China: Gig workers highlight precarity and poor working …
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China: Mounting concerns over forced labour in Xinjiang
5 天之前 · In March 2020, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) published a report Uyghurs for sale: ‘Re-education’, forced labour and surveillance beyond Xinjiang, which identified 83 foreign and Chinese companies as allegedly directly or indirectly benefiting from the use of Uyghur workers outside Xinjiang through potentially abusive labour transfer programs.
USA: Supreme Court will hear case against Nestlé, Cargill, and Doe ...
6 天之前 · "More trouble ahead for the ATS? SCOTUS grants cert in Nestle case," 2 Jul 2020. The US Supreme Court just granted Nestlé’s cert petition in a case based on forced child labor in Côte d’Ivoire.... Both the alleged facts in John Doe I et al v. Nestlé (forced child labor in the supply chains of giant chocolate brands) and the contours of the law under which Plaintiffs are suing …
Annual reports - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
6 天之前 · Annual Impact Report 2023/24. This year the Resource Centre’s Global Team, in over 30 locations worldwide, has worked to deliver solidarity for those facing repression, insights and propositions for those developing policy, and evidence for those seeking accountability – from repressive supply chains in Myanmar; to the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, to the dispossession …
Boss Mining did not respond to the allegation of pollution
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Kuwait: Manpower authority announce "easier movement" for …
3 天之前 · "COVID-19: Kuwait approves transfer of work permits after one yar instead of three," 6 May 2021. The Director General of the Public Authority for Manpower (PAM), Ahmed Al Mousa, issued a decision to allow workers to transfer their work …
S. Africa: Labour court provides useful steps for companies dealing ...
5 天之前 · ‘Sexual harassment claims at South African companies – and the legal case you should know’ 8 January 2022. Section 60(2) of the Employment Equity Act requires that if a sexual harassment incident is alleged at work, the employer must consult all relevant parties and must take the necessary steps to eliminate the alleged conduct.
Malawi: Details of secretive farm workers export deal to Israel …
6 天之前 · "Apprehension in Malawi as government sends workers to Israel amid Gaza war" The departure of hundreds of Malawians to Israel to work as farm labourers has sparked a debate within the Southern African country, which is looking …
USA: Meta agrees to a US$90 million settlement due to Facebook’s ...
4 天之前 · "Meta agrees to pay $90 million to settle lawsuit over Facebook tracking users' online activity", 15 Feb 2022. Facebook ()-parent Meta has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a decade-old class action lawsuit over a practice that allowed the social network to track users' activity across the internet, even if they had logged out of the platform.The settlement…is one of the …
Indonesia: Nickel mining levels forests without FPIC; locals …
4 天之前 · A report by Mighty Earth finds that 25 of 239 nickel concessions in Indonesia have the highest deforestation rate. The report also investigates how nickel mining operations have resulted to adverse environmental and human rights impacts in Sulawesi.