The Guardian | Modeling industry activist calls for inquiry into how agencies ‘facilitated Epstein’s abuse’ by Edward Helmore in New York
Sara Ziff, founder of Model Alliance, said business leaders need to be hauled before House oversight committee
A top modeling industry activist has called for business leaders to be hauled before lawmakers in Washington to investigate what role modeling agencies may have played in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scandal.
Sara Ziff is founder of the Model Alliance, a non-profit advocacy group calling for fair treatment, labor rights and safe working conditions for fashion industry workers.
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Many Beverly Grove beauty retail employees experience unpaid overtime, off-the-clock work, and missed breaks. California labor laws provide strong protections and allow workers to recover unpaid wages and penalties.
#EmploymentLaw #WageTheft #LaborRights #CaliforniaLaw #RetailWorkers #BeverlyGrove #UnpaidWages
Last year a network of unions and community organizations organized the largest May Day actions in U.S. history: 1,200 actions in all 50 states. This year, the stakes are even higher, and the examples inspiring us are even bolder. The Chicago Teachers Union’s House of Delegates, the union’s governing body, has endorsed a national call for “no school, no work, no shopping” on May 1. Recent boycotts of Disney, Target, and Tesla have shown us that we can shake the pillars of corporate America.
«How the Climate Crisis Impacts Workers and Migrants» webinar
🗓️ Thursday 2nd April 2026
💻 Online (Zoom) 🕑 14:00 UTC
✍️ Inscription: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/N5Pub27fSQy6pynjrUz3DA#/registration
> The past decade has witnessed an unprecedented rise in global temperatures, with each year setting new records as the warmest. This increase—driven by human-induced climate change—results in more frequent and intense droughts, floods, erratic weather patterns, and natural disasters.
> These slow- and sudden-onset weather events make working conditions in already precarious labour sectors, such as agriculture, fishing, or garment production, unbearable. They also destroy many people’s homes and livelihoods, forcing them to undertake risky migrations or accept exploitative jobs, thereby increasing their vulnerability to exploitation and human trafficking.
> To unpack some of these dynamics, the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women is organising a webinar to analyse how the worsening climate crisis is impacting workers and migrants. Speakers will discuss changing working conditions in countries across Asia, Africa, and the Americas, the strategies that communities are implementing to resist resource extraction and exploitation, and what steps governments must take to protect people’s rights and well-being.
I'm almost positively squealing here. ❤️🔥🌲📜💚🔥
One doesn't see this link highlighted often enough. 💖
Ofc it's GAATW noting it. ❤️❤️❤️
As they perfectly put it:
> GAATW sees the phenomenon of human trafficking as intrinsically embedded in the context of migration for the purpose of labour.
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🇧🇷🕚 11:00 Rio de Janeiro
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🇮🇳🕢 19:30 New Delhi
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#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #WorkerRights #LaborRights #LabourRights #Migration #Exploitation #Trafficking #Webinar #GAATW #ATRJournal #April2026
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