SIDE EVENT TO THE 8th SESSION ON THE UN TREATY ON BUSINESS & HUMAN RIGHTS
SIDE EVENT TO THE 8th SESSION ON THE UN TREATY ON BUSINESS & HUMAN RIGHTS
Trade Union Rights in the Treaty and the Role of Trade Unions for its Effective Implementation
In many countries, trade unionists face repressions and are unlawfully prevented from representing workers' interests: Freedom of association, the right to collective bargaining as well as the right to strike are in many cases denied to workers and trade unionists all over the world. According to the ITUC Global Rights Index 2022, in seventy-four per cent of all countries worldwide workers are excluded from the right to [...]
Can an IMF-Managed Trust for SDRs Deliver Inclusive & Sustainable Recoveries?
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Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), the special reserve currency of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have the potential to become a key mechanism for financing a just transition to climate-resilient economies and supporting the COVID-19 recovery. Following its historic allocation of $650 billion in SDRs in August 2021, the IMF has proposed a Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST) to facilitate the re-channeling of these resources to vulnerable countries.
As a part of the 2022 IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings Civil Society Policy Forum, a panel co-hosted by the [...]
SIDE EVENT TO THE 7th SESSION ON THE UN TREATY
A variety of approaches exists so far that attempt to ensure multinational enterprises’ compliance with human rights in all their business relationships. Workers’ representatives and their trade unions have agreed on more than 300 Global Framework Agreements with transnational corporations to strengthen workers' rights along global supply chains. Also, other corporate approaches such as CSR, social auditing and sector-specific approaches at national level have contributed to improved working conditions in particular in countries where there is only weak employee representation and inadequate [...]