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The US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) Friday issued a withhold release order against Chinese fishing company Dalian Ocean Fishing. Withhold Release Orders are targeted bans on the import of products from a company or region based on the use of forced labor. Recently, CBP also banned the import of cotton and tomatoes from Xinjiang over [...]

Recently, the High Court of Kerala, India, in Treasa Josfine vs. State of Kerala invalidated an employment notification that invited only male candidates to apply for the permanent post of Safety Officer. The judgement, which determined that women cannot be denied employment on account of the appointment involving work during night hours, is a significant [...]

During this entire period of three back-to-back lockdowns with a fourth coming soon, if there is a group who has suffered the most, it is the migrant laborers. When the lockdown was announced at very short notice and all transportation was immediately halted, these inter-State migrant workers became victims of this pandemic in a different [...]

On 24th March, 2020, the Government of India announced a lockdown throughout the nation in an effort to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the largest such lockdown globally. With each passing day of the lockdown, India like other countries, is witnessing a rise in cases of domestic violence against women. In India however, [...]

The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association said Thursday that the "fundamental right to strike must be preserved." Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai's remarks were in...

The International Labor Organization (ILO) announced Wednesday that International Protocol P029 , an agreement seeking to end forced labor, officially entered into force. The agreement was adopted in 2014 and was ratified by nine countries. The ILO explained...

Debt bondage remains the world's leading form of slavery despite being outlawed in many regions, according to a report presented Thursday by a UN human rights expert. UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery Urmila...

Thousands of children in Afghanistan are currently working in conditions hazardous to their health, according to a report released Thursday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . According to the report, many of these children work in jobs...

The UN International Labour Organization (ILO) on Sunday released a statement calling for the world to end child labor in supply chains such as agriculture, mining and manufacturing. The statement was made on...

According to an unreleased report obtained by the Associated Press , some members of a UN peacekeeping mission engaged in sexual exploitation with more than 200 Haitian women, telling them that they had to in order...