Politics of Poverty
Ideas and analysis from Oxfam America's policy experts
Politics of Poverty
Amazon sends clear signal to workers: Unionize at your own risk
Amazon's closure of warehouses in Quebec, eliminating over 1,700 jobs, signals a clear message: unionize at your own risk. This move reflects the company's ongoing effort to prevent unionization, highlighting the need for Amazon to put people before profits and respect workers' right to organize and ensure decent working conditions.
Politics of Poverty
Trump on Gender: The Dehumanization is the Point
Trump’s Administration is aggressively undermining gender rights: denying the existence of trans individuals, rolling back their hard-earned human rights, and misusing the language and efforts of the gender equality and women’s rights movements to the detriment of women and girls. The result is that we are all worse off for it.
Politics of Poverty
Fishy business: what next after the MSC Seafood Standard says it’s not a human rights solution?
Millions of people work in the seafood sector, a highly dangerous industry. New evidence has shown human rights abuses in seafood certified by the Marine Stewardship Council, the primary seafood certification organization. In response, MSC has committed to not being a human rights solution. However, it still needs to properly communicate this and support remediation of workers. Further, it’s time for businesses to recognize that certification schemes aren’t the answer alone, and to truly adopt human rights due diligence in the seafood sector.