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International Labour Organization website:

International Labour Organization (ILO) website   

• Business and Decent Work  

• Database of Legislative Texts on Occupational Safety and Health [more than 3500 (as of 2001) laws, regulations and international legal instruments dealing with OSH matters in approximately 140 countries and international organizations, plus references to the ILO's OSH-related conventions] (International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre, International Labour Organization)

• How to find international and national labour law (International Labour Organization)

  • {···français} Comment trouver de l'information sur le droit national et international du travail (Organisation internationale du Travail)

• Human.Rights@Work: A monthly newsletter produced by the ILO Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV)

• ILO Programme on Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy

• International Institute for Labour Studies

• Multinational Enterprises 

• SafeWork: Codes of Practice - ILO Codes of Practice contain practical recommendations intended for all those with a responsibility for occupational safety and health in both the public and private sectors. (International Labour Organization, InFocus Programme on Safety and Health at Work and the Environment)

  • {···español} SafeWork: Repertorios de recomendaciones prácticas (Organización Internacional del Trabajo)
  • {···français} SafeWork: Recueils de directives pratiques (Organisation Internationale du Travail)
  • {···español} Centro internacional de información sobre seguridad y salud en el trabajo (CIS) (Organización Internacional del Trabajo)

• Training tools: Labour information centres and libraries: Use our guides and manuals to strengthen your labour information skills! (International Labour Organization)

  • {···español} Herramientas de formación: Bibliotecas y Centros de Informacion Laboral : Mejore su capacidad utilizando nuestras guías y manuales! (Organización Internacional del Trabajo)
   
  • {···français} Centres d'information et bibliothèques dans le domaine social: Renforcez vos compétences en vous servant de nos guides et manuels! (Organisation internationale du Travail)

• World of Work: The magazine of the ILO (International Labour Organization)

United Nations website:

The Rights of Migrant Workers [Fact Sheet No. 24] (U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights)

• {···español: Los Derechos de los Trabajadores Migratorios}

• {···français: Les droits des travailleurs migrants} 

Other websites (see also websites of labour organisations in "Links - Human rights / development / other NGOs"):

Amnesty International documents: Trade unions

• {···français: Documents sur le travail}

Asia Monitor Resource Center  

• Research reports (Asia Monitor Resource Center)

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates [California]

Associated British Foods: Ethical Procurement - ABF seeks to develop relationships with supplier companies consistent with the basic principles as set out above, and specifically with respect to human rights and conditions of employment. Where supplier audits show shortcomings in any of these areas we will strive to encourage a programme of improvement leading to compliance. (Associated British Foods)

Banana Worker Campaigns (US/LEAP - U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project)

BehindTheLabel.org

Burma Action: Burmese Labor Leaders Jailed, Beaten and Tortured for Union Activism (Labor Rights Now!)

Campaign for Labor Rights

CCC [Clean Clothes Campaign] Task Force Of TamilNadu [India]: to work for the interest of workers in garment and its allied industries

China Action: Labor Rights Now! is calling for the immediate and unconditional release of all jailed trade unionists in China. (Labor Rights Now!)

Clean Clothes Campaign

Coffee Worker Campaigns (US/LEAP - U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project)

Colombia Action: In 2001 alone, 143 trade unionists were murdered, and many more have been kidnapped or have disappeared. The numbers increase on a weekly basis. (Labor Rights Now!)

Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights [addressing labor issues in the production of University of Michigan goods] (University of Michigan)

Companies (Banana Link: "working for sustainable production and trade in bananas")

• Companies: Del Monte (Banana Link)

• Companies: Chiquita (Banana Link)

• Companies: Dole (Banana Link)

• Companies: Fyffes (Banana Link)

• Companies: Geest (Banana Link)

• Companies: Noboa (Banana Link)

• Companies: Other National Companies (Banana Link)

Companies linked with Burma (Global Unions)

Co-op America's Sweatshops.org

Cuba Today: Best Business Practices and Labor Rights (National Policy Association)

Dignity in Labour in the south of the world: A means of circulating information on the Defence of Workers' Rights (Centro Nuovo Modello di Sviluppa)

• Conduct and structure of the multinationals (Centro Nuovo Modello di Sviluppa)

• Working conditions and trade-union struggles (Centro Nuovo Modello di Sviluppa)

• {···español: La pagina-web sobre la dignidad del trabajo: Un instrumento para la información y la comunicación circular en defensa de los derechos de los trabajadores}

• Comportamiento y estructura de las multinacionales

• Condiciones de trabajo y luchas sindicales

• {···français: Le site pour la dignité du travail: Un instrument pour l'information et la communication circulaire pour les droits des travailleurs} 

• Comportement et structure des multinationales

• Conditions de travail et luttes syndicales

Economic Justice website [USA] (Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund)

Ethical Trading Initiative

Fair Labor Association

Fair Wear: Stopping exploitation of homebased outworkers in the clothing, textile & footwear industries (Australia)

"Forced Labor", in Global Business Responsibility Resource Center (Business for Social Responsibility) Note: click "Human Rights" in column on left side of the website page which appears, then click "Forced Labor".

"Freedom of Association", in Global Business Responsibility Resource Center (Business for Social Responsibility) Note: click "Human Rights" in column on left side of the website page which appears, then click "Freedom of Association".

Full coverage: labour (oneworld.net)

Global Agreements - global agreements with multinational companies and sectors [agreements covering labour rights, environment & other issues; companies include: Statoil, Freudenberg Group, Endesa, Norske Skog] (ICEM - International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions)

• {···español} Convenios mundiales - convenios mundiales con sectores y empresas multinacionales [Statoil, Freudenberg Group, Energía Eléctrica Endesa, Norske Skog] (ICEM - Federación Internacional de Sindicatos de Trabajadores de la Química, Energía, Minas e Industrias Diversas)

• {···français} Accords mondiaux - des accords mondiaux avec des entreprises multinationales et des secteurs [Statoil, Freudenberg, Endesa, Norske Skog] (ICEM - Fédération internationale des syndicats de travailleurs de la chimie, de l'énergie, des mines et des industries diverses)

Global Alliance for Workers and Communities

Global Trade Negotiations: Labor (Center for International Development at Harvard University)

Global Unions 

Hazards and Workers' Health International Newsletter

High tech's hidden labor (SiliconValley.com)

HIV/AIDS: New policy to protect employees - No compulsory testing - Education and counselling programmes [regarding BP's new workplace policy on HIV/AIDS in South Africa]:...Both the policy and the programmes are underpinned by key ethical and moral principles: non-disclosure, confidentiality, tolerance and non-discrimination. (BP)

Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee

Human Rights for Workers (online publication)

International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)

• {···español: Confederación Internacional de Organizaciones Sindicales Libres}

• {···français: Confédération Internationale des Syndicats Libres} 

• Multinational Enterprises (ICFTU)

• {···español: Empresas multinacionales}

• {···français: Entreprises multinationales} 

International Labor Rights Fund

International Program on Chemical Safety (World Health Organization, International Labour Organization and UN Environment Programme) 

International Right to Know Act - Overview: The International Right to Know (IRTK) would require U.S. corporations and foreign multinationals that sell securities in the U.S. to disclose crucial information about their labor, environmental and human rights practices abroad to several U.S. agencies, which would publish this information on the Internet. (Lawyers Committee for Human Rights)

International Right to Know Campaign: We believe U.S. corporations should be required to disclose essential information on their environmental impacts, labor practices, and human rights practices wherever they operate

International Trade Secretariats (ITS) Campaigns on Multinational Enterprises 

International Working Group on Best Business Practices in Cuba (National Policy Association)

Issue Library: Sweatshops (CorpWatch)

Kav La'oved: organisation protecting the rights of disadvantaged workers in Israel

Labor (Global Trade Negotiations Home Page, Center for International Development at Harvard University)

Labor and Global Change Research Network (University of Michigan)

Labor Law - Labor Law is a unique Internet database of detailed labor law reports and supply chain compliance resources [a paid service for subscribers] (Business for Social Responsibility)

Labor Rights and Labor Movements (Global Policy Forum)

Labor Watch (Harvard Trade Union Program and the Mid-West Center for Labor Research)

Labour File (India)

Labour and Society International

LabourStart: Where trade unionists start their day on the net (Labour and Society International)

Linking Trade and Worker Rights (International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers’ Federation [ITGLWF])

• {···español} Ligar el comercio y los derechos sindicales

Lufthansa-unbalanced.org: An independent website about the treatment of Lufthansa's catering and food processing employees in the United States [includes sections on "Sexual Assault & Harassment", "Worker Exploitation", "Health & Safety Violations", "Labor Disputes"] (HERE - Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees International Union and AFL-CIO)

• company website: Lufthansa

Maquila Solidarity Network / Solidaridad de la Maquila

Maquila Worker Campaigns (US/LEAP - U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project)

Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network

"Migrant Labor", in Global Business Responsibility Resource Center (Business for Social Responsibility) Note: click "Human Rights" in column on left side of the website page which appears, then click "Migrant Labor".

Multinationals (International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers’ Federation [ITGLWF])

• {···español} Empresas Multinacionales

National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights: We demand freedom from caste bondage for the 260 million Dalits of Asia

Nike company website:

• Nike - Monitoring: Reports and Results - North Asia Profile: Overview of Nike Contract Factories in the North Asia Region (Nike)

  • China
  • Philippines
  • South Korea
  • Taiwan
   
• "Responsibility: labor" (Nike)

Pilot project: Management training in the garments and textile industry in Bangladesh (Resource Centre for the Social Dimensions of Business Practice)

Political opinion/trade union membership: Novo Nordisk equal opportunities toolbox in Novo Nordisk equal opportunities toolbox (Novo Nordisk)

RATIFICATION WATCH: Ratification of the eight fundamental conventions of the ILO [International Labour Organization] (International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 9 Oct. 2001)

• {···español: Ratificación de las ocho normas fundamentales del trabajo de la OIT}
• {···français: Ratification des huit normes du travail fondamentales de l'OIT}

Solidarity: US/Mexican Worker Alerts, News and Purchasing Power Comparison Site (United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America)

SOMO: Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations

Tea Sourcing Partnership

Trade Unions @ the Johannesburg Summit 2002 (International Confederation of Free Trade Unions)

• {···español} Sindicatos @ Cumbre de Johannesburgo en 2002 (Confederación Internacional de Organizaciones Sindicales Libres)

• {···français} Les syndicats @ Sommet 2002 de Johannesburg (Confédération internationale des syndicats libres)

UNITE! Stop Sweatshops Campaign

US/LEAP (U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project)

WAL-MARTyrs: Sharing the Wal-Mart Experience Worker to Worker

• company website: Wal-Mart

Women-Friendly Workplace Campaign (National Organization for Women [USA])

Women Working Worldwide

Worker Rights and U.S. Trade Policy (US/LEAP - U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project)

Worker Rights Consortium

Workers Rights are Human Rights (War on Want)

Workers Rights Program (Lawyers Committee for Human Rights)

• Fair Labor Association

• Health and safety of workers

• Labor alerts

• UN and corporate social responsibility

• Workers Rights in Cambodia

• Workers Rights in China: An interview with Han Dongfang

Workplace disasters: Latest news reports on industrial disasters (Hazards)

World Confederation of Labour

• {···español: Confederación Mundial del Trabajo}

• {···français: Confédération Mondiale du Travail} 

WRAP (Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production)