The Global Compact for Migration is supposed to put gender concerns front and centre, but as the negotiations draw to a close it is clear that this has not happened.

The people making clothes for export in Cambodia are fainting at their posts. Why?

Political and economic education is pitiful, and via political parties, the education system and trade unions, it desperately needs to be revived.

New Zealand is lauded as the world's only country to fully decriminalise sex work, yet a catch makes that of little comfort to the temporary migrants working in the trade.

The human right to identity of countless undocumented migrant bodies is being disregarded by the inadequate body management and identification efforts – more must be done. 

We need a binding global convention on violence and harassment in the world of work.

Research from Nasc sheds light on the treatment of those refused ‘leave to land’ at Irish borders and individuals held in detention for immigration-related purposes.

Domestic workers and farmworker women join forces to end sexual violence in their industries, leaving no one behind.

A regional study interrogates some of the commonly held assumptions about which factors lead to better outcomes for migrant workers.

The world is aiming to have ‘decent work for all’ by 2030. What could that look like for one of the most stigmatised professions in the world?

An eyewitness account and analysis of what it means for French customs officials to force a Nigerian man to urinate in Italy. 

Millions of women work in the Indian informal sector, but very few have a voice at the table. One labour organiser explains their challenges and what they really need from western allies.

Invisible coercion through withheld wages, lack of employment contracts, and discrimi-nation of migrant workers is widespread in China's construction sector.

Two years ago Chios transformed from a waypoint into a detention centre. A local resident asks, was stripping the island of its humanity worth it? 

The time is up for corporate leaders who turn a blind eye to gender-based violence and labour abuses in their supply chain. 

The UAE, like many other Arabian Gulf States, claims to be home to a homogenous Arab population. In doing so it assimilates rather than acknowledges the region’s slave past.

Connected first by a slave-master relationship and now by geographical proximity, the ‘white’ and ‘black’ populations of Ghbonton, Tunisia have a complex relationship with each other.