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No climate justice without labour justice.
A green transition built on exploitation is neither just nor sustainable.
Read Equidem’s Climate Week statement 👉 equidem.org/climate-week...
A green transition built on exploitation is neither just nor sustainable.
Read Equidem’s Climate Week statement 👉 equidem.org/climate-week...
September 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
No climate justice without labour justice.
A green transition built on exploitation is neither just nor sustainable.
Read Equidem’s Climate Week statement 👉 equidem.org/climate-week...
A green transition built on exploitation is neither just nor sustainable.
Read Equidem’s Climate Week statement 👉 equidem.org/climate-week...
1000s of Nepali workers are being sent abroad on visit visas, only to end up in undocumented, unsafe, & exploitative jobs. In his latest piece, Rameshwar Nepal of Equidem exposes how corruption& collusion fuel this system and why urgent reforms are needed.
english.onlinekhabar.com/visit-visas-...
english.onlinekhabar.com/visit-visas-...
August 20, 2025 at 9:44 AM
1000s of Nepali workers are being sent abroad on visit visas, only to end up in undocumented, unsafe, & exploitative jobs. In his latest piece, Rameshwar Nepal of Equidem exposes how corruption& collusion fuel this system and why urgent reforms are needed.
english.onlinekhabar.com/visit-visas-...
english.onlinekhabar.com/visit-visas-...
Read Equidem’s latest blog, released in the context of the UN’s June 2025 call urging states to guarantee decent work and labour protections for migrant domestic workers.
equidem.org/a-house-of-l...
equidem.org/a-house-of-l...
July 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Read Equidem’s latest blog, released in the context of the UN’s June 2025 call urging states to guarantee decent work and labour protections for migrant domestic workers.
equidem.org/a-house-of-l...
equidem.org/a-house-of-l...
What happens when AI workers are exposed to trauma—and silenced by NDAs?
In the Jacobin, Equidem’s Shikha & Nandita reveal how tech firms are fueling a public health crisis by hiding the harm faced by content moderators & data labelers.
jacobin.com/2025/06/ai-m...
In the Jacobin, Equidem’s Shikha & Nandita reveal how tech firms are fueling a public health crisis by hiding the harm faced by content moderators & data labelers.
jacobin.com/2025/06/ai-m...
June 30, 2025 at 6:59 AM
What happens when AI workers are exposed to trauma—and silenced by NDAs?
In the Jacobin, Equidem’s Shikha & Nandita reveal how tech firms are fueling a public health crisis by hiding the harm faced by content moderators & data labelers.
jacobin.com/2025/06/ai-m...
In the Jacobin, Equidem’s Shikha & Nandita reveal how tech firms are fueling a public health crisis by hiding the harm faced by content moderators & data labelers.
jacobin.com/2025/06/ai-m...
AI depends on invisible and exploited labour.
In a new blog for the Institute for Human Rights and Business, Eiffel Abedin from Equidem, expose the harsh, often traumatic conditions faced by content moderators and data labelers across the Global South.
📖 www.ihrb.org/latest/conte...
In a new blog for the Institute for Human Rights and Business, Eiffel Abedin from Equidem, expose the harsh, often traumatic conditions faced by content moderators and data labelers across the Global South.
📖 www.ihrb.org/latest/conte...
June 30, 2025 at 6:45 AM
AI depends on invisible and exploited labour.
In a new blog for the Institute for Human Rights and Business, Eiffel Abedin from Equidem, expose the harsh, often traumatic conditions faced by content moderators and data labelers across the Global South.
📖 www.ihrb.org/latest/conte...
In a new blog for the Institute for Human Rights and Business, Eiffel Abedin from Equidem, expose the harsh, often traumatic conditions faced by content moderators and data labelers across the Global South.
📖 www.ihrb.org/latest/conte...
In Tech Policy Press, Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee and Nandita Shivakumar, drawing on Equidem's latest report, unpack how Big Tech weaponizes NDAs to suppress workers trauma, block labour organizing & dodge corporate accountability.
📰 Read: techpolicy.press/how-ndas-bec...
📰 Read: techpolicy.press/how-ndas-bec...
How NDAs Became the AI Industry’s Tool for Surveillance and Silence | TechPolicy.Press
Nandita Shivakuma and Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee discuss the hidden labor supporting AI development and how NDAs silence these workers.
techpolicy.press
June 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
In Tech Policy Press, Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee and Nandita Shivakumar, drawing on Equidem's latest report, unpack how Big Tech weaponizes NDAs to suppress workers trauma, block labour organizing & dodge corporate accountability.
📰 Read: techpolicy.press/how-ndas-bec...
📰 Read: techpolicy.press/how-ndas-bec...
On #InternationalDomesticWorkersDay, we honour the 75 million domestic workers who keep families, homes, and communities running — yet remain invisible, undervalued, and unprotected.
June 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
On #InternationalDomesticWorkersDay, we honour the 75 million domestic workers who keep families, homes, and communities running — yet remain invisible, undervalued, and unprotected.
Today on #InternationalDomesticWorkersDay, Equidem joins rights groups urging Saudi Arabia to protect over 4M migrant domestic workers — including 1.2M women.
We demand:
⚖️ Equal labour rights
🛑 End to kafala
📜 Ratify ILO Conventions 189 & 190
👁️ Real enforcement & oversight of workers rights
We demand:
⚖️ Equal labour rights
🛑 End to kafala
📜 Ratify ILO Conventions 189 & 190
👁️ Real enforcement & oversight of workers rights
June 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Today on #InternationalDomesticWorkersDay, Equidem joins rights groups urging Saudi Arabia to protect over 4M migrant domestic workers — including 1.2M women.
We demand:
⚖️ Equal labour rights
🛑 End to kafala
📜 Ratify ILO Conventions 189 & 190
👁️ Real enforcement & oversight of workers rights
We demand:
⚖️ Equal labour rights
🛑 End to kafala
📜 Ratify ILO Conventions 189 & 190
👁️ Real enforcement & oversight of workers rights
🚨 Just published: a powerful piece at @techpolicypress.bsky.social co-authored by our Equidem CEO Mustafa Qadri, alongside fellow organizers Chandan Kumar, Anousha Peters, and Aju John—all on the front lines of the fight for platform worker rights.
www.techpolicy.press/gig-workers-...
www.techpolicy.press/gig-workers-...
Gig Workers United: Reimagining Global Justice in the Era of AI | TechPolicy.Press
Platform workers from 28 countries meet in Geneva to ensure their voices are heard as the ILO discusses global labor standards for gig work.
www.techpolicy.press
June 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
🚨 Just published: a powerful piece at @techpolicypress.bsky.social co-authored by our Equidem CEO Mustafa Qadri, alongside fellow organizers Chandan Kumar, Anousha Peters, and Aju John—all on the front lines of the fight for platform worker rights.
www.techpolicy.press/gig-workers-...
www.techpolicy.press/gig-workers-...
JUST LAUNCHED: Joint Declaration on Decent Work in the Platform Economy
As the International Labour Conference 2025 begins we stand united with global unions, CSOs & grassroots worker organizations in calling for strong international standards to protect platform workers.
equidem.org/joint-declar...
As the International Labour Conference 2025 begins we stand united with global unions, CSOs & grassroots worker organizations in calling for strong international standards to protect platform workers.
equidem.org/joint-declar...
June 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
JUST LAUNCHED: Joint Declaration on Decent Work in the Platform Economy
As the International Labour Conference 2025 begins we stand united with global unions, CSOs & grassroots worker organizations in calling for strong international standards to protect platform workers.
equidem.org/joint-declar...
As the International Labour Conference 2025 begins we stand united with global unions, CSOs & grassroots worker organizations in calling for strong international standards to protect platform workers.
equidem.org/joint-declar...
📢 Happening today!
🕐 10 AM EST I 5 PM EAT
📲 Register now: us05web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🎤 Speakers include:
▪️ Two former content moderators
▪️ Ephantus Kanyugi, Data Labelers Association
▪️ Eric Mwezi Manzi, ITUC
▪️ Mylene Cabalona, BIEN Pilipinas
▪️ Mustafa Qadri, Equidem
🕐 10 AM EST I 5 PM EAT
📲 Register now: us05web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🎤 Speakers include:
▪️ Two former content moderators
▪️ Ephantus Kanyugi, Data Labelers Association
▪️ Eric Mwezi Manzi, ITUC
▪️ Mylene Cabalona, BIEN Pilipinas
▪️ Mustafa Qadri, Equidem
This Wednesday, we’re launching one of the most important multi-country investigations into the digital labour powering today’s tech.
'Scroll. Click. Suffer' exposes the brutal realities faced by the invisible workforce behind your AI tools and platforms.
Register: us05web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
'Scroll. Click. Suffer' exposes the brutal realities faced by the invisible workforce behind your AI tools and platforms.
Register: us05web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
May 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
📢 Happening today!
🕐 10 AM EST I 5 PM EAT
📲 Register now: us05web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🎤 Speakers include:
▪️ Two former content moderators
▪️ Ephantus Kanyugi, Data Labelers Association
▪️ Eric Mwezi Manzi, ITUC
▪️ Mylene Cabalona, BIEN Pilipinas
▪️ Mustafa Qadri, Equidem
🕐 10 AM EST I 5 PM EAT
📲 Register now: us05web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🎤 Speakers include:
▪️ Two former content moderators
▪️ Ephantus Kanyugi, Data Labelers Association
▪️ Eric Mwezi Manzi, ITUC
▪️ Mylene Cabalona, BIEN Pilipinas
▪️ Mustafa Qadri, Equidem
This Wednesday, we’re launching one of the most important multi-country investigations into the digital labour powering today’s tech.
'Scroll. Click. Suffer' exposes the brutal realities faced by the invisible workforce behind your AI tools and platforms.
Register: us05web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
'Scroll. Click. Suffer' exposes the brutal realities faced by the invisible workforce behind your AI tools and platforms.
Register: us05web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
May 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
This Wednesday, we’re launching one of the most important multi-country investigations into the digital labour powering today’s tech.
'Scroll. Click. Suffer' exposes the brutal realities faced by the invisible workforce behind your AI tools and platforms.
Register: us05web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
'Scroll. Click. Suffer' exposes the brutal realities faced by the invisible workforce behind your AI tools and platforms.
Register: us05web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Today, on International Workers’ Day, we pause to honour the strength and courage of workers everywhere.
A better world is not just possible — it’s necessary. And together, we will build it.
A better world is not just possible — it’s necessary. And together, we will build it.
May 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Today, on International Workers’ Day, we pause to honour the strength and courage of workers everywhere.
A better world is not just possible — it’s necessary. And together, we will build it.
A better world is not just possible — it’s necessary. And together, we will build it.
“We were promised hospital jobs. Instead, we were trafficked, abused, and abandoned.”
That’s what Kenyan nurses in Saudi Arabia told Geoffrey Otieno—our colleague + survivor of modern slavery.
He helped them return home.
👉 Full story: equidem.org/betrayed-abr...
That’s what Kenyan nurses in Saudi Arabia told Geoffrey Otieno—our colleague + survivor of modern slavery.
He helped them return home.
👉 Full story: equidem.org/betrayed-abr...
March 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
“We were promised hospital jobs. Instead, we were trafficked, abused, and abandoned.”
That’s what Kenyan nurses in Saudi Arabia told Geoffrey Otieno—our colleague + survivor of modern slavery.
He helped them return home.
👉 Full story: equidem.org/betrayed-abr...
That’s what Kenyan nurses in Saudi Arabia told Geoffrey Otieno—our colleague + survivor of modern slavery.
He helped them return home.
👉 Full story: equidem.org/betrayed-abr...
Martha Waithira, a former domestic worker in #Qatar and an investigator with #Equidem, delivered a powerful speech to the 58th session of the Human Rights Council on the outcomes of Qatar’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on behalf of the Coalition on Labor Justice for Migrants in the Gulf./1
March 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
📢 Saudi Arabia Chairs the UN Commission on the Status of Women – While Abusing Migrant Women Workers
New Equidem Briefing paper Exposes the Truth.
Read now : equidem.org/reports/shat...
New Equidem Briefing paper Exposes the Truth.
Read now : equidem.org/reports/shat...
March 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
📢 Saudi Arabia Chairs the UN Commission on the Status of Women – While Abusing Migrant Women Workers
New Equidem Briefing paper Exposes the Truth.
Read now : equidem.org/reports/shat...
New Equidem Briefing paper Exposes the Truth.
Read now : equidem.org/reports/shat...
1️⃣ 📢New Equidem Brief
As Saudi Arabia chairs the UN Commission on the Status of Women, Equidem exposes forced labour, gender-based violence & racial discrimination against Ethiopian, Kenyan & Ugandan women in the Gulf.
📢 Read: equidem.org/reports/shat...
As Saudi Arabia chairs the UN Commission on the Status of Women, Equidem exposes forced labour, gender-based violence & racial discrimination against Ethiopian, Kenyan & Ugandan women in the Gulf.
📢 Read: equidem.org/reports/shat...
March 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
1️⃣ 📢New Equidem Brief
As Saudi Arabia chairs the UN Commission on the Status of Women, Equidem exposes forced labour, gender-based violence & racial discrimination against Ethiopian, Kenyan & Ugandan women in the Gulf.
📢 Read: equidem.org/reports/shat...
As Saudi Arabia chairs the UN Commission on the Status of Women, Equidem exposes forced labour, gender-based violence & racial discrimination against Ethiopian, Kenyan & Ugandan women in the Gulf.
📢 Read: equidem.org/reports/shat...
Reposted by Equidem
Migrant workers in the GCC have limited access to legal or governmental protection to exercise their labor rights. That’s why we formed the first-ever labor-led coalition fighting for the rights of migrant workers in the Gulf.
Check out our new website to learn more: laborjusticegulfmigrants.org
Check out our new website to learn more: laborjusticegulfmigrants.org
March 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Migrant workers in the GCC have limited access to legal or governmental protection to exercise their labor rights. That’s why we formed the first-ever labor-led coalition fighting for the rights of migrant workers in the Gulf.
Check out our new website to learn more: laborjusticegulfmigrants.org
Check out our new website to learn more: laborjusticegulfmigrants.org
The Coalition on Labor Justice for Migrants in the Gulf is excited to launch its website: a hub for global advocacy & action to demand labor justice for 31 million migrant workers in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region.
laborjusticegulfmigrants.org
laborjusticegulfmigrants.org
March 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The Coalition on Labor Justice for Migrants in the Gulf is excited to launch its website: a hub for global advocacy & action to demand labor justice for 31 million migrant workers in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region.
laborjusticegulfmigrants.org
laborjusticegulfmigrants.org
New research by Equidem & BHRRC exposes labor abuse in Gulf renewable energy projects:
❗ 60–72 hour workweeks
❗ Up to 19 workers crammed into single rooms
❗ Subcontracting to dodge labour protections
🌍 Can clean energy be sustainable if built on exploitation?
📖 Read: www.equidem.org/reports/rush...
❗ 60–72 hour workweeks
❗ Up to 19 workers crammed into single rooms
❗ Subcontracting to dodge labour protections
🌍 Can clean energy be sustainable if built on exploitation?
📖 Read: www.equidem.org/reports/rush...
January 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
New research by Equidem & BHRRC exposes labor abuse in Gulf renewable energy projects:
❗ 60–72 hour workweeks
❗ Up to 19 workers crammed into single rooms
❗ Subcontracting to dodge labour protections
🌍 Can clean energy be sustainable if built on exploitation?
📖 Read: www.equidem.org/reports/rush...
❗ 60–72 hour workweeks
❗ Up to 19 workers crammed into single rooms
❗ Subcontracting to dodge labour protections
🌍 Can clean energy be sustainable if built on exploitation?
📖 Read: www.equidem.org/reports/rush...
🌡️ A Deadly Threshold: Workers at Risk
Across industrial sectors, workers are enduring extreme heat as wet-bulb temperatures exceed the safe threshold of 32.1°C—conditions where the body’s cooling system fails, leading to severe health risks and even death. 🧵
Across industrial sectors, workers are enduring extreme heat as wet-bulb temperatures exceed the safe threshold of 32.1°C—conditions where the body’s cooling system fails, leading to severe health risks and even death. 🧵
January 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
🌡️ A Deadly Threshold: Workers at Risk
Across industrial sectors, workers are enduring extreme heat as wet-bulb temperatures exceed the safe threshold of 32.1°C—conditions where the body’s cooling system fails, leading to severe health risks and even death. 🧵
Across industrial sectors, workers are enduring extreme heat as wet-bulb temperatures exceed the safe threshold of 32.1°C—conditions where the body’s cooling system fails, leading to severe health risks and even death. 🧵
🧵 1/3 As Gulf countries race to build solar farms and wind turbines, the human cost of this "green" transformation remains hidden. Many workers first fled climate disasters in their home countries - only to face temperatures of 55°C (131°F) while building renewable energy projects.
January 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🧵 1/3 As Gulf countries race to build solar farms and wind turbines, the human cost of this "green" transformation remains hidden. Many workers first fled climate disasters in their home countries - only to face temperatures of 55°C (131°F) while building renewable energy projects.
🔍 Honored to be featured in Devex News, highlighting our work at the crucial intersection of climate change and labor rights.
Climate change is not only reshaping our environment—it’s also transforming workplaces and driving migration, with women and migrants bearing the brunt of its impacts./1
Climate change is not only reshaping our environment—it’s also transforming workplaces and driving migration, with women and migrants bearing the brunt of its impacts./1
January 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
🔍 Honored to be featured in Devex News, highlighting our work at the crucial intersection of climate change and labor rights.
Climate change is not only reshaping our environment—it’s also transforming workplaces and driving migration, with women and migrants bearing the brunt of its impacts./1
Climate change is not only reshaping our environment—it’s also transforming workplaces and driving migration, with women and migrants bearing the brunt of its impacts./1
🚨 Equidem joins 20+ organizations in condemning FIFA's decision to award the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia. Ignoring the risks to workers, residents, and fans is a betrayal of FIFA’s own policies. This will lead to exploitation and injustice. #FIFA
www.equidem.org/blogs/joint-...
www.equidem.org/blogs/joint-...
December 11, 2024 at 4:37 PM
🚨 Equidem joins 20+ organizations in condemning FIFA's decision to award the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia. Ignoring the risks to workers, residents, and fans is a betrayal of FIFA’s own policies. This will lead to exploitation and injustice. #FIFA
www.equidem.org/blogs/joint-...
www.equidem.org/blogs/joint-...