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working conditions
What is ‘cashew oil’ and why is it disfiguring Kenyan workers’ hands?
Issued on: 18/01/2023 - 15:52
Their hands are raw, blistered and swollen. The men and women processing cashew nuts in Kilifi, Kenya use these sore hands to carefully extract…
For Qatar’s foreign workers, protesting can lead to deportation
Issued on: 08/09/2022 - 18:08
As Qatar prepares to host the FIFA World Cup in November, the country is once again drawing criticism from human rights organisations. For…
How a domestic worker from Nepal was enslaved for 15 years in Lebanon
Issued on: 04/05/2022 - 18:41Modified: 06/05/2022 - 13:48
The comparison between a photo taken upon a woman’s arrival in Lebanon in 2007 and her departure in 2022 is…
4 labour codes likely to be implemented by FY23 as states ready draft rules
The four labour codes on wages, social security, industrial relations and occupation safety, health and working conditions are likely to be implemented by the next…
US workers between ‘fear’ and ‘pride’ in massive strike movement
Issued on: 19/10/2021 - 17:48
It’s “Striketober” in the United States. In the month of October, more than 100,000 workers across the US in various industries have walked out,…
‘Some die at work’: The appalling conditions of Iraq’s child labourers
Issued on: 25/06/2021 - 17:26Modified: 29/06/2021 - 12:12
In Iraq, three million children under the age of 15 have left school to work in factories, garages, bakeries or elsewhere –…