Despite a landmark ruling, Kenya’s Ogiek community are still fighting to return to their ancestral land
The Ogiek have been the custodians of Kenya’s Mau Forest long before the state of Kenya even existed. However, waves of encroachment and evictions have left the Ogiek marginalised and increasingly landless, while the forest has been degraded by logging and agricultural activities.
(Jason Taylor/International Land Coalition
)
10 March 2021
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The Ogiek have been the custodians of Kenya’s Mau Forest long before the state of Kenya even existed. However, waves of encroachment and evictions have left the Ogiek marginalised and increasingly landless, while the forest has been degraded by logging and agricultural activities.
Is the Jamaican government giving BPO investors the “green light to disregard labour laws”?
There are currently 40,000 workers in Jamaica’s global services industry; the government is aiming for 300,000 jobs in the industry by 2030. But “at what cost?” trade unions are asking.
(Alamy/Artur Marciniec
)
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There are currently 40,000 workers in Jamaica’s global services industry; the government is aiming for 300,000 jobs in the industry by 2030. But “at what cost?” trade unions are asking.
(Alamy/Artur Marciniec
)
With tens of thousands of jobs linked to the tourism sector lost due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Jamaican government has heralded the island’s fast-expanding business process outsourcing (BPO) sector as a much-needed source of jobs. However, there are major concerns about the widespread breech of workers’ rights in the sector. Of the 40,000 BPO workers in Jamaica – whose roles vary from customer services to technical support, sales
Laura Baena: “In this patriarchal society, men are seen as heroes and women as bad mothers”
“We are fighting to ensure that, in the future, balancing motherhood with work won’t be a utopia for our daughters,” says Laura Baena of Spain. This publicist by training ended up leaving her career behind to take care of her three daughters and founded
Club de Malasmadres (The Bad Mothers’Club), which has already been joined by over a million women.
(Orlando Gutiérrez
)
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“We are fighting to ensure that, in the future, balancing motherhood with work won’t be a utopia for our daughters,” says Laura Baena of Spain. This publicist by training ended up leaving her career behind to take care of her three daughters and founded
In Ecuador, abaca workers are demanding justice and an end to 60 years of modern slavery
A teenage boy transports bundles of abaca fibre from the harvesting site to the machines where they will be processed. Known as burreros, these workers are usually men with little experience, woman or children.
(Marco Gaete
)
22 February 2021
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A teenage boy transports bundles of abaca fibre from the harvesting site to the machines where they will be processed. Known as burreros, these workers are usually men with little experience, woman or children.
(Marco Gaete
)
In December 2003, after 30 years spent labouring on an abaca plantation, Susana Quiñonez finally summoned the courage to demand better working conditions from her employer, the Japanese-owned Ecuadorian company Furukawa. The company’s reaction was harsh: far from simply ignoring her request, it went so far as to send the police to evict her from the plantation where she and her family were living. Susana’s