City limits: Pakistan’s poor return to villages as prices spiral
As Pakistan’s cost-of-living crisis deepens, some poor families leave cities to eke out cheaper existences in village homes. ZOFEEN T EBRAHIM and WAQAR MUSTAFA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report…
Gig economy: Workers hit by high fuel prices and layoffs
RINA CHANDRAN and MENNA A FAROUK, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on how high fuel prices, income cuts, and a global economic slowdown have put gig workers in a precarious position…
Act swiftly and fairly to ease shift from fossil fuels, say labour experts
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation From retraining coal miners in solar tech to job programs focused on tree-planting, companies and governments must act fast to implement measures promoting a so-called just transition away from fossil fuels, labour rights experts said last week. Failure to quickly pull finance out of fossil fuel industries or explain to workers […]
Labour rights: Bangladesh’s hazardous shipyards launch race for cleaner, safer future
NAIMUL KARIM, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on progress to clean-up the ship-breaking industry…
Wow!: How India’s non-profit buses are a lifeline to jobs for villagers
ROLI SRIVASTAVA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how non-profit bus lines are helping workers get back to their jobs…
Violence at Apple supplier in India fuels fears of further worker unrest
Chennai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation The ransacking of an iPhone manufacturer in southern India could be the first of many “flashpoints” involving local workers in the supply chains of major brands, researchers said this week, pointing to a lack of rights and recourse under new labour laws. Thousands of contract workers in India’s tech hub of […]
Virus-idled Indian workers dig into a new job: boosting water security
Sagar, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Basant Ahirwar worked as an expert mason in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state before the country’s coronavirus lockdown shut down business and forced him to return, jobless and largely on foot, to his home in central India’s Madhya Pradesh state. Now, however, he has found new work: Digging water capture pits […]
Life with coronavirus: Back to work? Not without a check-in app, immunity passport
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how nations are using technology to enable people to keep safe even as they head back to work…
Major Thai coffee brand vows to repay 200 debt-ridden farmers
Chiang Rai, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation A major Thai coffee brand has vowed to repay about 200 farmers who were forced to take out loans while waiting nearly three years for payment, leaving them with spiralling debts. Doi Chaang Coffee – which has more than 50 franchises in South-East Asia – said it would pay about […]
LABOUR RIGHTS: BABY OR A JOB? TAIWAN’S MIGRANT WORKERS FACE A STARK CHOICE
NICK ASPINWALL, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Taipei…