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Despite growing support for a Living Wage, companies fall behind commitments

Jul 10, 2019 —

Two recent reports conclude that despite brand involvement with different living wage initiatives, improvements on the issue have been limited. These reports highlight the need for enforceable brand agreements to pay a living wage worldwide.

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Occupational Health and Safety for Construction Workers and Safe Building Standards Must Be Guaranteed

Statement by over 100 civil society organizations from around the world following tragic June 27 building collapse in the Sihanoukville Province of Cambodia, which left at least 28 workers dead.

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“Overworked & exposed” report highlights the perils of short-term contracts in Cambodia and Myanmar

A recent report co-authored by the Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights (Central), Cambodia; Action Labor Rights (ALR), Myanmar; and Future In Our Hands, Norway highlights the pervasiveness of short-term contracts and gender-based discrimination in the garment industry in Cambodia and Myanmar. Through in-depth interviews and group discussions with workers, the report presents the working conditions of female workers with consistent issues of sexual harassment, excessive overtime, personal safety and lack of access to basic labour rights.

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Workers protesting factory closure receive partial severance

Jun 12, 2019 —

Foto: Eduardo Lliteras

On May 28, 70 workers who lost their jobs when their employer closed the Alabama Mexico garment factory five months earlier finally received severance pay, but, according to a local journalist contacted by MSN, only 40% of what they were legally owed.

IACHR expresses concern for ongoing repression in Nicaragua

On April 5, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) released a statement on the continuing crisis in Nicaragua, condemning the persistence of arbitrary arrests, aggression toward people deprived of their liberty, the refusal to reestablish several organizations’ legal status, and the prevention of social protest – all of which are taking place alongside the negotiations between the government and the Civil Alliance for Justice and Democracy.

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