Processes of gendered exploitation within villages are integral to world-historical capitalism. Analysing them informs pathways to change. This article illustrates three forms of ‘everyday ...

Tomoya Obokata is the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of Slavery, including its causes and consequences, since March 2020. He is a Japanese scholar of international law and human rights, ...

On May 1, as the world commemorates International Labour Day to honour the dignity of work and workers’ rights, the stories of millions in India trapped in bonded labour cast a dark shadow. In a quiet ...

The wealth of white South Africa was first built on the expropriation of land, and then the exploitation of black labour, much of it migrant labour. The lives of men from places like Sul do Save in ...

Pakistan, June 13 -- President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday urged parents and employers to make joint efforts to eliminate child labour, as the country observed World ...

JAKARTA, June 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Food and beverage giant PepsiCo's affiliate in Indonesia has been linked to child labour, worker exploitation, unethically low wages and hazardous ...

The Punjab Labour Code (PLC) by the provincial government, under the guise of consolidating labour laws, was introduced as an attempt to combine various labour laws enacted between 1923 and 2023.