Showing posts with label LAW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LAW. Show all posts
Monday, 26 March 2007
THE MOVEMENT IN BRISTOL TO ABOLISH SLAVE TRADE
"The absence of conflict is not evidence of the presence of peace." The report of Marvin Rees from Bristol
FEMINIZATION OF WORKING POVERTY
More women then ever before are in work, but a persistent gap in status, job security, wages and education between women and men is contributing to the "feminization of working poverty", according to a new report by the International Labour Office (ILO): Global Employment Trends for Women Brief - 2007
FORCED LABOUR: DECEPTION OR FALSE PROMISES ABOUT TYPES AND TERMS OF WORK
The International Labour Organization - ILO- defines deception or false promises about types and terms of work as being forced labour
FORCED LABOUR IN EUROPE
EuropeTrafficking appears to be the main route into forced labour in Europe. While much of the attention has been focused on victims of sexual exploitation, there is growing evidence that many are being trafficked for forced labour in agriculture, domestic service, construction work and sweatshops. Victims of forced labour in Europe come mainly from Asia, former Soviet republics, Eastern Europe and Africa.
Go to the European Industrial Relations Observatory
Go to the European Industrial Relations Observatory
THE WORLD OF MODERN CHILD SLAVERY
When it is mentioned we tend to think of people, almost always black people; degraded, abused and bound in chains, and we tend to think of such images, and the word slavery itself, as belonging to another era.
We do not see slavery as belonging to our world, not as something which is still happening today.
Reports Rageh Omar
We do not see slavery as belonging to our world, not as something which is still happening today.
Reports Rageh Omar
TOMATO PICKING IN NORTH AMERICA
Guadalupe Gonzalez, 37, is one of the thousands of mainly-Hispanic migrants who work as tomato-pickers in the fields of Immokalee, southern Florida.
Tuesday, 6 March 2007
BERNARD MATTHEWS CORPORATE LIABILITY
The poultry firm Bernard Matthews could be prosecuted under food safety laws after government inspectors reported a series of biosecurity failings at a plant in Suffolk that saw the UK's first major outbreak of H5N1 bird flu. Times online
Tuesday, 27 February 2007
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