About the campaign
Mourn the dead, and here’s how to fight for the living: let’s make occupational health and safety a fundamental right
On April 28th, International Workers Memorial Day (IWMD), the ITF remembers all those across the world killed at or around their place of work.
The ITF supports the campaign led by the International Trade Union Confederation calling on the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to recognise occupational health and safety as a fundamental right at work. This would fulfil a pledge made at the 2019 ILO Centenary Declaration, adopted unanimously, to ensure OSH for all workers.
#IWMD21 is especially poignant this year as it comes amid a devastating surge in global Covid-19 infections. Last week over 5.8 million new cases of Covid-19 were registered globally, the highest number to date. Many of these infections will have been caught at, or on the commute to or from, people’s workplaces.
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Featured pages
Featured pages
Featured pages Opinion
Featured pages Article
Bangladesh: Clean Clothes Campaign expresses concern over RMG Sustainability Council, calling on Accord signatories to negotiate new legally binding agreement with unions to ensure worker safety
âProtect progress â the Bangladesh Accordâ, April 2021
The Bangladesh garment industry has a long history of factory incidents. The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, created after the Rana Plaza collapse of 2013, has made a real change by making factories safer. The current agreement will run out by the end of May 2021. Action is needed to protect progress made for workplace safety.
IFJ 08 March 2021
Calling on all Trade Unions to ‘To Build and strengthen a World of work free from violence and harassment’
The IFJ joins Global Trade Unions in their call to strengthen female workers rights in the Middle East and Arab countries.
Full statement:
International Women’s Day has been celebrated around the world since 1910. Since that time, we have made a lot of progress in advancing women’s rights and gender equality, but much remain to be done. The Women, Business and Law 2021 Report, published by the World Bank on February 23, reflects the bleak reality of women s human rights equality in our region. The Middle East and North Africa recorded the lowest average inequality around the world at 51.5%. Eight Arab countries came among the ten lowest ranking countries out of 190 countries covered in the report.
ITUC and local affiliates spearhead initiative to protect migrant workers rights ft.lk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ft.lk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.