We need to bring justice and equality to homeworkers

We need to bring justice and equality to homeworkers

Awareness of poor labour conditions for workers in global supply chains has grown over the last years. Fatal factory collapses such as the one at Rana Plaza in 2013, shone a much-needed light on the exploitative and hazardous labour conditions that factory workers endure. Still in the dark, however, is another tier of our global workforce – homeworkers.

The Australian National Contact Point is failing

The Australian National Contact Point is failing

Australia’s only government body charged with hearing complaints of human rights abuses by Australian business abroad is failing, a new report finds.
 

Never heard of the Australian National Contact Point? You are not alone. It is one of the Australian government’s best kept secrets that it houses a transnational human rights mechanism charged with hearing cases under the Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.  Tucked away in Treasury and barely resourced, the human rights body turns away most of the communities that come to it seeking help.  In this blog, Kristen Zornada and Dr Shelley Marshall explain how the Australian National Contact Point (ANCP) is failing.