Social Media Ideas for Women Workers Exploitation

The Lehenga And The Law: Women Who Embroider Bridal Lehengas In Mumbai’s Shivaji Nagar Earn As Little As INR 5 Per Piece

Piece-rate is not a neutral payment system; it is how the minimum wage law is made intentionally unenforceable. And it works because when women call their own work leisure, no one...

Platform Affiliation Must Not Determine Domestic Workers’ Labour Rights

India must conceptualise a meaningful policy response that recognises domestic work as a formal labour sector and ensures enforceable protections for domestic workers. This include...

Zim Domestic Workers Trapped, Exploited in Qatar

By A Correspondent-A number of Zimbabwean women seeking better economic opportunities in Qatar are facing exploitation, abuse, wage theft and conditions resembling … Continue readi...

Saudi Arabia’s reforms fail to halt abuse of Filipino helpers, Amnesty warns

Filipino domestic workers continue to endure widespread labour exploitation and sexual abuse in Saudi Arabia, according to a new Amnesty International report. The rights watchdog f...

As ILO convention turns 30, India’s home-based workers demand equal rights

Convention 177 was adopted on 20 June 1996, recognising home-based workers on a par with traditional wage earners.

Formalising labour

A bill that protects domestic workers only works if those workers feel safe enough to actually use it

Migrant workers exploitation on flagship US building project in Italy

Foreign workers recruited to build a new $350 million US consulate in Milan say they were promised fair wages but ended up earning less than €2 an hour. As Italian prosecutors inve...

Persistence of gender wage gaps

Despite slight improvement, women’s incomes from work are still only one-fifth those of men in South Asia

Indian Factory Workers Are Recording Their Work For Free To Train Capitalistic AI Models

Human Trafficking in Sri Lanka: Protecting Vulnerable Women

Human trafficking in Sri Lanka continues to affect economically vulnerable communities, particularly women seeking work abroad due to limited local employment opportunities and fin...

Unpaid on the job training leaving female-dominated professions behind

With rising fuel prices and cost of living, trainee nurses, teachers, medical students, midwives and social workers are only just able to keep their heads above water.

Between Safety, Survival, And Struggle: The Lives Of Women Street Vendors In Delhi

For many women vendors, these streets are not merely places of work; they are spaces where they spend much of their lives. Here, they navigate daily exhaustion and fear, shoulder r...

How Urban Indian Feminism Outsources Labour For Freedom

Urban women can lean into ambition because other women — mostly poor women — lean into survival. My feminism, similar to most urban, privileged Indian women, rests quietly on an ec...

Deadly trust: Unregulated workforce where domestic workers kill employers

A disturbing pattern of domestic worker violence against employers is emerging in Nigeria. Learn about the dangers of an unregulated workforce and what exp Read More: https://punc...

Eight Women Farmworkers Killed When Overloaded Pickup Truck Plunges Off Rural Road in China

The crash in Qinghai is the latest in a string of mass-casualty accidents linked to illegal overloading across rural China.

Indonesian migrant fishers hooked by false promises, reeled into slavery on high seas

Lured by promises of good money working aboard a foreign fishing vessel, Akhmad left Indonesia and headed out to sea, enduring months of abuse and exploitation while being cut off...

They were forced into marriage and abused. Now women facing exploitation in China have a glimmer of hope

Female activists are working in the shadows to find and support vulnerable women they fear are being failed by authoritiesLast summer, Xiaocao, a softly spoken woman in her 40s, re...

Beyond Recognition: Why India’s Sex Workers Remain Outside The Safety Net

The Supreme Court has already ruled that sex workers are entitled to dignity and equal protection under the law. However, it requires the Parliament to address a draft bill that ha...

Tamil Nadu Women’s Commission seeks report on Tiruvallur ammonia leak

The Commission observed the victims were predominantly women migrant workers from Odisha and other States, who were not only employed at the factory but were also residing in accom...

Doctors Without Borders investigation finds exploitation by staff in Chad

The organisation employs tens of thousands of workers, local and foreign, to respond to crises across several countries.

Ethiopia’s Textile Industry Women: Creating Jobs and Opportunities

Ethiopia’s textile and garment sector has quietly become one of Africa’s most significant engines of female employment. In a country where roughly two in five people live below the...

Workplace harassment in Pakistan: 521 men filed complaints, transgenders and women also seek redress

Pakistani agri workers in Italy - victims and killers

.

‘Who is going to pay us when we’re replaced by robots?’ The Indian factory workers told to film themselves for AI

When workers had cameras attached to them, they found it funny at first. But novelty soon turned to concernThe first time the factory supervisors handed garment worker Lalita* a he...