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Allison Corkery
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Director, Law Programme at WIEGO - Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing. Global Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity.
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#Palestine is a mirror held up to the world’s moral & political failures.
Ending this genocide requires not only outrage but rupture, reckoning & the courage to dismantle what enables it - urges UN Special Rapporteur @franceskalbs.bsky.social in her new report.
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July 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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2B+ people work informally worldwide—not by choice, but necessity. Governments must support them with rights-based formalization: decent work, social protection & collective bargaining.

👉 Read the full Global Position Paper on Formalization text here: www.bit.ly/IAWP-ILC2025

#ILC2025
June 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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🌍 The future of waste picker inclusion in Kenya’s EPR system is at a crossroads. While the 2022 Waste Management Act promises shared responsibility, informal waste pickers risk being sidelined. A just transition means integrating them for a cleaner, fairer economy! 🌱💪

#WastePickers #EPR
The future of waste picker inclusion in the face of Extended Producer Responsibility
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) under Kenya’s 2022 Sustainable Waste Management Act promises shared responsibility by holding manufacturers accountable for financing and organising the manageme...
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June 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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The Advisory Opinion by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the #ClimateEmergency recognizes the right to a ‘healthy climate’ & lays out a path for urgent action to protect the climate system & human rights of present & future generations

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Inter-American Court: States Must Act on “Climate Emergency”
(San Francisco, July 7, 2025) – All members of the Organization of American States, including the United States and Canada, should take urgent steps to implement the July 3 advisory opinion on climate...
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July 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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OPINION | by @bertdewel.bsky.social & Boitumelo Molete (COSATU)

#JustTransition #TradeUnion #COP30 #UNFCCC #SB62 #ClimateJustice #WorkersRights #NDCs #ClimateAction @ituc.bsky.social

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Workers want a just transition at COP30 in Belém
The UN climate negotiations that took place in Bonn this June did not bring the progress that is needed to stop the climate emergency, nor did it take the devastating impact of climate change on worke...
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July 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is developing a thematic report on the reduction of methane emissions in the waste sector and the protection of waste pickers’ #HumanRights.

Find out more about this critical process and how to participate: www.wiego.org/news/interam...
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Launches Consultation on Methane Reduction & Inclusive Waste Management
Earlier this month, the Office of the Special Rapporteur on Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights (REDESCA) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) launched an online qu...
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July 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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What will it take to deliver decent work today—and tomorrow?

At the ILO’s Regulating for Decent Work Conference, experts explored solutions for decent employment, worker agency & stronger labour institutions.

Watch the sessions on ILO Live: live.ilo.org/group/9th-re...
July 4, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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A welcome announcement! States’ fiscal capacity is critical for protecting #LabourRights4AllWorkers.
newsfromoxfam.bsky.social Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · Jul 1
REACTION: Oxfam welcomes Brazil, Spain and South Africa’s new coalition to tax the super-rich, launched today at #FFD4.

Tackling extreme inequality is vital to fund development goals.

Now other countries must follow their lead.

👉 oxf.am/tax-rich-ffd
In a tense geopolitical environment, Spain, Brazil and South Africa have taken an important step in forging an alliance here at the UN conference in Sevilla to show political will for taxation of the super-rich. Now other countries must follow their lead and join forces.
July 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
acorkery.bsky.social
Workers in the informal economy need to be able to bargain collectively. How?

🚫 Don’t conflate collective bargaining with social dialogue
✅ Recognise they can, and do, bargain
📢 Remove legal barriers that make it difficult

Read more at @equaltimes.bsky.social

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Collective bargaining laws need to be front and centre in formalisation efforts
Collective bargaining must be at the heart of the upcoming International Labour Conference (ILC), as member states confront the sluggish progress made worldwide towards formalisation of the informal e...
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June 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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It’s great to see this @hrw.org report out.

‘The Gig Trap’:
Algorithmic, Wage and Labor Exploitation in Platform Work in the US

www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

Congratulations @lenasimet.bsky.social @amostoh.bsky.social @abacci.bsky.social
Cover image of HRW report “‘The Gig Trap’: Algorithmic, Wage and Labor Exploitation in Platform Work in the US” graphic of a bike delivery rider juxtaposed against star ratings and incoming orders © 2025 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch
May 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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“Major funding sources...have been cut back...States have also passed laws to make it harder for organisations to receive international funding.”

CIVICUS’s 2025 State of Civil Society Report highlights a “growing crisis of resourcing” for CSOs. But the human rights movement is persevering.
April 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Women workers in #Indonesia, with support from WRC, Asia Floor Wage Alliance & @globallaborjustice.bsky.social, have signed the new Central Java Agreement for Gender Justice. A model for ending #GBVH in supply chains—through binding, enforceable agreements. #GBVH #LaborRights tinyurl.com/39y35prx
From Fear to Power: How Indonesian Women Workers Won Binding Commitments for Change - Worker Rights Consortium
Worker Rights Consortium
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March 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Big Corporations are using SLAPP suits - Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation -to silence & intimidate civil society. These legal threats jeopardize free speech and civic action. Oxfam stands with those who challenge corporate power.

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The North Dakota ruling against Greenpeace is a threat to free speech | Sushma Raman and Anthony Romero
Everyday actions like attending a protest, signing a letter of support, or supporting communities at risk should never be considered ‘unlawful’
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March 28, 2025 at 5:46 AM
acorkery.bsky.social
It's #SocialJusticeDay, a good day to say #NoToOmnibus and #YesToCSDDD.

This open letter explains why curtailing the scope of #DueDiligence risks the #HumanRights of millions of women #Homeworkers in global supply chains: www.wiego.org/advocacy-wor...
Open Letter to EU Commission re: Impact of Omnibus Proposal on Homeworkers
As the European Union (EU) Commission considers an Omnibus proposal that will potentially water down the human rights protection of millions of workers in global supply chains (via changes to the EU C...
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February 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM