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Article

3 Apr 2020

Author:
China Europe Association for Civil Rights

China: Report analyses labour actions by civil society organizations during coronavirus outbreak

“Labor of Social Organizations' Observation Reports in the 2020 Epidemic - 2020 Report on Civil Society Organizations”, March 2020

… the new crown pneumonia epidemic affects not only people in Wuhan and even Hubei, but it also affects the daily life and health of everyone in the country.

…  we try to observe and understand the situation and actions of social organizations in different fields during the epidemic… we started with the labor action under the pandemic. The blockade of urban traffic, the establishment of roadblocks in rural areas, the closure of schools / enterprises / factories, the stagnation of the service industry, and the entire socio-economic life sphere are almost halted. Under such a national public health crisis, the disruption of the socio-economic disruption to the bottom workers is huge-manual workers are the most susceptible to the virus, and they lack sufficient medical security and economic income. The most vulnerable groups in the epidemic. In most cases, the non-medical self-organization of civil society will be at a loss when facing the epidemic, but in the past two months, we can still see a lot of self-organization and NGOs continue to actively participate in this crisis…

… Content outline:

I. Self-organized actions by youth

2. Concerns about NGO actions in the field of labor

3. Autonomous voices and struggles of workers

4. Rethinking civil mutual aid in the pandemic…