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How new technology is helping to identify human rights abuses in the seafood industry

25/02/202126/02/2021 - Leave a Comment

Every year, the U.S. imports billions of dollars worth of seafood from countries that may be using forced labor on distant water fishing vessels. A growing cadre of tech companies …

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EU takes step to help ‘gig’ economy workers

24/02/202126/02/2021 - Leave a Comment

The European Commission on Wednesday launched a public consultation to look into the legal employment status and conditions of gig economy workers. It is the bloc’s first step aimed at improving the rights …

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India’s Women Bear the Burden of Unpaid Work – With Costs to Themselves and the Economy

02/11/202006/11/2020 - Leave a Comment

India’s first-ever time use survey finds that women continue to do over one more hour of work every day than men. The report highlights the rampant “time poverty” experienced by women when …

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Higher taxes, fairer society: UK survey shows desire for equality

30/09/202002/10/2020 - Leave a Comment

Authors of new report call for radical change to economy, recognition of unpaid care work, usually done by women. People in the United Kingdom would be happy to pay higher …

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A Hub of the Gujarat Economy That Became a Zone of Despair For Migrant Workers

17/06/202018/06/2020 - Leave a Comment

When Deepak and Chandan began working in Hazira, they knew they had to make the best of a bad bargain. But nothing had prepared them for the trauma they suffered …

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The coronavirus fallout may be worse for women than men

12/03/202007/04/2020 - Leave a Comment

Are men and women feeling the effects of the coronavirus differently? Research from China suggests that while COVID-19 is infecting men and women in about equal numbers, women appear less …

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