INTERNATIONAL: Overseas labour rights get $19m US funding
11 October 2012
The US Department of Labor has allocated $18.8m (£11.7m) in funding across four programmes working in a number of different geographies to improve workers’ rights and reduce illegitimate labour.
Thu, 11 Oct 2012
The US Department of Labor has allocated $18.8m (£11.7m) in funding across four programmes working in a number of different geographies to improve workers’ rights and reduce illegitimate labour.
The largest grant of $10m will be allocated projects aiming to reduce child labour in Ecuador and Panama by providing education to children, as a well as services that decrease household dependence on children’s earning.
Half that amount is available for similar projects in South Asia and/or South-East Asia. Further smaller grants of $2.2m and $1.5m will be available to companies looking to work respectively to strengthen worker organisations in Haiti and Peru, especially in the textile and export sectors, and improve general public and worker awareness of labour rights in Colombia.
The US Department of Labor has allocated $18.8m (£11.7m) in funding across four programmes working in a number of different geographies to improve workers’ rights and reduce illegitimate labour.
The largest grant of $10m will be allocated projects aiming to reduce child labour in Ecuador and Panama by providing education to children, as a well as services that decrease household dependence on children’s earning.
Half that amount is available for similar projects in South Asia and/or South-East Asia. Further smaller grants of $2.2m and $1.5m will be available to companies looking to work respectively to strengthen worker organisations in Haiti and Peru, especially in the textile and export sectors, and improve general public and worker awareness of labour rights in Colombia.
