Labour

Child Labor in the Arab Region Does Not Belong to the 21st Century

By Dr. Hanif Hassan Ali Al Qassim
Today marks the 2017 World Day against Child Labor to reaffirm the goal to eliminate all forms of child labor. This year’s annual theme highlights a subject that is often neglected, namely the importance of addressing child labor in conflict areas and in disaster settings.

What Future for 700 Million Arab and Asian Youth?

By Baher Kamal
With a combined population of around 400 million inhabitants, 22 Arab countries are home to nearly 300 million youth. Meantime, there are 400 million youth living in Asia and the Pacific. In both regions, these 700 million young people aged 15–24 years account for up to 60 per cent of world’s youth population. What future for them?.

Renewing Commitment to SDGs: Private Sector Gets Active

By Paloma Duran
Just last month business representatives from around the world joined the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Fund commemorate their work as part of the Private Sector Advisory Group (PSAG).

Global South Calls for International Body to Fight Tax Havens

By Tharanga Yakupitiyage
Tax havens are “one of the worst enemies of our democracies,” said state representatives during a meeting at the United Nations.

Measly Earnings for Tamil Shoemakers

By Erik Larsson
Working fulltime in their own homes, putting their health at risk with the chemicals they use, to make the shoes sold in the West. Indian women endure poor working conditions and earn just over 40 dollars per month.

Proposed UN Pay Cuts Threaten Work Stoppage in Geneva

By Thalif Deen
Facing significant reductions in US financial contributions from a politically-unpredictable Donald Trump administration, the UN Secretariat is gearing itself for a rash of austerity measures and budgetary cuts, including downsizing peacekeeping operations and cuts in development aid, reproductive health and overseas travel.

Growing Unemployed Youth in Africa a Time Bomb, But…

By Friday Phiri
There are nearly 420 million young Africans between the ages of 15 and 35 today. And it is estimated that within ten years, Africa will be home to one-fifth of all young people worldwide.

Slow Growth Stalls SDGs’ Progress

By Tharanga Yakupitiyage
The world will not be on track to eradicate poverty by 2030 if current growth trends continue, a UN task force found.

Ecuador Focuses on New UN Tax Body to Fight Illicit Financial Flows

By Tharanga Yakupitiyage
The time is now to work together to fight illicit financial flows, according to Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Guillaume Long.

Norwegian Trade Union Boycott Israel

By Linda Flood
The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) has voted in favour of a boycott against Israel, which is expected to affect cultural, economical and academic ties. Condemnation has come from Isreali politicians, diplomats and unions.

Africa and India – Sharing the Development Journey

By Akinwumi Adesina
Africa, like India, is a continent of rich and compelling diversity. Both continents share a similar landscape, a shared colonial history, and similar economic and demographic challenges. This helps both India and Africa work especially well with each other.

An Untold Economic Success Story in Syria

By Pierre Pierre Krähenbühl
Hidden almost literally under the rubble of the civil war in Syria is an economic success story that is rarely told. Hanan Odah is a thirty-year-old Palestine refugee living in Jaramana refugee camp in Damascus. She supports her multiply displaced family of three from a thriving micro-enterprise venture. Her husband was killed in the conflict, but she refused to submit to despair and dependency on her parents.

Unlocking the Diaspora Development Potential

By Elena L. Pasquini
‘Diaspora is the biggest development community that exists in the world’, according to Pedro De Vasconcelos, manager of IFAD‘s Financial Facility for Remittances. However, its potential is still largely untapped.

Poverty Drives Wages Down

By Erik Larsson
H&M has made promises to raise wage levels and increase worker influence in the garment factories of Cambodia.  The validity of these supposed ambitions is being criticized. ”What have they actually achieved? Nothing!”, says Sajsa Beslik, sustainibility banker at Swedish Nordea.

Informal Labour, Another Wall Faced by Migrants in Latin America

By Fabiana Frayssinet
A large proportion of the 4.3 million migrant workers in Latin America and the Caribbean survive by working in the informal economy or in irregular conditions. An invisible wall that is necessary to bring down, together with discrimination and xenophobia.

From Research to Entrepreneurship: Fishing Youth and Women out of Poverty

By Friday Phiri
Ivy Nyambe Inonge, 35, is the treasurer of Mbeta Island Integrated Fish Farm in Senanga district. Her group won the first prize in Zambia under the Cultivate Africa’s Future (CultiAF)  Expanding Business Opportunities for African Youth in Agricultural Value Chains in Southern Africa. She is excited at the prospect of what 5,000 dollars can do for her group, and ultimately, the whole community of Mbeta Island.

Humanity and Social Justice, a Must for the Future of Work – Ryder

By Baher Kamal
“The future of work must be inspired by considerations of humanity, of social justice and peace. If it is not, we are going to a dark place, we are going to a dangerous place,” said the head of the leading world body specialised on labour issues.

Work, What Future? Seven Big Questions Needing Urgent Response

By Baher Kamal
Around the world, profound changes in the nature of work are underway, that’s clear. So it is a fact that the on-going transformations in the world of labour are disrupting the connection between work, personal development and community participation.

The Challenge Ahead: Harnessing Gene Editing to Sustainable Agriculture

By Nteranya Sanginga
The role of genetic engineering in agriculture and food has generated enormous interest and controversies, with large-scale embrace by some nations and wholesale bans by others.

Slaves

By Baher Kamal
For over 400 years, more than 15 million men, women and children were the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, one of the darkest chapters in human history. Slavery is, nevertheless, far from being just a chapter of the past—it still there, with estimated 21 million victims of forced labour and extreme exploitation around the world--nearly the equivalent to of the combined population of Scandinavian countries.

Free Education Helps Combat Child Labour in Fiji

By Catherine Wilson
In the South Pacific nation of Fiji, free and compulsory education, introduced three years ago, in association with better awareness and child protection measures, is helping to reduce children’s vulnerability to harmful and hazardous forms of work.
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