

Philippines OFWs in Israel: Relocation & Trauma Support After 2025 Border Tensions

Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Israel have once again found themselves on the frontlines of conflict, caught between their livelihoods abroad and safety concerns back home. After the 2025 border tensions escalated, many Filipino caregivers,

Tea Garden Workers Get Land Rights — How Land Ownership Could Change Labour Justice in Rural India

Tea Garden Workers Get Land Rights — How Land Ownership Could Change Labour Justice in Rural India

Decades after decades, tea garden laborers in India have worked and lived in the farms without owning the land the houses are built on and as a result, they are at the mercy of the

U.S. Executive Order Against the Muslim Brotherhood Framed as a Global Security Imperative

U.S. Executive Order Against the Muslim Brotherhood Framed as a Global Security Imperative

There has also been a concerted global push on the side of the recent U.S. Executive Order against the Muslim Brotherhood that presents the action as a measure of security, and not a political one,

Why the UN Migration Committee’s 2025 Recommendations Could Transform Migrant-Worker Rights Worldwide

Why the UN Migration Committee’s 2025 Recommendations Could Transform Migrant-Worker Rights Worldwide

The 2025 recommendations of the UN Migration Committee represent a change in the way governments are being encouraged to treat migrant workers, as low-wage labourers to high-skilled professionals. The guidance aims at ending the exploitation,

From Brick Kilns to Tech Startups: India’s Contract Workers Need Fair Legal Protection

From Brick Kilns to Tech Startups: India’s Contract Workers Need Fair Legal Protection

The economic growth of India has been supported by a labor force that is rather silent and unguarded. Millions of workers work on the national development without permanent jobs in scorching brick kilns and construction