The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) to be held next year in Rio de Janeiro gives the opportunity to create institutions to defend the rights of the future generations, according to representatives of civil society from all over the world who contributted to the Social Watch Report 2012, launched in New York on [...]
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou announced plans to reduce the work week and restrict unpaid leave as he battles slower economic growth, in a move the opposition said was a campaign ploy ahead of January elections, according to the Bloomberg Businessweek. The government proposed cutting the work week from 84 hours every two weeks to 40 [...]
To mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the ITUC and its affiliated organisations are mobilising across the globe to say ’stop violence, impunity and sexual harassment at work’. “The trade union movement feels particularly concerned by violence against women, be it in the private or public sphere or at work,” said [...]
One of the members of CAW from Thailand, Thai Labour Campaign (TLC) has opened a centre near Bangpa-In Industrial Estate since early October to help the workers affected by flood water. Together with Thai Labour Solidarity Committee, and cooperating with labour groups from Ayutthaya and nearby areas, the centre has been helping workers from Rojana, [...]
Bangkok could be drained of water in 11 days, says the Irrigation Department, presenting good news to an anxious city for the first time since northern floodwaters entered the capital. Nearly half of the northern runoff which has devastated farmland and industrial estates and flooded parts of the capital has now flowed into the sea [...]
The flood water run-off north of Bangkok has broken a flood barrier next to Sukhumvit Road Soi 50, as the waters inch closer to the heart of Bangkok. Prior to this, most flooded areas were in outlying areas of the capital, such as Bang Plad district and Charun Sanidwong Road in the western part of [...]
Bangkok governor Sukhumbhand Palibatra last night advised Bangkok residents to stay calm and keep monitoring the situation in the next 48 hours in a televised solemn flood warning, according to the Nation news agency. While government is trying very hard to protect inner Bangkok City, the surrounding outskirt areas are already inundated due to the [...]
Bangkokians got into full flood preparedness mode on Saturday, as city residents started stockpiling food supplies and moving their vehicles to safe ground. The overnight rainfall which caused flooding in some parts of the city, coupled with Friday’s national address by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra admitting that the government was almost at its wits’ end [...]
Textile and garment units across Vietnam will raise the minimum salary for their employees by up to 30 percent under the first-ever collective labour pact between a trade union and the textile association, according to the Vietnam Business News. The agreement, which will be applied on a trial basis, comprises 14 conditions and terms on [...]
In detention centers all over Vietnam, some 40,000 men, women, and children are being held against their will and forced to labour for the Vietnamese government. The victims are held without a hearing or a trial in a court of law in drug detention centers on suspicion of using illegal drugs. Most detainees are picked [...]
