π At yesterday's #SchmidtLecture we launched the latest issue of our #BKHSmagazine! π₯³
π It presents concrete ideas & aims to develop tangible, multifaceted ideas about what needs to be done & who must act to remake globalisation for the better.
Download the BKHS Magazine here: https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/bkhs-magazine-remaking-globalisation
Today is the International Labour Organization's (ILO) World Day for Safety and Health at Work. In her text "A voice for workers", Gisela Burkhardt impressively summarises how covid made the already bad situation for workers even worse and how it is still a taboo to speak up against gender-based violence.
Read the full article from our last #BKHSMagazine, which we would especially like to recommend to you on the occasion of #WorldDayForSafetyAndHealthAtWork.
ππ https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/aktuelles/detail/a-voice-for-workers
Around 60 to 75 million people work in the textile and garment industry worldwide. The majority of them are women who work and live in strongly patriarchal societies such as Bangladesh or India. Supported by trade unions, only few of them dare to speak up against labour rights violations. As spaces for organised labour continue to shrink, freedom of expression is more and more trampled down.
Progress for all, not for the few!
βInstead of focusing on technical obstacles, we need to strengthen our core values of freedom, justice and solidarity. Speaking up now to protect people could make the digital world more advantageous for all, instead of just a few.β
My contribution to the #BKHSMagazine.
BK-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung
Henning Tillmann