Labour

Increased factory profits is the priority, and workers’ rights to rest, set hours and clear tasks are not protected.

Displacement is a key contributor to the trajectories of “Muslim” politics around the region...

Irresponsible sending agencies in Indonesia and stakeholders in Japan have found ways to manipulate and take advantage of a precarious cohort of migrant workers.

...garment employers regularly used COVID-19 as a pretext to target union members. The pandemic has been weaponised to get rid of trade unions.

The ILO is making slow but sure progress towards SDGs on human trafficking and forced labour in Myanmar, writes Gary Rynhart.