• UAE: Report Highlights Need for Worker Protections
    Sep 27, 2012
    A report by an independent monitor underscores the need for companies involved in the United Arab Emirates’ Saadiyat Island project to ensure that their projects comply with international labor standards for migrant workers.
  • Domestic Workers Convention: Labor Rights Treaty to Take Effect
    Aug 6, 2012
    The Philippines’ ratification of the Domestic Workers Convention will bring the groundbreaking international treaty into legal force, promising better working conditions and key labor protections for millions of domestic workers. The convention takes effect one year after the second ratification.
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Migrants, Forced Labor

  • Singapore: Drop Charges Against Bus Strike Leaders
    Dec 5, 2012
    Singapore authorities should immediately drop charges against four migrant Chinese bus drivers who face trial on December 6, 2012, for leading a two-day work stoppage.
  • UAE: Report Highlights Need for Worker Protections
    Sep 27, 2012
    A report by an independent monitor underscores the need for companies involved in the United Arab Emirates’ Saadiyat Island project to ensure that their projects comply with international labor standards for migrant workers.
  • Domestic Workers Convention: Labor Rights Treaty to Take Effect
    Aug 6, 2012
    The Philippines’ ratification of the Domestic Workers Convention will bring the groundbreaking international treaty into legal force, promising better working conditions and key labor protections for millions of domestic workers. The convention takes effect one year after the second ratification.
  • Russia: As Olympics Launch, Sochi Abuses Loom
    Jul 16, 2012
    Russia’s preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi should be carried out with full respect for human rights, in particular for those engaged in or affected by Olympic construction.
  • Plight of Domestic Workers Still Forgotten in the Sex Abuse Debate
    Jun 28, 2012
  • Central Asia: Five Years of EU Engagement
    Jun 20, 2012
    The European Union’s (EU) effectiveness to promote rights improvements in Central Asia is hampered by its reticence to articulate clear expectations for reform and follow through with policy consequences when those expectations are not met.
  • Uzbekistan: US Report Fails Child Labor Victims
    Jun 20, 2012
    The United States government’s decision not to cite Uzbekistan for its widespread practice of forced and child labor in the country’s cotton sector sends the wrong message to the Uzbek government.
  • Uzbekistan: Joint Letter regarding US Failure to Downgrade Uzbekistan's TIP Tier Status
    Jun 19, 2012
    We write to express our sincere disappointment that the State Department once again did not downgrade Uzbekistan to Tier III in the 2012 Trafficking in Persons Report, and we call on the U.S. government to urge the Uzbek government to immediately invite the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to conduct unfettered monitoring of the 2012 cotton harvest. In 2011 and years prior, the Uzbek government-controlled system of cotton production forced more than a million adults and children to pick cotton.
  • Around the world in 18-hour days
    Jun 18, 2012
  • Response Letter to Mr. Mike Duke, President of Walmart Stores Inc.
    May 31, 2012

    As stated in our April 16 letter, Human Rights Watch has received credible information about serious labor rights abuses at a Phatthana shrimp-processing factory located in Muang district, Songkhla province, in Thailand. We have also received credible information indicating that the Phatthana factory in Songkhla has supplied shrimp for Walmart or the Walmart-owned company Sam’s Club.

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