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To reach their place of work, Nepalese international workers must often pay fees for airfares, recruitment agencies, medical exams and orientation training. There are also often long and costly waiting times for passports and visas.

Data & Reports , Featured , Gender , Human Rights , Labour , Sustainable Development / 11/26/2018

Global wage growth lowest since 2008: ILO

But, in many low- and middle-income economies, wage inequality remains high and wages are frequently insufficient to cover the needs of workers and their families.

Business , Environment , Labour , Sustainable Development , Waste , Water / 11/26/2018

Textile industry under pressure to detox fashion

Wu Yixiu Leading brands are removing toxic chemicals from their Chinese supply chains, but they can’t do it alone The 21st century has been good to the textile industry. Global clothing production doubled between 2000 and 2017 to surpass 100 billion items annually for the first ti

Business , Cities , Environment , Labour , Resources , Science & Technology , Sustainable Development / 10/10/2018

Why do we demolish buildings instead of de-constructing them for reuse?

Nate Berg Dismantling buildings piece by piece to preserve the reusable parts within keeps materials out of landfills and creates more jobs that demolition. Just a few years after starting a non-profit reselling used building materials in the early 1990s, Ted Reiff’s organization, The ReUse Peopl

Biodiversity , Data & Reports , Environment , Forests , Health , Labour , Sustainable Development / 08/01/2018

One in Seven Wildlife Rangers Have Been Seriously Injured in the Line of Duty Over the Past Year

New results released by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to mark World Ranger Day reveal that one in seven wildlife rangers (14 percent) surveyed across Asia and Central Africa have been seriously injured at work within the last 12 months. The results, part of the largest ever survey on ranger employment c

Business , Environment , Human Rights , Labour , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 07/14/2018

Supply Chain Accountability in Apparel Industry

Vivek K.Singh Challenges, even threats, remain in the accountability of supply chains, notably in the apparel industry. This is what Vivek K.Singh, a sustainability expert living in India, tells Your Public Value today. Although five years have passed since Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza tragedy tha

Environment , Governance , Human Rights , Labour , Sustainable Development / 05/16/2018

U.S. environmental groups are largely white. Here’s what some are — and some aren’t — doing about it.

Virginia Gewin There are still relatively few connections between communities of color and the environmental sector. The ongoing lack of ethnic diversity on environmental organization boards and staff suggests that, overall, talk of increasing diversity has not turned into widespread action. Eddie L

Aid , Business , Data & Reports , Featured , Human Rights , Labour , Sustainable Development / 01/22/2018

Corporate CEO’s earn a workers lifetime salary in less than a week

Richest 1 percent bagged 82 percent of wealth created last year – poorest half of humanity got nothing Eighty two percent of the wealth generated last year went to the richest one percent of the global population, while the 3.7 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world saw no in

Aid , Labour , Migration , Opinions , Sustainable Development / 10/04/2017

Discrimination vs Diversity: trying to work for an NGO or government agency in Germany

Germany has a significant number of highly skilled and professional migrants in the social sector but they face employment barriers in German NGOs and CSOs. I’m a German citizen. I am also a migrant – maybe not one that’s in high demand but certainly one with the right skill-sets

Labour , Sustainable Development / 08/03/2017

The Guardian on seasonal workers: poor journalism

Stephen Howes It’s pretty odd to write an article about foreign farm workers and then exclude the vast majority of them. It’s even stranger when the article is about worker exploitation, and research has found that backpackers are more likely to be exploited than seasonal workers. Ben Doherty’

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