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Employment

News, comment and features on employment in the developing world, including unemployment, youth unemployment, labour conditions, domestic workers and migrant workers

July 2024

  • Emma Beddington

    We were promised a 15-hour working week. What’s the hold-up?

    Emma Beddington
    More UK companies are about to trial a four-day week, and all employees could soon get the right to switch off. It’s still just baby steps, writes Emma Beddington
  • Women wearing brightly coloured prints walk through rows of solar panels.

    Green economy could generate 3.3m jobs across Africa by 2030 – report

    Policymakers and funders are being urged to invest in training a workforce to serve the industries of the future

    • TechScape newsletter
      TechScape: Want to know how AI will affect government and politics? The bots have the answers

    • Opinion
      What does a Bollywood star have to do with Indian women’s wellbeing? Everything

      Shrayana Bhattacharya

    • Greece introduces ‘growth-oriented’ six-day working week

June 2024

  • An Indian woman squats down beside a big pile of clay and a mould, with stacks of finished bricks behind her

    Too ill to work, too poor to get better: how debt traps families working at India’s kilns

    Forced to travel far to find gruelling work making bricks, women and children fall sick but cannot access healthcare

May 2024

  • Staff sort plastic bottles on a conveyor belt

    ‘The Body Shop held our hand’: how the troubled British firm helped a recycling startup in India

  • Zahra Joya poses for portrait on a bench in Elthorne Park, London.

    World Press Freedom Day 2024
    ‘They are trying to eradicate us completely’: the passion and pain of telling the stories of Afghan women

April 2024

  • The Australian Border Force logo

    Damning report alleges sexual discrimination and harassment by ABF officers

  • A Bangladeshi man wearing a pair of glasses smiles at the camera. Behind him is a fishpond and fields.

    Having the right glasses could boost earning power by a third, Bangladesh study shows

March 2024

  • Warao girls on their way home from school in Manaus

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Children were dying. We didn’t even have aspirin’: the Indigenous Venezuelans forced far from home

    Economic crisis has driven Warao communities from their traditional life in lush forest to a Brazilian slum
  • Customer support workers in open plan office.

    AI ‘apocalypse’ could take away almost 8m jobs in UK, says report

    Women, younger workers and lower paid are at most risk from artificial intelligence, says IPPR thinktank

    • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
      Green power: young environmentalists look to shake up Panama’s politics

    • EU to crack down on unpaid internships ‘exploiting despair of young people’

    • Rights and freedom
      Another World Cup will be tainted by worker deaths if Fifa fails to act, say rights groups

February 2024

  • People wait in line against a wall to talk to a woman with a notebook and lanyard

    The future of work
    Garment workers have lost out on $4bn of severance pay, says rights group

    The employees, who made clothes for western clothing brands, were legally entitled to the money after losing their jobs

January 2024

  • Everlyne Siololo during routine car clean her work place on 12th October,2023 in Ripoi conservancy Transmara,Narok County in Kenya

    The age of extinction
    ‘We said, there must be ladies’: the pioneering Maasai women ending all-male leadership of the land

    In one Kenyan reserve, women are taking up roles that give them a say in community life and protecting the land they depend on – inspiring a new generation to follow in their footsteps

December 2023

  • Sex discrimination commissioner Dr Anna Cody looking to camera with arms folded

    Australian Human Rights Commission to crack down on employers who fail to actively prevent workplace sexual harassment

  • A smiling woman driving a car with a passenger on the back seat in Lagos, Nigeria

    ‘My friends were amazed’: Nigerian women break ‘male’ jobs barrier amid cost-of-living crisis

November 2023

  • Young people protest at Cop27 in Egypt in 2022.

    The future of work
    Young people can help solve the climate crisis. Let’s give them a seat at the table

    Rachel Ruto and Liesbet Steer
    Success at Cop28 and in the future lies in equipping a new generation to lead the transition to a greener planet. Countries such as Kenya have already laid the groundwork
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