UN Special Rapporteur calls for inputs from marginalised workers on peaceful assembly & association (deadline: 30 Jun)
"Discussion: Assembly and association rights for the world’s most marginalized workers," 16 May 2016
The globalization…in the past half-century has contributed to a dramatic rise in the power of large multinational corporations…Unconstrained power…is…a critical threat to the protection of human rights…Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai…plans to explore…this power shift[‘s]…effect on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association of workers – specifically the most marginalized portions of the world’s labor force…
The Special Rapporteur is particularly interested in…:
- The limitation…of assembly and association rights in law and in practice…;
- The exclusion of workers…from legal frameworks…
- The strategy to informalize more work for the purpose of limiting…assembly and association rights;
- The lack of effective global governance of migration, which has led to the exploitation of migrant workers…
What’s your opinion and experience?
The Special Rapporteur…is particularly interested in specific, real-world examples of how the assembly and association rights of workers are being both eroded and bolstered…
How to submit information for the report
…Questionnaires in English…
Completed questionnaires should be e-mailed to [email protected]. We will be accepting submissions until June 30, 2016…