Full Coverage: Labour

30.06.2005 In advance of the G8 summit, trade union leaders representing workers from 150 countries met with Tony Blair Wednesday, highlighting that fair and sustainable work worldwide is a critical element in the campaign to end poverty and calling on G8 leaders to take more decisive steps on poverty, environmental issues, and HIV/AIDS.

24.06.2005 In a recent online discussion, Vernor Muñoz Villalobos, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, offers revealing insights into how to end the inhumane practice that engages 246 million children in labor globally. View the compelling feedback to questions from people around the globe.

20.06.2005 The news that Coca-Cola was in negotiations to sponsor the anti-poverty Live 8 concert series brought swift condemnation from across the globe. Among other gross misdeeds, the company stands accused of pumping massive amounts of groundwater from India's parched earth and allowing the intimidation and killing of union leaders in Colombia.

17.06.2005 The Second Children's World Congress on Child Labour and Education will be held in New Delhi from September 4-8, 2005 by Global March Against Child Labour and hosted by Bachpan Bachao Andolan. The Congress aims to empower children to lead worldwide efforts to end child labour and to ensure free, quality education for all children.

16.06.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jun 16 (OneWorld) - Five of the nation's largest labor unions are forming a breakaway coalition in hopes of reversing the declining membership and political fortunes of the premier U.S. labor federation, the AFL-CIO.

15.06.2005 On the occasion of June 12, the World Day Against Child Labour, INSTAT (Albanian Statistical Institute) and UNICEF raised the alarm about the situation with Child Labour in Albania.

15.06.2005 On June 15, join a day-long online conversation about child labor with experts at Human Rights Education Associates and their featured guest Vernor Munoz, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education. You can send your questions in advance and tune back in to follow the rest of the discussion.

15.06.2005 On Thursday at the All Candy Expo in Chicago, Global Exchange will call on World's Finest Chocolate--the company that over 40,000 schools and youth groups depend on for their annual fundraisers--to join other chocolate manufacturers in using Fair Trade certified cocoa. Send a free fax to let them know you want their fundraisers to support community development for our children and for children everywhere.

14.06.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jun 14 (OneWorld) - U.S. employers have fired or otherwise retaliated against more than 10,000 workers so far this year for demonstrating support for a union, according to labor rights advocates.

14.06.2005 The Director-General of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has questioned whether the dominant global economic model is creating real employment. Millions are working in informal economic sectors for desperate wages whilst owners of capital prosper.

13.06.2005 The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has given a call to eradicate child labour from mines and quarries in the next five to ten years. It has identified mining and quarrying as one of the most dangerous sectors for children to work in.

12.06.2005 KATHMANDU, Jun 11 (IPS) - Dipak Budhamagar wants to be a farmer like his father, who was killed by Maoist insurgents during the Tihar festival last November for fleeing a rebel work camp after a month's forced labour.

10.06.2005 An ILO document looks at the child labour situation in India. It also documents the policies on child labour as well as provides a list of organisations working on eradicating the problem.

10.06.2005 The World Day Against Child Labour, which falls on 12 June, will focus on removing child labour from one of the worst forms of child labour - children working in mines and quarries. It is estimated that nearly one million children work in mines and quarries the world over.

08.06.2005 In a raid similar to the one carried out in Mumbai last week, in which hundreds of children working in factories were rescued, another 29 children working in inhuman conditions in factories in New Delhi were released on June 6. New Delhi NGO, Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) carried out a raid in an industrial area in Delhi and saved the children.

07.06.2005 Marking its 30th anniversary this week, the UN Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery--the only international governing body devoted to monitoring modern-day slavery--is hosting a week-long conference in Geneva. Outlining the hotspots for slavery worldwide, including forced labor in Brazil, abductions in Sudan, and trafficking of women in North Korea, Anti-Slavery International is calling for stronger UN action.

06.06.2005 Although the majority of disabled persons is able to work, most of them remain unemployed, concluded the workshop on the right to employment of persons with disabilities and persons with special needs, held in Mostar last Friday.

06.06.2005 Christian Aid has issued a statement providing reassurance that concerns over conditions for Chinese workers producing silicon white bands for the Make Poverty History campaign have been investigated and addressed.

03.06.2005 Hopes of constructive dialogue between Israel and Palestine are unlikely to be fulfilled unless conditions for Palestinian workers in the occupied Arab territories improve, argues a new report by the International Labour Organisation.