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Human trafficking on the rise, UN proceeds with the investigation

Human trafficking on the rise, UN proceeds with the investigation

Crime groups dismantled around the world and resulted in extreme rise of harboring and human trafficking rise. Although, harboring is one of five actions that constitute an ‘act’ in the internationally recognized definition of human

Mexican Migrant Workers File Lawsuit Over Misguided Work Low Pay In Louisiana

Mexican Migrant Workers File Lawsuit Over Misguided Work Low Pay In Louisiana

Louisiana, USA - Migrant workers in Mexico have actually filed a lawsuit against a Louisiana sugar company that had employed them for farm work and is now using them to drive trucks. The latter earns

Crisis for Lebanon’s delivery riders as economy continues to crumble

Crisis for Lebanon’s delivery riders as economy continues to crumble

Lebanon - Delivery riders have got a perilous lifeline in form of food delivery through local delivery apps during Covid-19 pandemic. The job profile that saw boom during pandemic as people stayed home thereby surging

How Wage Theft Goes Unbated In American Restaurants

How Wage Theft Goes Unbated In American Restaurants

United States - Wage theft is becoming a common practice in restaurant business, according to a non-profit advocacy group called One Fair Wage has said. Speaking to the media, the group’s President Saru Jayaraman commented

Workers Shortage is Compelling UK Farmers to Cut Down Food Production from 2022

Workers Shortage is Compelling UK Farmers to Cut Down Food Production from 2022

United Kingdom - Farmers in the UK are facing troubled times due to a shortage of migrant workers amid harvest season. However, farmers are now forced to slash production from 2022 as a massive shortage

Why Mali Security Forces Indulge In Human Rights Violations?

Why Mali Security Forces Indulge In Human Rights Violations?

Mali - Security forces have allegedly got into executions and promoting disappearance of Malians, the Human Rights Watch has confirmed. Government security forces have apparently been carrying out summary executions, enforced disappearances, and incommunicado detentions

Warehouse workers of Amazon to file for Union elections

Warehouse workers of Amazon to file for Union elections

United States - Employee group formed by warehouse workers in New York’s Staten Island working for Amazon announced its goal to vote on unionization, becoming the latest labor-organizing effort from workers at one of the

Russia and its dependence on Central Asian labor market

Russia and its dependence on Central Asian labor market

Russia- has been quite aggressive in hiring labor from Central Asia since long. In the same line, the country has been busy creating regulations and punitive laws directed as migrant labors. Entry bans into Russia

Israel marks six Palestinian NGOs as ‘terrorist organization’

Israel marks six Palestinian NGOs as ‘terrorist organization’

Israel - Israeli authorities have highlighted a few Palestianian NGOs as terrorist outlets blaming them for spreading false information and hatred among people against Israel. On Friday, Israeli Defence Ministry took a major step by

Don’t miss signs of self-burnout while chasing work

Don’t miss signs of self-burnout while chasing work

Bingerville -Eric M. Bailey, chief executive of Bailey Strategic Innovation Group mentions that instead of thinking of work and life as opposite weights on a scale, we should think of work as a part of