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Choosing Change, a Personal Reflection. A thread🧵🪡 1. The sun has risen, marking a momentous day I have waited for all year. Today, I vote.

Let's get a tried and tested, tireless activist for the people into parliament. #fixthestate #SAElections Zackie Achmat Zackie2024 #equalityforall

Thousands of #vendors in Africa are evicted from trading sites as part of world-bank funded urban renewal programs. As governments and elites chase “world class city status” they are denying need citizens the right to work enshrined in the AU Charter on Human and People’s Rights

Excellent blog on how World Bank funded programs are leading to the eviction of 1,000s of street vendors from workplaces across Africa, driving up already high unemployment. Governments should be negotiating with vendors to find solutions that respects their right to work.

The late Martin Khor played a pivotal role in defining who I am as a scholar, activist & advocate. His support & steadfast belief in me continued throughout my career & his greatest gift is to develop the confidence in us from the global south to claim our place in the world.1/2

Sin perspectivas laborales, muchxs #trabajadorxs crean su propio empleo, pero los Gobiernos insisten en criminalizarlxs. Marlese von Broembsen reflexiona sobre los riesgos de esta criminalización y cómo los Gobiernos y lxs trabajadorxs pueden encontrar soluciones: bit.ly/4bMdFTS

Newly elected Chairperson of Lagos Chapter of FIWON (in red, on the left) takes a lead in the anti hunger protests in Lagos today...

Important message from the general secretary of the international domestic workers’ federation :

My blog discusses structural unemployment and the dream of #worldclass cities: urban renewal programmes that result in mass forced removals of #streetvendors from their workplaces and yet the right to work is enshrined in international law Cities Alliance

TOP Brand sauce manufacturing workers in Sandton down tools for higher wages groundup.org.za/article/top-br… by Kimberly Mutandiro

⛔️In 2024, 79% of countries severely restricted/ abolished the #RightToCollectiveBargaining. Govts refused to engage with trade unions, & employers exploited weak laws to avoid negotiations, undermining workers' rights. #RightsIndex24 #DRC ITUC-Africa // CSI-Afrique 👉globalrightsindex.org

The ILAWnetwork bringing together worker-side labour lawyers from around the world has been very busy this year. Here are some the network's amazing recent publications: 1. Latest issue of the ILAW Journal: Forging a Feminist Labour Law LINK: ilawnetwork.com/wp-content/upl…

What a fantastic 4 days. I learnt new theoretical lenses but mostly loved the time with critical thinkers and passionate people: activist scholars and practitioners committed to the many workers excluded from labour law. Thanks Vincenzo Pietrogiovanni Claire Mumme - 🇵🇸- not in my name Manoj Dias-Abey Fotis Vergis

Solidarity over charity.

Will Immigrant Workers in Britain Become Europe’s First Amazon Union? 3,000 Amazon workers at a warehouse in Coventry, England are poised to become the first recognized Amazon union in all of Europe. labornotes.org/2024/07/will-i… Luis Feliz Leon

A joy to moderate a panel discussion on Convention 189 on decent work for domestic workers with the General Secretaries Nellie Kahua & Ruth Sakala of #domesticworker unions in Nambia and Zambia & Pamhidzai Bamu at the African Labour Law Society conference. IDWF WIEGO ILAWnetwork

In some African cities, the spirit of colonialism lives on in how street vendors are treated by govts. Marlese von Broembsen writes, "Branded as ‘development’ & in pursuit of attaining status as a ‘world-class city,’ their policies perpetuate colonial legacies." 👉bit.ly/3Khzkar

If governments cannot create jobs, yet criminalize citizens who create their own jobs, they risk social instability. Yet governments routinely refuse to engage with inform wiego.org/blog/hungry-tr…

🗣️ Our voices matter! Worker organizations and trade unions from key garment-producing countries are speaking up against the EU Commission's Omnibus proposal that threatens the #CSDDD! 📢 Millions of workers depend on it, including #Homeworkers! ✍️ Read our Open Letter: