| From | GLJ-ILRF <[email protected]> |
| Subject | GLJ-ILRF Summer Newsletter |
| Date | August 12, 2021 3:08 PM |
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Today=E2=80=99s newsletter highlights our efforts to expand labor rights an=
d new forms of bargaining on global supply chains, capital markets, and int=
ernational labor migration corridors including:=20
Indian Union Leader Thivya Rakini Inspires APALA Convention with Lessons of=
Organizing on Global Supply Chains from the South and Calls for Global Sol=
idarity with Garment Workers in Honor of Jeyasre Kathiravel
GLJ-ILRF Mourns the Passing of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Honors =
His Legacy Promoting International Labor Solidarity
GLJ-ILRF and IUF Issue Joint Report Highlighting ILO Convention 11 and One =
Hundred Years of Advancing Freedom of Association for Farmworkers=20
GLJ-ILRF Organizer Yoel Featured in Labor Notes on Labor's High Hopes as Ch=
ilean's Rewrite the Anti-Labor Constitution
GLJ-ILRF Executive Director Testifies before the House Ways and Means Trade=
Subcommittee on Forded Labor in Global Supply Chains
GLJ-ILRF and Seafood Working Group Highlight TIP Report's Failure to Downgr=
ade Taiwan Despite Forced Labor in the Fishing Sector
The Seafood Working Group=E2=80=99s Advocacy Leads to TIP Report Downgrade =
for Thailand Based on Forced Labor of Migrant Workers=20
GLJ-ILRF and NYU School of Law U.S.-Asia Law Institute Release Joint Report=
on Gender-Based Violence and Harassment in China =20
GLJ-IRLF Sends Letter in Support of SITRATALSA Trade Union Leader Santos Ce=
lestina Carranza Ruiz
The Seafood Working Group Calls on the U.S. State Department to Urge Thaila=
nd to Withdraw Proposed Law that Threatens Organizations Combatting Human T=
rafficking=20
=20
Indian Union Leader Thivya Rakini Inspires APALA Convention with Lessons of=
Organizing on Global Supply Chains from the South and Calls for Global Sol=
idarity with Garment Workers in Honor of Jeyasre Kathiravel
Indian Union Leader Thivya Rakini, President of the Tamil Nadu Textile and =
Common Labour Union (TTCU) addressed the Asian Pacific American Labor Allia=
nce=E2=80=99s 16th Biennial Convention. Thivya shared the legacy of Jeyasre=
Kathiravel, a young Dalit woman and union member who was organizing for be=
tter conditions at her workplace and was killed by her supervisor inspiring=
the Justice for Jeyasre campaign to honor her legacy and demand serious lo=
ng term changes including an end to gender-based violence and harassment an=
d freedom of association for garment workers in Tamil Nadu and beyond. Thiv=
ya inspired APALA Convention attendees with the energy and spirit of TTCU=
=E2=80=99s women members as they organize to transform conditions on the gl=
obal supply chains of major fashion brands. She also shared their transfor=
mative vision of dignified work and life for those who sew the clothes that=
many of the convention members wear every day.=20
You can read more here.=20
=20
GLJ-ILRF Mourns the Passing of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Honors =
His Legacy Promoting International Labor Solidarity
Global Labor Justice-International Labor Rights Forum (GLJ-IRLF), our staff=
, and our allied unions and community organizations around the globe mourn =
the loss of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. As a third-generation miner a=
nd son of immigrant parents, President Trumka often publicly called on that=
experience as he defended important positions for working people and union=
s in the U.S. and around the world. We send our deepest condolences to his =
family and friends as we honor President Trumka=E2=80=99s powerful legacy=
=E2=80=94he fought hard battles and left the world a better place for union=
s and working people. We also send our solidarity to the leaders at the AFL=
-CIO who carry forward the work at this critical time.
You can read our full statement here.=20
=20
GLJ-ILRF and IUF Issue Joint Report Highlighting ILO Convention 11 and One =
Hundred Years of Advancing Freedom of Association for Farmworkers =20
GLJ-ILRF and IUF launched a new report marking the 100th anniversary of ILO=
Convention 11 and its importance in addressing the pervasive and ongoing e=
xclusion of agricultural workers from exercising their fundamental right to=
freedom of association and collective bargaining.=20
You can read the forward by IUF General Secretary Sue Longley and GLJ-ILRF =
Executive Director and the full report here.
=20
GLJ-ILRF Organizer Yoel Featured in Labor Notes on Labor's High Hopes as Ch=
ilean's Rewrite the Anti-Labor Constitution
GLJ-ILRF organizer Yoel Bitran published a piece in Labor Notes outlining t=
he potential power of a new constitution for Chilean workers that could ope=
n the door for a radical transformation of the labor movement and increased=
bargaining power for Chile=E2=80=99s working class.=20
You can read the full piece here.=20
=20
GLJ-ILRF Executive Director Testifies before the House Ways and Means Trade=
Subcommittee on Forded Labor in Global Supply Chains
On Wednesday, July 21st, 2021 GLJ-ILRF=E2=80=99s Executive Director, JJ Ros=
enbaum testified at the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means Trade Subcom=
mittee hearing to discuss innovative approaches to combat forced labor in g=
lobal supply chains and how the U.S. government can strengthen enforcement =
and protect workers. Her testimony highlighted GLJ-ILRF=E2=80=99s work on =
forced labor on the supply chains of U.S. Corporations in the seafood secto=
r, cotton in Central Asia and the Uyghur Region, and Palm Oil Products. =20
You can read her statement to the subcommittee here and her written submiss=
ion here.
=20
The Seafood Working Group=E2=80=99s GLJ-ILRF's Advocacy Wins TIP Report Dow=
ngrade for Thailand Based on Forced Labor of Migrant Workers in the Seafood=
and Other Sectors
On July 8th, GLJ-ILRF and the Seafood Working Group issued a statement call=
ing out the U.S. State Department=E2=80=99s failure to downgrade Taiwan in =
its 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) ranking based on well documen=
ted forced labor in the fishing sector. In April, GLJ-ILRF and Greenpeace, =
as part of the Seafood Working Group, submitted comments to the U.S. Depart=
ment of State recommending that Taiwan be downgraded to Tier 2. The working=
group noted that Taiwan had not met the minimum standards set forth in the=
U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.=20
Even though Taiwan=E2=80=99s distant water fishing industry has been implic=
ated in numerous investigations and reports for labor trafficking and the g=
overnment has failed to sufficiently address this problem, the 2021 Traffi=
cking in Persons (TIP) Report issued on July 1, 2021, maintained Taiwan at =
Tier 1 (the highest ranking for anti-trafficking efforts) for the twelfth c=
onsecutive year. =20
You can read the full statement here and watch a panel discussion here.
=20
The Seafood Working Group=E2=80=99s Advocacy Leads to TIP Report Downgrade =
for Thailand Based on Forced Labor of Migrant Workers=20
In April, GLJ-ILRF as part of the Seafood Working Group -- a global coaliti=
on of 30 labor, human rights, and environmental organizations -- submitted =
comments to the U.S. Department of State recommending that Thailand be down=
graded to Tier 2 Watch List. The working group noted that Thailand had not =
met the minimum standards set forth in the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protect=
ion Act of 2000.=20
On July 1st, the U.S. Department of State released its 2021 Trafficking in =
Persons (TIP) Report downgrading Thailand to Tier 2 Watch List. The report =
found the Thai government did not demonstrate overall increasing efforts to=
address trafficking compared to the previous year nor has it effectively a=
ddressed the forced labor of migrant workers. Numerous reports and investig=
ations have implicated Thailand in labor abuses and trafficking of migrant =
workers, particularly in the fishing, seafood and garment sectors. Thailand=
was listed as Tier 2 for the three years prior and this decision to downgr=
ade gives important recognition that the government has failed to sufficien=
tly address this problem.
You can read the full statement here.
=20
GLJ-ILRF and NYU School of Law U.S.-Asia Law Institute Release Joint Report=
on Gender-Based Violence and Harassment in China=20
On the second anniversary of ILO Convention C190, GLJ-ILRF and NYU=E2=80=99=
s U.S.-Asia Law Institute published a report examining the Chinese Governme=
nt=E2=80=99s actions to end gender-based violence and harassment at work. T=
he report analyzes how the Chinese government can concretely align its dome=
stic law and practice with ILO Convention C190 and what Chinese employers, =
Chinese workers=E2=80=99 organizations and global brands can do to address =
gender-based violence and harassment in the Chinese workplace.
The full report is available here.
=20
GLJ-IRLF Sends Letter in Support of SITRATALSA Trade Union Leader Santos Ce=
lestina Carranza Ruiz
GLJ-ILRF sent a letter asking the Ministry of Labor of Peru to intervene in=
the unjust firing and persecution of Peruvian trade union leader Santos Ce=
lestina Carranza Ruiz by the agribusiness company Tal SA. The company has a=
ccused workers of criminal and labor rights offenses in order to destroy th=
e union and intimidate workers from speaking out and defending workers=E2=
=80=99 rights. GLJ-ILRF is demanding the reinstatement of SITRATALSA Trade =
Union Leader Santos Celestina Carranza Rui and asking TalSa to respect the =
rights of workers to organize and for the anti-union culture that exists at=
TalSA to stop.=20
You can read the letter here.=20
=20
The Seafood Working Group Calls on the U.S. State Department to Urge Thaila=
nd to Withdraw Proposed Law that Threatens Organizations Combatting Human T=
rafficking=20
In June, GLJ-ILRF together with dozens of worker rights and human rights or=
ganizations participating in the Seafood Working Group released a letter ex=
pressing deep concern regarding Thailand=E2=80=99s draft Act on the Operati=
on of Not-for-Profit Organizations. If enacted, this Council of State draft=
ed law would pose serious threats to the functioning of Thai civil society =
as well as have a deeply damaging impact on both donors and international n=
on-governmental organizations working to address human trafficking and impr=
ove labor rights in Thailand. For this reason, the signatories called on th=
e U.S. State Department, and in particular the Office to Monitor and Combat=
Trafficking in Persons, to strongly advocate for the Thai government to wi=
thdraw this bill.
You can read the letter here.=20
=20
GLJ-ILRF in the News=20
Human Rights Groups Decry Taiwan=E2=80=99s Tier 1 Human Trafficking Rating =
by U.S.
UNDERCURRENT NEWS | JUL 8, 2021
=20
Thailand Disappointed with Downgrade in Latest US Human Trafficking Report
SEAFOOD SOURCE | JUL 7, 2021
=20
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Monitors Imports to Curb Products Made b=
y Forced Labor
THE WORLD/PRI | APR 30, 2021
=20
Inadequacy of U.S. Screening System for IUU Risks Laid Bare in Trade Study
SEAFOOD SOURCE | APR 7, 2021
=20
As Boohoo Comes Under US Customs' Microscope, What Companies Need to Know A=
bout Their Supply Chains
THE FASHION LAW | MAR 3, 2021
=20
In Solidarity,=20
GLJ-ILRF=20
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<th class=3D"columns small-12 large-12 first last" style=3D"w=
ord-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: top; color: #3c4144; font-family: Tah=
oma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; text-align: left; font=
-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0 auto; Margin: 0 auto; padding-top:=
24px; padding-bottom: 24px; word-break: break-word; width: 564px; padding-=
left: 24px; padding-right: 24px; border-collapse: collapse;"><p style=3D"co=
lor: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padd=
ing: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-heigh=
t: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weig=
ht: 400;">Today=E2=80=99s</span><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;"> newslett=
er highlights</span><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;"> our efforts to expan=
d labor rights and new forms of bargaining on global supply chains, capital=
markets, and international labor migration corridors including: </spa=
n></p>=20
<ul>=20
<li style=3D"font-weight: 400;" aria-level=3D"1"><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
vb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfonEDBX6FIsRTmfEL79_rn4=3D" =
style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height=
: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Indian Union Leader Thivya Rakini=
Inspires APALA Convention with Lessons of Organizing on Global Supply Chai=
ns from the South and Calls for Global Solidarity with Garment Workers in H=
onor of Jeyasre Kathiravel</span></a></li>=20
<li style=3D"font-weight: 400;" aria-level=3D"1"><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
vb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfvOO-IdxhFxgxQPh6jV5VCU=3D" =
style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height=
: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">GLJ-ILRF Mourns the Passing of AF=
L-CIO President Richard Trumka and Honors His Legacy Promoting Internationa=
l Labor Solidarity</span></a></li>=20
<li style=3D"font-weight: 400;" aria-level=3D"1"><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
vb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfuGEjybkkUfqimhhG5B4c0o=3D" =
style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height=
: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">GLJ-ILRF and IUF Issue Joint Repo=
rt Highlighting ILO Convention 11 and One Hundred Years of Advancing Freedo=
m of Association for Farmworkers </span></a></li>=20
<li style=3D"font-weight: 400;" aria-level=3D"1"><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
vb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfjVm6YWSo_V8cN181FeqVk4=3D" =
style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height=
: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">GLJ-ILRF Organizer Yoel Featured =
in Labor Notes on Labor's High Hopes as Chilean's Rewrite the Anti-Labor Co=
nstitution</span></a></li>=20
<li style=3D"font-weight: 400;" aria-level=3D"1"><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
vb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfhmZCSop4UZLDzJvC5u3acE=3D" =
style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height=
: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">GLJ-ILRF Executive Director Testi=
fies before the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee on Forded Labor in =
Global Supply Chains</span></a></li>=20
<li style=3D"font-weight: 400;" aria-level=3D"1"><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
vb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfipAOgGBwTeLZgXFvXE6QCY=3D" =
style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height=
: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">GLJ-ILRF and Seafood Working Grou=
p Highlight TIP Report's Failure to Downgrade Taiwan Despite Forced Labor i=
n the Fishing Sector</span></a></li>=20
<li style=3D"font-weight: 400;" aria-level=3D"1"><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
vb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfiROK0Bdkop8LRtmSj_COPA=3D" =
style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height=
: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">The Seafood Working Group=E2=80=
=99s Advocacy Leads to TIP Report Downgrade for Thailand Based on Forced La=
bor of Migrant Workers </span></a></li>=20
<li style=3D"font-weight: 400;" aria-level=3D"1"><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
vb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfgze93WOxRxQ1oQbnE-iJc4=3D" =
style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height=
: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">GLJ-ILRF and NYU School of Law U.=
S.-Asia Law Institute Release Joint Report on Gender-Based Violence and Har=
assment in China </span></a><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;"> </span>=
</li>=20
<li style=3D"font-weight: 400;" aria-level=3D"1"><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
vb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfkgnLAVtH30Ud8pusj-YgaM=3D" =
style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height=
: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">GLJ-IRLF Sends Letter in Support =
of SITRATALSA Trade Union Leader Santos Celestina Carranza Ruiz</span></a><=
/li>=20
<li style=3D"font-weight: 400;" aria-level=3D"1"><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
vb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfgtliDL5aTGiTmK_9jMUbxI=3D" =
style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height=
: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">The Seafood Working Group Calls o=
n the U.S. State Department to Urge Thailand to Withdraw Proposed Law that =
Threatens Organizations Combatting Human Trafficking </span></a></li>=
=20
</ul> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva=
,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align=
: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bott=
om: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Genev=
a,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-alig=
n: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bot=
tom: 10px;"><a href=3D"[link removed]
k/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUflaWfN=
pRJOue3Ygi18bQnX0=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-=
family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-al=
ign: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>Indian Union Leader Thivya Rakini Ins=
pires APALA Convention with Lessons of Organizing on Global Supply Chains f=
rom the South and Calls for Global Solidarity with Garment Workers in Honor=
of Jeyasre Kathiravel</strong></a></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-fa=
mily: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Ma=
rgin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom=
: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Indian Unio=
n Leader Thivya Rakini, President of the Tamil Nadu Textile and Common Labo=
ur Union (TTCU) addressed the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance=E2=80=
=99s 16th Biennial Convention. Thivya shared the legacy of Jeyasre Kathirav=
el, a young Dalit woman and union member who was organizing for better cond=
itions at her workplace and was killed by her supervisor inspiring the Just=
ice for Jeyasre campaign to honor her legacy and demand serious long term c=
hanges including an end to gender-based violence and harassment and freedom=
of association for garment workers in Tamil Nadu and beyond. Thivya inspir=
ed APALA Convention attendees with the energy and spirit of TTCU=E2=80=99s =
women members as they organize to transform conditions on the global supply=
chains of major fashion brands. She also shared their transformative=
vision of dignified work and life for those who sew the clothes that many =
of the convention members wear every day. </span></p> <p style=3D"colo=
r: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; paddin=
g: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height:=
1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>You can read more =
</strong><a href=3D"[link removed]
JNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfkpKMzUNN=
kA95Hc4ztUC1w8=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-fam=
ily: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align=
: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>. </strong=
></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; fo=
nt-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-si=
ze: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;">&nbs=
p;</p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; f=
ont-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-s=
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href=3D"[link removed]
cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfnjK-v0DeY7Ld0y_9Ipp6=
uk=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,=
Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line=
-height: 1.5;"><strong>GLJ-ILRF Mourns the Passing of AFL-CIO President Ric=
hard Trumka and Honors His Legacy Promoting International Labor Solidarity<=
/strong></a></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,san=
s-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: le=
ft; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: =
10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Global Labor Justice-International=
Labor Rights Forum (GLJ-IRLF), our staff, and our allied unions and commun=
ity organizations around the globe mourn the loss of AFL-CIO President Rich=
ard Trumka. As a third-generation miner and son of immigrant parents, Presi=
dent Trumka often publicly called on that experience as he defended importa=
nt positions for working people and unions in the U.S. and around the world=
. We send our deepest condolences to his family and friends as we honor Pre=
sident Trumka=E2=80=99s powerful legacy=E2=80=94he fought hard battles and =
left the world a better place for unions and working people. We also send o=
ur solidarity to the leaders at the AFL-CIO who carry forward the work at t=
his critical time.</span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Taho=
ma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; t=
ext-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Ma=
rgin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>You can read our full statement <a href=3D"http=
s://api.neonemails.com/emails/tracking/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1=
GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfk45w7pXdRj7pEMHVh0u8nM=3D" style=
=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-=
serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5=
;">here</a>. </strong></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Ta=
homa,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0;=
text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; =
Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: T=
ahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0=
; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px;=
Margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href=3D"[link removed]
g/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvn=
Fj8hUfv-y48d232uP7ixhmyE1OkA=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: =
none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding:=
0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>GLJ-ILRF and IUF Issue Joi=
nt Report Highlighting ILO Convention 11 and One Hundred Years of Advancing=
Freedom of Association for Farmworkers </strong></a><a href=3D"[link removed]
.neonemails.com/emails/tracking/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JA=
gawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfr6gf-yPbAX249LbKpNOVVE=3D" style=3D"col=
or: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; =
font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><str=
ong> </strong></a></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma=
,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; tex=
t-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Marg=
in-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">GLJ-ILRF and IUF launch=
ed a new report marking the 100th anniversary of ILO Convention 11 and its =
importance in addressing the pervasive and ongoing exclusion of agricultura=
l workers from exercising their fundamental right to freedom of association=
and collective bargaining. </span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; fo=
nt-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: =
0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-b=
ottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>You can read the forward by IUF =
General Secretary Sue Longley and GLJ-ILRF Executive Director and the full =
report </strong><a href=3D"[link removed]
-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfq=
NQAYpu0sA3Bow1I20OGrQ=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; f=
ont-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; tex=
t-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>.</stron=
g></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; f=
ont-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-s=
ize: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;">&nb=
sp;</p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; =
font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-=
size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><a=
href=3D"[link removed]
3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfnNO3qdOkzfawrrepMBA=
aDY=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma=
,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; lin=
e-height: 1.5;"><strong>GLJ-ILRF Organizer Yoel Featured in Labor Notes on =
Labor's High Hopes as Chilean's Rewrite the Anti-Labor Constitution</strong=
></a></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif=
; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; fon=
t-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;">=
<span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">GLJ-ILRF organizer Yoel Bitran published =
a piece in Labor Notes outlining the potential power of a new constitution =
for Chilean workers that could open the door for a radical transformation o=
f the labor movement and increased bargaining power for Chile=E2=80=99s wor=
king class. </span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahom=
a,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; te=
xt-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Mar=
gin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>You can read the full piece </strong><a href=3D"=
[link removed]
b1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfl2tZo327d044ep9ODkkpi0=3D" s=
tyle=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,s=
ans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height:=
1.5;"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>. </strong></p> <p style=3D"color: =
#3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: =
0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.=
5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color:=
#3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding:=
0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1=
.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href=3D"[link removed]
mails.com/emails/tracking/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLl=
s1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfoysUlt8FrtfKeKzgfqgzAo=3D" style=3D"color: #0=
074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-w=
eight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>GL=
J-ILRF Executive Director Testifies before the House Ways and Means Trade S=
ubcommittee on Forded Labor in Global Supply Chains</strong></a></p> <p sty=
le=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 4=
00; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; li=
ne-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"f=
ont-weight: 400;">On Wednesday, July 21st, 2021 GLJ-ILRF=E2=80=99s Executiv=
e Director, JJ Rosenbaum testified at the U.S. House Committee on Ways and =
Means Trade Subcommittee hearing to discuss innovative approaches to combat=
forced labor in global supply chains and how the U.S. government can stren=
gthen enforcement and protect workers. Her testimony highlighted GLJ-=
ILRF=E2=80=99s work on forced labor on the supply chains of U.S. Corporatio=
ns in the seafood sector, cotton in Central Asia and the Uyghur Region, and=
Palm Oil Products. </span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font=
-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0;=
Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bot=
tom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>You can read her statement to the =
subcommittee </strong><a href=3D"[link removed]
/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnF=
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one; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: =
0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>here</strong></a><strong> a=
nd her written submission </strong><a href=3D"[link removed]
ails/tracking/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30=
bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfuB2hBdad-FjqAuwd3X7kls=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-=
decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inher=
it; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>here</strong><=
/a><strong>.</strong></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,G=
eneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-=
align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin=
-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,=
Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text=
-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margi=
n-bottom: 10px;"><a href=3D"[link removed]
k-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUf=
mGFS3MvftgJsp5q7zBL7d8=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; =
font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; te=
xt-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>The Seafood Working Group=E2=80=
=99s GLJ-ILRF's Advocacy Wins TIP Report Downgrade for Thailand Based on Fo=
rced Labor of Migrant Workers in the Seafood and Other Sectors</strong></a>=
</p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; fon=
t-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-siz=
e: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span=
style=3D"font-weight: 400;">On July 8th, GLJ-ILRF and the Seafood Working =
Group issued a statement calling out the U.S. State Department=E2=80=99s fa=
ilure to downgrade Taiwan in its 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP)&n=
bsp; ranking based on well documented forced labor in the fishing sector. I=
n April, GLJ-ILRF and Greenpeace, as part of the Seafood Working Group, sub=
mitted comments to the U.S. Department of State recommending that Taiwan be=
downgraded to Tier 2. The working group noted that Taiwan had not met the =
minimum standards set forth in the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act =
of 2000. </span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,G=
eneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-=
align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin=
-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Even though Taiwan=E2=80=
=99s distant water fishing industry has been implicated in numerous investi=
gations and reports for labor trafficking and the government has failed to =
sufficiently address this problem, the 2021 Trafficking in Persons (T=
IP) Report issued on July 1, 2021, maintained Taiwan at Tier 1 (the highest=
ranking for anti-trafficking efforts) for the twelfth consecutive year.&nb=
sp; </span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva=
,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align=
: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bott=
om: 10px;"><strong>You can read the full statement </strong><a href=3D"http=
s://api.neonemails.com/emails/tracking/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1=
GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfgB-RWD0oveD44IowGA8IG8=3D" style=
=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-=
serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5=
;"><strong>here</strong></a><strong> and watch a panel discussion </strong>=
<a href=3D"[link removed]
gI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfq4acBNcZU1Vo1LMON=
JWkhM=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Taho=
ma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; l=
ine-height: 1.5;"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p> <p style=
=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400=
; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line=
-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p styl=
e=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 40=
0; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; lin=
e-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href=3D"https:=
//api.neonemails.com/emails/tracking/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1Gg=
hS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfpEw7kInW33S3HWqVdY1sRk=3D" style=
=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-=
serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5=
;"><strong>The Seafood Working Group=E2=80=99s Advocacy Leads to TIP Report=
Downgrade for Thailand Based on Forced Labor of Migrant Workers </str=
ong></a></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-se=
rif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; =
font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px=
;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">In April, GLJ-ILRF as part of the Seaf=
ood Working Group -- a global coalition of 30 labor, human rights, and envi=
ronmental organizations -- submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Sta=
te recommending that Thailand be downgraded to Tier 2 Watch List. The worki=
ng group noted that Thailand had not met the minimum standards set forth in=
the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. </span></p> <p s=
tyle=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight:=
400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; =
line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D=
"font-weight: 400;">On July 1st, the U.S. Department of State released its =
2021 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report downgrading Thailand to Tier 2 Wat=
ch List. The report found the Thai government did not demonstrate overall i=
ncreasing efforts to address trafficking compared to the previous year nor =
has it effectively addressed the forced labor of migrant workers. Numerous =
reports and investigations have implicated Thailand in labor abuses and tra=
fficking of migrant workers, particularly in the fishing, seafood and garme=
nt sectors. Thailand was listed as Tier 2 for the three years prior and thi=
s decision to downgrade gives important recognition that the government has=
failed to sufficiently address this problem.</span></p> <p style=3D"color:=
#3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding:=
0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1=
.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong> You can read t=
he full statement </strong><a href=3D"[link removed]
cking/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pV=
MQvnFj8hUfijjsw-gGfTxO0IdlStXoYo=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decorati=
on: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padd=
ing: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>here</strong></a><stro=
ng>.</strong></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sa=
ns-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: l=
eft; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom:=
10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,s=
ans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: =
left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom=
: 10px;"><a href=3D"[link removed]
JNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfv4NtjGGy=
OfG9Glj-4d5O3I=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-fam=
ily: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align=
: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>GLJ-ILRF and NYU School of Law U.S.-Asia=
Law Institute Release Joint Report on Gender-Based Violence and Harassment=
in China </strong></a></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: T=
ahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0=
; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px;=
Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">On the second anni=
versary of ILO Convention C190, GLJ-ILRF and NYU=E2=80=99s U.S.-Asia Law In=
stitute published a report examining the Chinese Government=E2=80=99s actio=
ns to end gender-based violence and harassment at work. The report analyzes=
how the Chinese government can concretely align its domestic law and pract=
ice with ILO Convention C190 and what Chinese employers, Chinese workers=E2=
=80=99 organizations and global brands can do to address gender-based viole=
nce and harassment in the Chinese workplace.</span></p> <p style=3D"color: =
#3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: =
0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.=
5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>The full report is av=
ailable </strong><a href=3D"[link removed]
k-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUf=
o8rcUF0x_vAvLxmzdJ19So=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; =
font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; te=
xt-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>here.</strong></a></p> <p style=
=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400=
; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line=
-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p styl=
e=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 40=
0; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; lin=
e-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href=3D"https:=
//api.neonemails.com/emails/tracking/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1Gg=
hS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfgPZ9p3Gdl5C2Yn4OtidZIE=3D" style=
=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-=
serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5=
;"><strong>GLJ-IRLF Sends Letter in Support of SITRATALSA Trade Union Leade=
r Santos Celestina Carranza Ruiz</strong></a></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c414=
4; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; mar=
gin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; mar=
gin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">G=
LJ-ILRF sent a letter asking the Ministry of Labor of Peru to intervene in =
the unjust firing and persecution of Peruvian trade union leader Santos Cel=
estina Carranza Ruiz by the agribusiness company Tal SA. The company has ac=
cused workers of criminal and labor rights offenses in order to destroy the=
union and intimidate workers from speaking out and defending workers=E2=80=
=99 rights. GLJ-ILRF is demanding the reinstatement of SITRATALSA Trade Uni=
on Leader Santos Celestina Carranza Rui and asking TalSa to respect the rig=
hts of workers to organize and for the anti-union culture that exists at Ta=
lSA to stop. </span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Taho=
ma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; t=
ext-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Ma=
rgin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>You can read the letter </strong><a href=3D"htt=
ps://api.neonemails.com/emails/tracking/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u=
1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfpIghLMfhUrEVXCDthSx02Q=3D" styl=
e=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans=
-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.=
5;"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>.</strong><span style=3D"font-weight: =
400;"> </span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,s=
ans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: =
left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom=
: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align:=
left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-botto=
m: 10px;"><a href=3D"[link removed]
EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfgdq37qJ=
7QP-hGtEtI2Hd88=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-fa=
mily: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-alig=
n: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>The Seafood Working Group Calls on the =
U.S. State Department to Urge Thailand to Withdraw Proposed Law that Threat=
ens Organizations Combatting Human Trafficking </strong></a></p> <p st=
yle=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: =
400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; l=
ine-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"=
font-weight: 400;">In June, GLJ-ILRF together with dozens of worker rights =
and human rights organizations participating in the Seafood Working Group r=
eleased a letter expressing deep concern regarding Thailand=E2=80=99s draft=
Act on the Operation of Not-for-Profit Organizations. If enacted, this Cou=
ncil of State drafted law would pose serious threats to the functioning of =
Thai civil society as well as have a deeply damaging impact on both donors =
and international non-governmental organizations working to address human t=
rafficking and improve labor rights in Thailand. For this reason, the signa=
tories called on the U.S. State Department, and in particular the Office to=
Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, to strongly advocate for the Th=
ai government to withdraw this bill.</span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144;=
font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margi=
n: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margi=
n-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>You can read the letter </str=
ong><a href=3D"[link removed]
vz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfpHhF9nTAgwsGj=
JqFEwX4Gk=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: =
Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: lef=
t; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>. </strong></p> <p s=
tyle=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight:=
400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; =
line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p =
style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight=
: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt;=
line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong><span=
style=3D"text-decoration: underline;">GLJ-ILRF in the News</span> </s=
trong></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-seri=
f; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; fo=
nt-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"=
><a href=3D"[link removed]
NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfqbds-JSSpcLra_U2=
9tsAYU=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tah=
oma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; =
line-height: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Human Rights Groups De=
cry Taiwan=E2=80=99s Tier 1 Human Trafficking Rating by U.S.</span></a></p>=
<p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-we=
ight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 1=
2pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span sty=
le=3D"font-weight: 400;">UNDERCURRENT NEWS | JUL 8, 2021</span></p> <=
p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weig=
ht: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12p=
t; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> =
<p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-wei=
ght: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12=
pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
vb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfl3WDAiD_h6k9fRDyt3FFpk=3D" =
style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height=
: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Thailand Disappointed with Downgr=
ade in Latest US Human Trafficking Report</span></a></p> <p style=3D"color:=
#3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding:=
0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1=
.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: =
400;">SEAFOOD SOURCE | JUL 7, 2021</span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; f=
ont-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin:=
0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-=
bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; =
font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin=
: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin=
-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href=3D"[link removed]
emails/tracking/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S=
30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfqDdTx6wWCCuEZEYON8IRG8=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; tex=
t-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inh=
erit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-=
weight: 400;">U.S. Customs and Border Protection Monitors Imports to Curb P=
roducts Made by Forced Labor</span></a></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; fon=
t-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0=
; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bo=
ttom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">THE WOR=
LD/PRI | APR 30, 2021</span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: T=
ahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0=
; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px;=
Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: =
Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: =
0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px=
; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href=3D"[link removed]
ng/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQv=
nFj8hUftqVxVya_UYSqWgt08sUKv0=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration:=
none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding=
: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;"=
>Inadequacy of U.S. Screening System for IUU Risks Laid Bare in Trade Study=
</span></a></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans=
-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: lef=
t; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 1=
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Today’s newsletter highlights our efforts to expand labor rights and new forms of bargaining on global supply chains, capital markets, and international labor migration corridors including:
Indian Union Leader Thivya Rakini Inspires APALA Convention with Lessons of Organizing on Global Supply Chains from the South and Calls for Global Solidarity with Garment Workers in Honor of Jeyasre Kathiravel
GLJ-ILRF Mourns the Passing of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Honors His Legacy Promoting International Labor Solidarity
GLJ-ILRF and IUF Issue Joint Report Highlighting ILO Convention 11 and One Hundred Years of Advancing Freedom of Association for Farmworkers
GLJ-ILRF Organizer Yoel Featured in Labor Notes on Labor's High Hopes as Chilean's Rewrite the Anti-Labor Constitution
GLJ-ILRF Executive Director Testifies before the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee on Forded Labor in Global Supply Chains
GLJ-ILRF and Seafood Working Group Highlight TIP Report's Failure to Downgrade Taiwan Despite Forced Labor in the Fishing Sector
The Seafood Working Group’s Advocacy Leads to TIP Report Downgrade for Thailand Based on Forced Labor of Migrant Workers
GLJ-ILRF and NYU School of Law U.S.-Asia Law Institute Release Joint Report on Gender-Based Violence and Harassment in China
GLJ-IRLF Sends Letter in Support of SITRATALSA Trade Union Leader Santos Celestina Carranza Ruiz
The Seafood Working Group Calls on the U.S. State Department to Urge Thailand to Withdraw Proposed Law that Threatens Organizations Combatting Human Trafficking
Indian Union Leader Thivya Rakini Inspires APALA Convention with Lessons of Organizing on Global Supply Chains from the South and Calls for Global Solidarity with Garment Workers in Honor of Jeyasre Kathiravel
Indian Union Leader Thivya Rakini, President of the Tamil Nadu Textile and Common Labour Union (TTCU) addressed the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance’s 16th Biennial Convention. Thivya shared the legacy of Jeyasre Kathiravel, a young Dalit woman and union member who was organizing for better conditions at her workplace and was killed by her supervisor inspiring the Justice for Jeyasre campaign to honor her legacy and demand serious long term changes including an end to gender-based violence and harassment and freedom of association for garment workers in Tamil Nadu and beyond. Thivya inspired APALA Convention attendees with the energy and spirit of TTCU’s women members as they organize to transform conditions on the global supply chains of major fashion brands. She also shared their transformative vision of dignified work and life for those who sew the clothes that many of the convention members wear every day.
You can read more here.
GLJ-ILRF Mourns the Passing of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Honors His Legacy Promoting International Labor Solidarity
Global Labor Justice-International Labor Rights Forum (GLJ-IRLF), our staff, and our allied unions and community organizations around the globe mourn the loss of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. As a third-generation miner and son of immigrant parents, President Trumka often publicly called on that experience as he defended important positions for working people and unions in the U.S. and around the world. We send our deepest condolences to his family and friends as we honor President Trumka’s powerful legacy—he fought hard battles and left the world a better place for unions and working people. We also send our solidarity to the leaders at the AFL-CIO who carry forward the work at this critical time.
You can read our full statement here.
GLJ-ILRF and IUF Issue Joint Report Highlighting ILO Convention 11 and One Hundred Years of Advancing Freedom of Association for Farmworkers
GLJ-ILRF and IUF launched a new report marking the 100th anniversary of ILO Convention 11 and its importance in addressing the pervasive and ongoing exclusion of agricultural workers from exercising their fundamental right to freedom of association and collective bargaining.
You can read the forward by IUF General Secretary Sue Longley and GLJ-ILRF Executive Director and the full report here.
GLJ-ILRF Organizer Yoel Featured in Labor Notes on Labor's High Hopes as Chilean's Rewrite the Anti-Labor Constitution
GLJ-ILRF organizer Yoel Bitran published a piece in Labor Notes outlining the potential power of a new constitution for Chilean workers that could open the door for a radical transformation of the labor movement and increased bargaining power for Chile’s working class.
You can read the full piece here.
GLJ-ILRF Executive Director Testifies before the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee on Forded Labor in Global Supply Chains
On Wednesday, July 21st, 2021 GLJ-ILRF’s Executive Director, JJ Rosenbaum testified at the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee hearing to discuss innovative approaches to combat forced labor in global supply chains and how the U.S. government can strengthen enforcement and protect workers. Her testimony highlighted GLJ-ILRF’s work on forced labor on the supply chains of U.S. Corporations in the seafood sector, cotton in Central Asia and the Uyghur Region, and Palm Oil Products.
You can read her statement to the subcommittee here and her written submission here.
The Seafood Working Group’s GLJ-ILRF's Advocacy Wins TIP Report Downgrade for Thailand Based on Forced Labor of Migrant Workers in the Seafood and Other Sectors
On July 8th, GLJ-ILRF and the Seafood Working Group issued a statement calling out the U.S. State Department’s failure to downgrade Taiwan in its 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) ranking based on well documented forced labor in the fishing sector. In April, GLJ-ILRF and Greenpeace, as part of the Seafood Working Group, submitted comments to the U.S. Department of State recommending that Taiwan be downgraded to Tier 2. The working group noted that Taiwan had not met the minimum standards set forth in the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.
Even though Taiwan’s distant water fishing industry has been implicated in numerous investigations and reports for labor trafficking and the government has failed to sufficiently address this problem, the 2021 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report issued on July 1, 2021, maintained Taiwan at Tier 1 (the highest ranking for anti-trafficking efforts) for the twelfth consecutive year.
You can read the full statement here and watch a panel discussion here.
The Seafood Working Group’s Advocacy Leads to TIP Report Downgrade for Thailand Based on Forced Labor of Migrant Workers
In April, GLJ-ILRF as part of the Seafood Working Group -- a global coalition of 30 labor, human rights, and environmental organizations -- submitted comments to the U.S. Department of State recommending that Thailand be downgraded to Tier 2 Watch List. The working group noted that Thailand had not met the minimum standards set forth in the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.
On July 1st, the U.S. Department of State released its 2021 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report downgrading Thailand to Tier 2 Watch List. The report found the Thai government did not demonstrate overall increasing efforts to address trafficking compared to the previous year nor has it effectively addressed the forced labor of migrant workers. Numerous reports and investigations have implicated Thailand in labor abuses and trafficking of migrant workers, particularly in the fishing, seafood and garment sectors. Thailand was listed as Tier 2 for the three years prior and this decision to downgrade gives important recognition that the government has failed to sufficiently address this problem.
You can read the full statement here.
GLJ-ILRF and NYU School of Law U.S.-Asia Law Institute Release Joint Report on Gender-Based Violence and Harassment in China
On the second anniversary of ILO Convention C190, GLJ-ILRF and NYU’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute published a report examining the Chinese Government’s actions to end gender-based violence and harassment at work. The report analyzes how the Chinese government can concretely align its domestic law and practice with ILO Convention C190 and what Chinese employers, Chinese workers’ organizations and global brands can do to address gender-based violence and harassment in the Chinese workplace.
The full report is available here.
GLJ-IRLF Sends Letter in Support of SITRATALSA Trade Union Leader Santos Celestina Carranza Ruiz
GLJ-ILRF sent a letter asking the Ministry of Labor of Peru to intervene in the unjust firing and persecution of Peruvian trade union leader Santos Celestina Carranza Ruiz by the agribusiness company Tal SA. The company has accused workers of criminal and labor rights offenses in order to destroy the union and intimidate workers from speaking out and defending workers’ rights. GLJ-ILRF is demanding the reinstatement of SITRATALSA Trade Union Leader Santos Celestina Carranza Rui and asking TalSa to respect the rights of workers to organize and for the anti-union culture that exists at TalSA to stop.
You can read the letter here.
The Seafood Working Group Calls on the U.S. State Department to Urge Thailand to Withdraw Proposed Law that Threatens Organizations Combatting Human Trafficking
In June, GLJ-ILRF together with dozens of worker rights and human rights organizations participating in the Seafood Working Group released a letter expressing deep concern regarding Thailand’s draft Act on the Operation of Not-for-Profit Organizations. If enacted, this Council of State drafted law would pose serious threats to the functioning of Thai civil society as well as have a deeply damaging impact on both donors and international non-governmental organizations working to address human trafficking and improve labor rights in Thailand. For this reason, the signatories called on the U.S. State Department, and in particular the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, to strongly advocate for the Thai government to withdraw this bill.
You can read the letter here.
GLJ-ILRF in the News
Human Rights Groups Decry Taiwan’s Tier 1 Human Trafficking Rating by U.S.
UNDERCURRENT NEWS | JUL 8, 2021
Thailand Disappointed with Downgrade in Latest US Human Trafficking Report
SEAFOOD SOURCE | JUL 7, 2021
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Monitors Imports to Curb Products Made by Forced Labor
THE WORLD/PRI | APR 30, 2021
Inadequacy of U.S. Screening System for IUU Risks Laid Bare in Trade Study
SEAFOOD SOURCE | APR 7, 2021
As Boohoo Comes Under US Customs' Microscope, What Companies Need to Know About Their Supply Chains
THE FASHION LAW | MAR 3, 2021
In Solidarity,
GLJ-ILRF
1634 I St NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20006, USA | +1 (202) 347-4100
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Today=E2=80=99s newsletter highlights our efforts to expand labor rights an=
d new forms of bargaining on global supply chains, capital markets, and int=
ernational labor migration corridors including:=20
Indian Union Leader Thivya Rakini Inspires APALA Convention with Lessons of=
Organizing on Global Supply Chains from the South and Calls for Global Sol=
idarity with Garment Workers in Honor of Jeyasre Kathiravel
GLJ-ILRF Mourns the Passing of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Honors =
His Legacy Promoting International Labor Solidarity
GLJ-ILRF and IUF Issue Joint Report Highlighting ILO Convention 11 and One =
Hundred Years of Advancing Freedom of Association for Farmworkers=20
GLJ-ILRF Organizer Yoel Featured in Labor Notes on Labor's High Hopes as Ch=
ilean's Rewrite the Anti-Labor Constitution
GLJ-ILRF Executive Director Testifies before the House Ways and Means Trade=
Subcommittee on Forded Labor in Global Supply Chains
GLJ-ILRF and Seafood Working Group Highlight TIP Report's Failure to Downgr=
ade Taiwan Despite Forced Labor in the Fishing Sector
The Seafood Working Group=E2=80=99s Advocacy Leads to TIP Report Downgrade =
for Thailand Based on Forced Labor of Migrant Workers=20
GLJ-ILRF and NYU School of Law U.S.-Asia Law Institute Release Joint Report=
on Gender-Based Violence and Harassment in China =20
GLJ-IRLF Sends Letter in Support of SITRATALSA Trade Union Leader Santos Ce=
lestina Carranza Ruiz
The Seafood Working Group Calls on the U.S. State Department to Urge Thaila=
nd to Withdraw Proposed Law that Threatens Organizations Combatting Human T=
rafficking=20
=20
Indian Union Leader Thivya Rakini Inspires APALA Convention with Lessons of=
Organizing on Global Supply Chains from the South and Calls for Global Sol=
idarity with Garment Workers in Honor of Jeyasre Kathiravel
Indian Union Leader Thivya Rakini, President of the Tamil Nadu Textile and =
Common Labour Union (TTCU) addressed the Asian Pacific American Labor Allia=
nce=E2=80=99s 16th Biennial Convention. Thivya shared the legacy of Jeyasre=
Kathiravel, a young Dalit woman and union member who was organizing for be=
tter conditions at her workplace and was killed by her supervisor inspiring=
the Justice for Jeyasre campaign to honor her legacy and demand serious lo=
ng term changes including an end to gender-based violence and harassment an=
d freedom of association for garment workers in Tamil Nadu and beyond. Thiv=
ya inspired APALA Convention attendees with the energy and spirit of TTCU=
=E2=80=99s women members as they organize to transform conditions on the gl=
obal supply chains of major fashion brands. She also shared their transfor=
mative vision of dignified work and life for those who sew the clothes that=
many of the convention members wear every day.=20
You can read more here.=20
=20
GLJ-ILRF Mourns the Passing of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Honors =
His Legacy Promoting International Labor Solidarity
Global Labor Justice-International Labor Rights Forum (GLJ-IRLF), our staff=
, and our allied unions and community organizations around the globe mourn =
the loss of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. As a third-generation miner a=
nd son of immigrant parents, President Trumka often publicly called on that=
experience as he defended important positions for working people and union=
s in the U.S. and around the world. We send our deepest condolences to his =
family and friends as we honor President Trumka=E2=80=99s powerful legacy=
=E2=80=94he fought hard battles and left the world a better place for union=
s and working people. We also send our solidarity to the leaders at the AFL=
-CIO who carry forward the work at this critical time.
You can read our full statement here.=20
=20
GLJ-ILRF and IUF Issue Joint Report Highlighting ILO Convention 11 and One =
Hundred Years of Advancing Freedom of Association for Farmworkers =20
GLJ-ILRF and IUF launched a new report marking the 100th anniversary of ILO=
Convention 11 and its importance in addressing the pervasive and ongoing e=
xclusion of agricultural workers from exercising their fundamental right to=
freedom of association and collective bargaining.=20
You can read the forward by IUF General Secretary Sue Longley and GLJ-ILRF =
Executive Director and the full report here.
=20
GLJ-ILRF Organizer Yoel Featured in Labor Notes on Labor's High Hopes as Ch=
ilean's Rewrite the Anti-Labor Constitution
GLJ-ILRF organizer Yoel Bitran published a piece in Labor Notes outlining t=
he potential power of a new constitution for Chilean workers that could ope=
n the door for a radical transformation of the labor movement and increased=
bargaining power for Chile=E2=80=99s working class.=20
You can read the full piece here.=20
=20
GLJ-ILRF Executive Director Testifies before the House Ways and Means Trade=
Subcommittee on Forded Labor in Global Supply Chains
On Wednesday, July 21st, 2021 GLJ-ILRF=E2=80=99s Executive Director, JJ Ros=
enbaum testified at the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means Trade Subcom=
mittee hearing to discuss innovative approaches to combat forced labor in g=
lobal supply chains and how the U.S. government can strengthen enforcement =
and protect workers. Her testimony highlighted GLJ-ILRF=E2=80=99s work on =
forced labor on the supply chains of U.S. Corporations in the seafood secto=
r, cotton in Central Asia and the Uyghur Region, and Palm Oil Products. =20
You can read her statement to the subcommittee here and her written submiss=
ion here.
=20
The Seafood Working Group=E2=80=99s GLJ-ILRF's Advocacy Wins TIP Report Dow=
ngrade for Thailand Based on Forced Labor of Migrant Workers in the Seafood=
and Other Sectors
On July 8th, GLJ-ILRF and the Seafood Working Group issued a statement call=
ing out the U.S. State Department=E2=80=99s failure to downgrade Taiwan in =
its 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) ranking based on well documen=
ted forced labor in the fishing sector. In April, GLJ-ILRF and Greenpeace, =
as part of the Seafood Working Group, submitted comments to the U.S. Depart=
ment of State recommending that Taiwan be downgraded to Tier 2. The working=
group noted that Taiwan had not met the minimum standards set forth in the=
U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.=20
Even though Taiwan=E2=80=99s distant water fishing industry has been implic=
ated in numerous investigations and reports for labor trafficking and the g=
overnment has failed to sufficiently address this problem, the 2021 Traffi=
cking in Persons (TIP) Report issued on July 1, 2021, maintained Taiwan at =
Tier 1 (the highest ranking for anti-trafficking efforts) for the twelfth c=
onsecutive year. =20
You can read the full statement here and watch a panel discussion here.
=20
The Seafood Working Group=E2=80=99s Advocacy Leads to TIP Report Downgrade =
for Thailand Based on Forced Labor of Migrant Workers=20
In April, GLJ-ILRF as part of the Seafood Working Group -- a global coaliti=
on of 30 labor, human rights, and environmental organizations -- submitted =
comments to the U.S. Department of State recommending that Thailand be down=
graded to Tier 2 Watch List. The working group noted that Thailand had not =
met the minimum standards set forth in the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protect=
ion Act of 2000.=20
On July 1st, the U.S. Department of State released its 2021 Trafficking in =
Persons (TIP) Report downgrading Thailand to Tier 2 Watch List. The report =
found the Thai government did not demonstrate overall increasing efforts to=
address trafficking compared to the previous year nor has it effectively a=
ddressed the forced labor of migrant workers. Numerous reports and investig=
ations have implicated Thailand in labor abuses and trafficking of migrant =
workers, particularly in the fishing, seafood and garment sectors. Thailand=
was listed as Tier 2 for the three years prior and this decision to downgr=
ade gives important recognition that the government has failed to sufficien=
tly address this problem.
You can read the full statement here.
=20
GLJ-ILRF and NYU School of Law U.S.-Asia Law Institute Release Joint Report=
on Gender-Based Violence and Harassment in China=20
On the second anniversary of ILO Convention C190, GLJ-ILRF and NYU=E2=80=99=
s U.S.-Asia Law Institute published a report examining the Chinese Governme=
nt=E2=80=99s actions to end gender-based violence and harassment at work. T=
he report analyzes how the Chinese government can concretely align its dome=
stic law and practice with ILO Convention C190 and what Chinese employers, =
Chinese workers=E2=80=99 organizations and global brands can do to address =
gender-based violence and harassment in the Chinese workplace.
The full report is available here.
=20
GLJ-IRLF Sends Letter in Support of SITRATALSA Trade Union Leader Santos Ce=
lestina Carranza Ruiz
GLJ-ILRF sent a letter asking the Ministry of Labor of Peru to intervene in=
the unjust firing and persecution of Peruvian trade union leader Santos Ce=
lestina Carranza Ruiz by the agribusiness company Tal SA. The company has a=
ccused workers of criminal and labor rights offenses in order to destroy th=
e union and intimidate workers from speaking out and defending workers=E2=
=80=99 rights. GLJ-ILRF is demanding the reinstatement of SITRATALSA Trade =
Union Leader Santos Celestina Carranza Rui and asking TalSa to respect the =
rights of workers to organize and for the anti-union culture that exists at=
TalSA to stop.=20
You can read the letter here.=20
=20
The Seafood Working Group Calls on the U.S. State Department to Urge Thaila=
nd to Withdraw Proposed Law that Threatens Organizations Combatting Human T=
rafficking=20
In June, GLJ-ILRF together with dozens of worker rights and human rights or=
ganizations participating in the Seafood Working Group released a letter ex=
pressing deep concern regarding Thailand=E2=80=99s draft Act on the Operati=
on of Not-for-Profit Organizations. If enacted, this Council of State draft=
ed law would pose serious threats to the functioning of Thai civil society =
as well as have a deeply damaging impact on both donors and international n=
on-governmental organizations working to address human trafficking and impr=
ove labor rights in Thailand. For this reason, the signatories called on th=
e U.S. State Department, and in particular the Office to Monitor and Combat=
Trafficking in Persons, to strongly advocate for the Thai government to wi=
thdraw this bill.
You can read the letter here.=20
=20
GLJ-ILRF in the News=20
Human Rights Groups Decry Taiwan=E2=80=99s Tier 1 Human Trafficking Rating =
by U.S.
UNDERCURRENT NEWS | JUL 8, 2021
=20
Thailand Disappointed with Downgrade in Latest US Human Trafficking Report
SEAFOOD SOURCE | JUL 7, 2021
=20
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Monitors Imports to Curb Products Made b=
y Forced Labor
THE WORLD/PRI | APR 30, 2021
=20
Inadequacy of U.S. Screening System for IUU Risks Laid Bare in Trade Study
SEAFOOD SOURCE | APR 7, 2021
=20
As Boohoo Comes Under US Customs' Microscope, What Companies Need to Know A=
bout Their Supply Chains
THE FASHION LAW | MAR 3, 2021
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<th class=3D"columns small-12 large-12 first last" style=3D"w=
ord-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: top; color: #3c4144; font-family: Tah=
oma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; text-align: left; font=
-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0 auto; Margin: 0 auto; padding-top:=
24px; padding-bottom: 24px; word-break: break-word; width: 564px; padding-=
left: 24px; padding-right: 24px; border-collapse: collapse;"><p style=3D"co=
lor: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padd=
ing: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-heigh=
t: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weig=
ht: 400;">Today=E2=80=99s</span><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;"> newslett=
er highlights</span><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;"> our efforts to expan=
d labor rights and new forms of bargaining on global supply chains, capital=
markets, and international labor migration corridors including: </spa=
n></p>=20
<ul>=20
<li style=3D"font-weight: 400;" aria-level=3D"1"><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
vb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfonEDBX6FIsRTmfEL79_rn4=3D" =
style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height=
: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Indian Union Leader Thivya Rakini=
Inspires APALA Convention with Lessons of Organizing on Global Supply Chai=
ns from the South and Calls for Global Solidarity with Garment Workers in H=
onor of Jeyasre Kathiravel</span></a></li>=20
<li style=3D"font-weight: 400;" aria-level=3D"1"><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
vb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfvOO-IdxhFxgxQPh6jV5VCU=3D" =
style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height=
: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">GLJ-ILRF Mourns the Passing of AF=
L-CIO President Richard Trumka and Honors His Legacy Promoting Internationa=
l Labor Solidarity</span></a></li>=20
<li style=3D"font-weight: 400;" aria-level=3D"1"><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
vb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfuGEjybkkUfqimhhG5B4c0o=3D" =
style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height=
: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">GLJ-ILRF and IUF Issue Joint Repo=
rt Highlighting ILO Convention 11 and One Hundred Years of Advancing Freedo=
m of Association for Farmworkers </span></a></li>=20
<li style=3D"font-weight: 400;" aria-level=3D"1"><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
vb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfjVm6YWSo_V8cN181FeqVk4=3D" =
style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height=
: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">GLJ-ILRF Organizer Yoel Featured =
in Labor Notes on Labor's High Hopes as Chilean's Rewrite the Anti-Labor Co=
nstitution</span></a></li>=20
<li style=3D"font-weight: 400;" aria-level=3D"1"><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
vb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfhmZCSop4UZLDzJvC5u3acE=3D" =
style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height=
: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">GLJ-ILRF Executive Director Testi=
fies before the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee on Forded Labor in =
Global Supply Chains</span></a></li>=20
<li style=3D"font-weight: 400;" aria-level=3D"1"><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
vb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfipAOgGBwTeLZgXFvXE6QCY=3D" =
style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height=
: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">GLJ-ILRF and Seafood Working Grou=
p Highlight TIP Report's Failure to Downgrade Taiwan Despite Forced Labor i=
n the Fishing Sector</span></a></li>=20
<li style=3D"font-weight: 400;" aria-level=3D"1"><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
vb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfiROK0Bdkop8LRtmSj_COPA=3D" =
style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height=
: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">The Seafood Working Group=E2=80=
=99s Advocacy Leads to TIP Report Downgrade for Thailand Based on Forced La=
bor of Migrant Workers </span></a></li>=20
<li style=3D"font-weight: 400;" aria-level=3D"1"><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
vb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfgze93WOxRxQ1oQbnE-iJc4=3D" =
style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height=
: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">GLJ-ILRF and NYU School of Law U.=
S.-Asia Law Institute Release Joint Report on Gender-Based Violence and Har=
assment in China </span></a><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;"> </span>=
</li>=20
<li style=3D"font-weight: 400;" aria-level=3D"1"><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
vb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfkgnLAVtH30Ud8pusj-YgaM=3D" =
style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height=
: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">GLJ-IRLF Sends Letter in Support =
of SITRATALSA Trade Union Leader Santos Celestina Carranza Ruiz</span></a><=
/li>=20
<li style=3D"font-weight: 400;" aria-level=3D"1"><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
vb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfgtliDL5aTGiTmK_9jMUbxI=3D" =
style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height=
: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">The Seafood Working Group Calls o=
n the U.S. State Department to Urge Thailand to Withdraw Proposed Law that =
Threatens Organizations Combatting Human Trafficking </span></a></li>=
=20
</ul> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva=
,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align=
: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bott=
om: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Genev=
a,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-alig=
n: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bot=
tom: 10px;"><a href=3D"[link removed]
k/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUflaWfN=
pRJOue3Ygi18bQnX0=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-=
family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-al=
ign: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>Indian Union Leader Thivya Rakini Ins=
pires APALA Convention with Lessons of Organizing on Global Supply Chains f=
rom the South and Calls for Global Solidarity with Garment Workers in Honor=
of Jeyasre Kathiravel</strong></a></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-fa=
mily: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Ma=
rgin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom=
: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Indian Unio=
n Leader Thivya Rakini, President of the Tamil Nadu Textile and Common Labo=
ur Union (TTCU) addressed the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance=E2=80=
=99s 16th Biennial Convention. Thivya shared the legacy of Jeyasre Kathirav=
el, a young Dalit woman and union member who was organizing for better cond=
itions at her workplace and was killed by her supervisor inspiring the Just=
ice for Jeyasre campaign to honor her legacy and demand serious long term c=
hanges including an end to gender-based violence and harassment and freedom=
of association for garment workers in Tamil Nadu and beyond. Thivya inspir=
ed APALA Convention attendees with the energy and spirit of TTCU=E2=80=99s =
women members as they organize to transform conditions on the global supply=
chains of major fashion brands. She also shared their transformative=
vision of dignified work and life for those who sew the clothes that many =
of the convention members wear every day. </span></p> <p style=3D"colo=
r: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; paddin=
g: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height:=
1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>You can read more =
</strong><a href=3D"[link removed]
JNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfkpKMzUNN=
kA95Hc4ztUC1w8=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-fam=
ily: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align=
: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>. </strong=
></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; fo=
nt-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-si=
ze: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;">&nbs=
p;</p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; f=
ont-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-s=
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href=3D"[link removed]
cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfnjK-v0DeY7Ld0y_9Ipp6=
uk=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,=
Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line=
-height: 1.5;"><strong>GLJ-ILRF Mourns the Passing of AFL-CIO President Ric=
hard Trumka and Honors His Legacy Promoting International Labor Solidarity<=
/strong></a></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,san=
s-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: le=
ft; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: =
10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Global Labor Justice-International=
Labor Rights Forum (GLJ-IRLF), our staff, and our allied unions and commun=
ity organizations around the globe mourn the loss of AFL-CIO President Rich=
ard Trumka. As a third-generation miner and son of immigrant parents, Presi=
dent Trumka often publicly called on that experience as he defended importa=
nt positions for working people and unions in the U.S. and around the world=
. We send our deepest condolences to his family and friends as we honor Pre=
sident Trumka=E2=80=99s powerful legacy=E2=80=94he fought hard battles and =
left the world a better place for unions and working people. We also send o=
ur solidarity to the leaders at the AFL-CIO who carry forward the work at t=
his critical time.</span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Taho=
ma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; t=
ext-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Ma=
rgin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>You can read our full statement <a href=3D"http=
s://api.neonemails.com/emails/tracking/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1=
GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfk45w7pXdRj7pEMHVh0u8nM=3D" style=
=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-=
serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5=
;">here</a>. </strong></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Ta=
homa,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0;=
text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; =
Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: T=
ahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0=
; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px;=
Margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href=3D"[link removed]
g/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvn=
Fj8hUfv-y48d232uP7ixhmyE1OkA=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: =
none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding:=
0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>GLJ-ILRF and IUF Issue Joi=
nt Report Highlighting ILO Convention 11 and One Hundred Years of Advancing=
Freedom of Association for Farmworkers </strong></a><a href=3D"[link removed]
.neonemails.com/emails/tracking/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JA=
gawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfr6gf-yPbAX249LbKpNOVVE=3D" style=3D"col=
or: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; =
font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><str=
ong> </strong></a></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma=
,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; tex=
t-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Marg=
in-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">GLJ-ILRF and IUF launch=
ed a new report marking the 100th anniversary of ILO Convention 11 and its =
importance in addressing the pervasive and ongoing exclusion of agricultura=
l workers from exercising their fundamental right to freedom of association=
and collective bargaining. </span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; fo=
nt-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: =
0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-b=
ottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>You can read the forward by IUF =
General Secretary Sue Longley and GLJ-ILRF Executive Director and the full =
report </strong><a href=3D"[link removed]
-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfq=
NQAYpu0sA3Bow1I20OGrQ=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; f=
ont-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; tex=
t-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>.</stron=
g></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; f=
ont-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-s=
ize: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;">&nb=
sp;</p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; =
font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-=
size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><a=
href=3D"[link removed]
3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfnNO3qdOkzfawrrepMBA=
aDY=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma=
,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; lin=
e-height: 1.5;"><strong>GLJ-ILRF Organizer Yoel Featured in Labor Notes on =
Labor's High Hopes as Chilean's Rewrite the Anti-Labor Constitution</strong=
></a></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif=
; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; fon=
t-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;">=
<span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">GLJ-ILRF organizer Yoel Bitran published =
a piece in Labor Notes outlining the potential power of a new constitution =
for Chilean workers that could open the door for a radical transformation o=
f the labor movement and increased bargaining power for Chile=E2=80=99s wor=
king class. </span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahom=
a,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; te=
xt-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Mar=
gin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>You can read the full piece </strong><a href=3D"=
[link removed]
b1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfl2tZo327d044ep9ODkkpi0=3D" s=
tyle=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,s=
ans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height:=
1.5;"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>. </strong></p> <p style=3D"color: =
#3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: =
0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.=
5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color:=
#3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding:=
0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1=
.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href=3D"[link removed]
mails.com/emails/tracking/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLl=
s1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfoysUlt8FrtfKeKzgfqgzAo=3D" style=3D"color: #0=
074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-w=
eight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>GL=
J-ILRF Executive Director Testifies before the House Ways and Means Trade S=
ubcommittee on Forded Labor in Global Supply Chains</strong></a></p> <p sty=
le=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 4=
00; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; li=
ne-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"f=
ont-weight: 400;">On Wednesday, July 21st, 2021 GLJ-ILRF=E2=80=99s Executiv=
e Director, JJ Rosenbaum testified at the U.S. House Committee on Ways and =
Means Trade Subcommittee hearing to discuss innovative approaches to combat=
forced labor in global supply chains and how the U.S. government can stren=
gthen enforcement and protect workers. Her testimony highlighted GLJ-=
ILRF=E2=80=99s work on forced labor on the supply chains of U.S. Corporatio=
ns in the seafood sector, cotton in Central Asia and the Uyghur Region, and=
Palm Oil Products. </span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font=
-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0;=
Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bot=
tom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>You can read her statement to the =
subcommittee </strong><a href=3D"[link removed]
/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnF=
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one; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: =
0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>here</strong></a><strong> a=
nd her written submission </strong><a href=3D"[link removed]
ails/tracking/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30=
bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfuB2hBdad-FjqAuwd3X7kls=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-=
decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inher=
it; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>here</strong><=
/a><strong>.</strong></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,G=
eneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-=
align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin=
-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,=
Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text=
-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margi=
n-bottom: 10px;"><a href=3D"[link removed]
k-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUf=
mGFS3MvftgJsp5q7zBL7d8=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; =
font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; te=
xt-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>The Seafood Working Group=E2=80=
=99s GLJ-ILRF's Advocacy Wins TIP Report Downgrade for Thailand Based on Fo=
rced Labor of Migrant Workers in the Seafood and Other Sectors</strong></a>=
</p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; fon=
t-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-siz=
e: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span=
style=3D"font-weight: 400;">On July 8th, GLJ-ILRF and the Seafood Working =
Group issued a statement calling out the U.S. State Department=E2=80=99s fa=
ilure to downgrade Taiwan in its 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP)&n=
bsp; ranking based on well documented forced labor in the fishing sector. I=
n April, GLJ-ILRF and Greenpeace, as part of the Seafood Working Group, sub=
mitted comments to the U.S. Department of State recommending that Taiwan be=
downgraded to Tier 2. The working group noted that Taiwan had not met the =
minimum standards set forth in the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act =
of 2000. </span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,G=
eneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-=
align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin=
-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Even though Taiwan=E2=80=
=99s distant water fishing industry has been implicated in numerous investi=
gations and reports for labor trafficking and the government has failed to =
sufficiently address this problem, the 2021 Trafficking in Persons (T=
IP) Report issued on July 1, 2021, maintained Taiwan at Tier 1 (the highest=
ranking for anti-trafficking efforts) for the twelfth consecutive year.&nb=
sp; </span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva=
,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align=
: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bott=
om: 10px;"><strong>You can read the full statement </strong><a href=3D"http=
s://api.neonemails.com/emails/tracking/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1=
GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfgB-RWD0oveD44IowGA8IG8=3D" style=
=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-=
serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5=
;"><strong>here</strong></a><strong> and watch a panel discussion </strong>=
<a href=3D"[link removed]
gI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfq4acBNcZU1Vo1LMON=
JWkhM=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Taho=
ma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; l=
ine-height: 1.5;"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p> <p style=
=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400=
; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line=
-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p styl=
e=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 40=
0; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; lin=
e-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href=3D"https:=
//api.neonemails.com/emails/tracking/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1Gg=
hS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfpEw7kInW33S3HWqVdY1sRk=3D" style=
=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-=
serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5=
;"><strong>The Seafood Working Group=E2=80=99s Advocacy Leads to TIP Report=
Downgrade for Thailand Based on Forced Labor of Migrant Workers </str=
ong></a></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-se=
rif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; =
font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px=
;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">In April, GLJ-ILRF as part of the Seaf=
ood Working Group -- a global coalition of 30 labor, human rights, and envi=
ronmental organizations -- submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Sta=
te recommending that Thailand be downgraded to Tier 2 Watch List. The worki=
ng group noted that Thailand had not met the minimum standards set forth in=
the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. </span></p> <p s=
tyle=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight:=
400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; =
line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D=
"font-weight: 400;">On July 1st, the U.S. Department of State released its =
2021 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report downgrading Thailand to Tier 2 Wat=
ch List. The report found the Thai government did not demonstrate overall i=
ncreasing efforts to address trafficking compared to the previous year nor =
has it effectively addressed the forced labor of migrant workers. Numerous =
reports and investigations have implicated Thailand in labor abuses and tra=
fficking of migrant workers, particularly in the fishing, seafood and garme=
nt sectors. Thailand was listed as Tier 2 for the three years prior and thi=
s decision to downgrade gives important recognition that the government has=
failed to sufficiently address this problem.</span></p> <p style=3D"color:=
#3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding:=
0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1=
.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong> You can read t=
he full statement </strong><a href=3D"[link removed]
cking/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pV=
MQvnFj8hUfijjsw-gGfTxO0IdlStXoYo=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decorati=
on: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padd=
ing: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>here</strong></a><stro=
ng>.</strong></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sa=
ns-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: l=
eft; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom:=
10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,s=
ans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: =
left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom=
: 10px;"><a href=3D"[link removed]
JNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfv4NtjGGy=
OfG9Glj-4d5O3I=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-fam=
ily: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align=
: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>GLJ-ILRF and NYU School of Law U.S.-Asia=
Law Institute Release Joint Report on Gender-Based Violence and Harassment=
in China </strong></a></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: T=
ahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0=
; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px;=
Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">On the second anni=
versary of ILO Convention C190, GLJ-ILRF and NYU=E2=80=99s U.S.-Asia Law In=
stitute published a report examining the Chinese Government=E2=80=99s actio=
ns to end gender-based violence and harassment at work. The report analyzes=
how the Chinese government can concretely align its domestic law and pract=
ice with ILO Convention C190 and what Chinese employers, Chinese workers=E2=
=80=99 organizations and global brands can do to address gender-based viole=
nce and harassment in the Chinese workplace.</span></p> <p style=3D"color: =
#3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: =
0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.=
5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>The full report is av=
ailable </strong><a href=3D"[link removed]
k-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUf=
o8rcUF0x_vAvLxmzdJ19So=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; =
font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; te=
xt-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>here.</strong></a></p> <p style=
=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400=
; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line=
-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p styl=
e=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 40=
0; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; lin=
e-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href=3D"https:=
//api.neonemails.com/emails/tracking/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1Gg=
hS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfgPZ9p3Gdl5C2Yn4OtidZIE=3D" style=
=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-=
serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5=
;"><strong>GLJ-IRLF Sends Letter in Support of SITRATALSA Trade Union Leade=
r Santos Celestina Carranza Ruiz</strong></a></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c414=
4; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; mar=
gin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; mar=
gin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">G=
LJ-ILRF sent a letter asking the Ministry of Labor of Peru to intervene in =
the unjust firing and persecution of Peruvian trade union leader Santos Cel=
estina Carranza Ruiz by the agribusiness company Tal SA. The company has ac=
cused workers of criminal and labor rights offenses in order to destroy the=
union and intimidate workers from speaking out and defending workers=E2=80=
=99 rights. GLJ-ILRF is demanding the reinstatement of SITRATALSA Trade Uni=
on Leader Santos Celestina Carranza Rui and asking TalSa to respect the rig=
hts of workers to organize and for the anti-union culture that exists at Ta=
lSA to stop. </span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Taho=
ma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; t=
ext-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Ma=
rgin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>You can read the letter </strong><a href=3D"htt=
ps://api.neonemails.com/emails/tracking/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u=
1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfpIghLMfhUrEVXCDthSx02Q=3D" styl=
e=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans=
-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.=
5;"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>.</strong><span style=3D"font-weight: =
400;"> </span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,s=
ans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: =
left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom=
: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align:=
left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-botto=
m: 10px;"><a href=3D"[link removed]
EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfgdq37qJ=
7QP-hGtEtI2Hd88=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-fa=
mily: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-alig=
n: left; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>The Seafood Working Group Calls on the =
U.S. State Department to Urge Thailand to Withdraw Proposed Law that Threat=
ens Organizations Combatting Human Trafficking </strong></a></p> <p st=
yle=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: =
400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; l=
ine-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"=
font-weight: 400;">In June, GLJ-ILRF together with dozens of worker rights =
and human rights organizations participating in the Seafood Working Group r=
eleased a letter expressing deep concern regarding Thailand=E2=80=99s draft=
Act on the Operation of Not-for-Profit Organizations. If enacted, this Cou=
ncil of State drafted law would pose serious threats to the functioning of =
Thai civil society as well as have a deeply damaging impact on both donors =
and international non-governmental organizations working to address human t=
rafficking and improve labor rights in Thailand. For this reason, the signa=
tories called on the U.S. State Department, and in particular the Office to=
Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, to strongly advocate for the Th=
ai government to withdraw this bill.</span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144;=
font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margi=
n: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margi=
n-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong>You can read the letter </str=
ong><a href=3D"[link removed]
vz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfpHhF9nTAgwsGj=
JqFEwX4Gk=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: =
Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: lef=
t; line-height: 1.5;"><strong>here</strong></a><strong>. </strong></p> <p s=
tyle=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight:=
400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; =
line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p =
style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight=
: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt;=
line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><strong><span=
style=3D"text-decoration: underline;">GLJ-ILRF in the News</span> </s=
trong></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-seri=
f; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; fo=
nt-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"=
><a href=3D"[link removed]
NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfqbds-JSSpcLra_U2=
9tsAYU=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tah=
oma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; =
line-height: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Human Rights Groups De=
cry Taiwan=E2=80=99s Tier 1 Human Trafficking Rating by U.S.</span></a></p>=
<p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-we=
ight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 1=
2pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span sty=
le=3D"font-weight: 400;">UNDERCURRENT NEWS | JUL 8, 2021</span></p> <=
p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weig=
ht: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12p=
t; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> =
<p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-wei=
ght: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12=
pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href=3D=
"[link removed]
vb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfl3WDAiD_h6k9fRDyt3FFpk=3D" =
style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,=
sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height=
: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">Thailand Disappointed with Downgr=
ade in Latest US Human Trafficking Report</span></a></p> <p style=3D"color:=
#3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding:=
0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1=
.5; margin-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: =
400;">SEAFOOD SOURCE | JUL 7, 2021</span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; f=
ont-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin:=
0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-=
bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; =
font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin=
: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin=
-bottom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href=3D"[link removed]
emails/tracking/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S=
30bW4nK3pVMQvnFj8hUfqDdTx6wWCCuEZEYON8IRG8=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; tex=
t-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inh=
erit; padding: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-=
weight: 400;">U.S. Customs and Border Protection Monitors Imports to Curb P=
roducts Made by Forced Labor</span></a></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; fon=
t-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0=
; Margin: 0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bo=
ttom: 10px; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;">THE WOR=
LD/PRI | APR 30, 2021</span></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: T=
ahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0=
; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px;=
Margin-bottom: 10px;"> </p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: =
Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: =
0; text-align: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px=
; Margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href=3D"[link removed]
ng/click-link/EJNYHxvz0NgI3cQs2hOHvb1u1GghS3JAgawzLls1FBM=3D/S30bW4nK3pVMQv=
nFj8hUftqVxVya_UYSqWgt08sUKv0=3D" style=3D"color: #0074d9; text-decoration:=
none; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; padding=
: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5;"><span style=3D"font-weight: 400;"=
>Inadequacy of U.S. Screening System for IUU Risks Laid Bare in Trade Study=
</span></a></p> <p style=3D"color: #3c4144; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans=
-serif; font-weight: 400; padding: 0; margin: 0; Margin: 0; text-align: lef=
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Today’s newsletter highlights our efforts to expand labor rights and new forms of bargaining on global supply chains, capital markets, and international labor migration corridors including:
Indian Union Leader Thivya Rakini Inspires APALA Convention with Lessons of Organizing on Global Supply Chains from the South and Calls for Global Solidarity with Garment Workers in Honor of Jeyasre Kathiravel
GLJ-ILRF Mourns the Passing of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Honors His Legacy Promoting International Labor Solidarity
GLJ-ILRF and IUF Issue Joint Report Highlighting ILO Convention 11 and One Hundred Years of Advancing Freedom of Association for Farmworkers
GLJ-ILRF Organizer Yoel Featured in Labor Notes on Labor's High Hopes as Chilean's Rewrite the Anti-Labor Constitution
GLJ-ILRF Executive Director Testifies before the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee on Forded Labor in Global Supply Chains
GLJ-ILRF and Seafood Working Group Highlight TIP Report's Failure to Downgrade Taiwan Despite Forced Labor in the Fishing Sector
The Seafood Working Group’s Advocacy Leads to TIP Report Downgrade for Thailand Based on Forced Labor of Migrant Workers
GLJ-ILRF and NYU School of Law U.S.-Asia Law Institute Release Joint Report on Gender-Based Violence and Harassment in China
GLJ-IRLF Sends Letter in Support of SITRATALSA Trade Union Leader Santos Celestina Carranza Ruiz
The Seafood Working Group Calls on the U.S. State Department to Urge Thailand to Withdraw Proposed Law that Threatens Organizations Combatting Human Trafficking
Indian Union Leader Thivya Rakini Inspires APALA Convention with Lessons of Organizing on Global Supply Chains from the South and Calls for Global Solidarity with Garment Workers in Honor of Jeyasre Kathiravel
Indian Union Leader Thivya Rakini, President of the Tamil Nadu Textile and Common Labour Union (TTCU) addressed the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance’s 16th Biennial Convention. Thivya shared the legacy of Jeyasre Kathiravel, a young Dalit woman and union member who was organizing for better conditions at her workplace and was killed by her supervisor inspiring the Justice for Jeyasre campaign to honor her legacy and demand serious long term changes including an end to gender-based violence and harassment and freedom of association for garment workers in Tamil Nadu and beyond. Thivya inspired APALA Convention attendees with the energy and spirit of TTCU’s women members as they organize to transform conditions on the global supply chains of major fashion brands. She also shared their transformative vision of dignified work and life for those who sew the clothes that many of the convention members wear every day.
You can read more here.
GLJ-ILRF Mourns the Passing of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Honors His Legacy Promoting International Labor Solidarity
Global Labor Justice-International Labor Rights Forum (GLJ-IRLF), our staff, and our allied unions and community organizations around the globe mourn the loss of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. As a third-generation miner and son of immigrant parents, President Trumka often publicly called on that experience as he defended important positions for working people and unions in the U.S. and around the world. We send our deepest condolences to his family and friends as we honor President Trumka’s powerful legacy—he fought hard battles and left the world a better place for unions and working people. We also send our solidarity to the leaders at the AFL-CIO who carry forward the work at this critical time.
You can read our full statement here.
GLJ-ILRF and IUF Issue Joint Report Highlighting ILO Convention 11 and One Hundred Years of Advancing Freedom of Association for Farmworkers
GLJ-ILRF and IUF launched a new report marking the 100th anniversary of ILO Convention 11 and its importance in addressing the pervasive and ongoing exclusion of agricultural workers from exercising their fundamental right to freedom of association and collective bargaining.
You can read the forward by IUF General Secretary Sue Longley and GLJ-ILRF Executive Director and the full report here.
GLJ-ILRF Organizer Yoel Featured in Labor Notes on Labor's High Hopes as Chilean's Rewrite the Anti-Labor Constitution
GLJ-ILRF organizer Yoel Bitran published a piece in Labor Notes outlining the potential power of a new constitution for Chilean workers that could open the door for a radical transformation of the labor movement and increased bargaining power for Chile’s working class.
You can read the full piece here.
GLJ-ILRF Executive Director Testifies before the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee on Forded Labor in Global Supply Chains
On Wednesday, July 21st, 2021 GLJ-ILRF’s Executive Director, JJ Rosenbaum testified at the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee hearing to discuss innovative approaches to combat forced labor in global supply chains and how the U.S. government can strengthen enforcement and protect workers. Her testimony highlighted GLJ-ILRF’s work on forced labor on the supply chains of U.S. Corporations in the seafood sector, cotton in Central Asia and the Uyghur Region, and Palm Oil Products.
You can read her statement to the subcommittee here and her written submission here.
The Seafood Working Group’s GLJ-ILRF's Advocacy Wins TIP Report Downgrade for Thailand Based on Forced Labor of Migrant Workers in the Seafood and Other Sectors
On July 8th, GLJ-ILRF and the Seafood Working Group issued a statement calling out the U.S. State Department’s failure to downgrade Taiwan in its 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) ranking based on well documented forced labor in the fishing sector. In April, GLJ-ILRF and Greenpeace, as part of the Seafood Working Group, submitted comments to the U.S. Department of State recommending that Taiwan be downgraded to Tier 2. The working group noted that Taiwan had not met the minimum standards set forth in the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.
Even though Taiwan’s distant water fishing industry has been implicated in numerous investigations and reports for labor trafficking and the government has failed to sufficiently address this problem, the 2021 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report issued on July 1, 2021, maintained Taiwan at Tier 1 (the highest ranking for anti-trafficking efforts) for the twelfth consecutive year.
You can read the full statement here and watch a panel discussion here.
The Seafood Working Group’s Advocacy Leads to TIP Report Downgrade for Thailand Based on Forced Labor of Migrant Workers
In April, GLJ-ILRF as part of the Seafood Working Group -- a global coalition of 30 labor, human rights, and environmental organizations -- submitted comments to the U.S. Department of State recommending that Thailand be downgraded to Tier 2 Watch List. The working group noted that Thailand had not met the minimum standards set forth in the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.
On July 1st, the U.S. Department of State released its 2021 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report downgrading Thailand to Tier 2 Watch List. The report found the Thai government did not demonstrate overall increasing efforts to address trafficking compared to the previous year nor has it effectively addressed the forced labor of migrant workers. Numerous reports and investigations have implicated Thailand in labor abuses and trafficking of migrant workers, particularly in the fishing, seafood and garment sectors. Thailand was listed as Tier 2 for the three years prior and this decision to downgrade gives important recognition that the government has failed to sufficiently address this problem.
You can read the full statement here.
GLJ-ILRF and NYU School of Law U.S.-Asia Law Institute Release Joint Report on Gender-Based Violence and Harassment in China
On the second anniversary of ILO Convention C190, GLJ-ILRF and NYU’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute published a report examining the Chinese Government’s actions to end gender-based violence and harassment at work. The report analyzes how the Chinese government can concretely align its domestic law and practice with ILO Convention C190 and what Chinese employers, Chinese workers’ organizations and global brands can do to address gender-based violence and harassment in the Chinese workplace.
The full report is available here.
GLJ-IRLF Sends Letter in Support of SITRATALSA Trade Union Leader Santos Celestina Carranza Ruiz
GLJ-ILRF sent a letter asking the Ministry of Labor of Peru to intervene in the unjust firing and persecution of Peruvian trade union leader Santos Celestina Carranza Ruiz by the agribusiness company Tal SA. The company has accused workers of criminal and labor rights offenses in order to destroy the union and intimidate workers from speaking out and defending workers’ rights. GLJ-ILRF is demanding the reinstatement of SITRATALSA Trade Union Leader Santos Celestina Carranza Rui and asking TalSa to respect the rights of workers to organize and for the anti-union culture that exists at TalSA to stop.
You can read the letter here.
The Seafood Working Group Calls on the U.S. State Department to Urge Thailand to Withdraw Proposed Law that Threatens Organizations Combatting Human Trafficking
In June, GLJ-ILRF together with dozens of worker rights and human rights organizations participating in the Seafood Working Group released a letter expressing deep concern regarding Thailand’s draft Act on the Operation of Not-for-Profit Organizations. If enacted, this Council of State drafted law would pose serious threats to the functioning of Thai civil society as well as have a deeply damaging impact on both donors and international non-governmental organizations working to address human trafficking and improve labor rights in Thailand. For this reason, the signatories called on the U.S. State Department, and in particular the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, to strongly advocate for the Thai government to withdraw this bill.
You can read the letter here.
GLJ-ILRF in the News
Human Rights Groups Decry Taiwan’s Tier 1 Human Trafficking Rating by U.S.
UNDERCURRENT NEWS | JUL 8, 2021
Thailand Disappointed with Downgrade in Latest US Human Trafficking Report
SEAFOOD SOURCE | JUL 7, 2021
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Monitors Imports to Curb Products Made by Forced Labor
THE WORLD/PRI | APR 30, 2021
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