Yesterday I attended the Patsy Robertson Memorial Lecture at the The Commonwealth Secretariat as a member of the alumni association. The focus was on climate change, international development & cooperation. It raised lots of questions for me as an observer. There was optimism, despite the parlous state of multilateral cooperation Continue Reading
Human Rights
Articles on labour, gender, human rights and more
Gender and Governance of Global Value Chains
Co-authored article in International Labour Review with Prof Stephanie Barrientos, Manchester University and Dr Lara Bianchi, Nottingham University. I was delighted to hear that UN PRME nominated the paper in two of their “Best 10 – Lists 2022”. It made second place to the “Best Ten Works to Read on Continue Reading
Is the ILO’s governance fit for purpose in the 21st Century?
My latest article published May 2022 – SAGE Journal – Global Social Policy https://doi.org/10.1177/14680181221094952
2020 has been quite a year!
The coronavirus pandemic has dominated the year for the whole world in 2020. For those of us that have been fighting for social justice, it has exposed the things that were never quite as visible as they ought to have been. We saw in plain sight the widening gulf of Continue Reading
Three Ways to Ensure Safer Workplaces after Lockdown
Blog for the British Retail Consortium
Does Organised Crime Drive Modern Slavery, or Is It Something Else?
This article appeared on Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) website 22 March 2018. Modern slavery is often linked to organised crime. We assume the problem is driven by criminal gangs that make huge profits from trafficking and exploiting vulnerable children, women and men into forced labour, sexual exploitation or other Continue Reading