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Iran's President Is in Europe to Sign Some Million-Dollar Deals, Despite Rights Concerns
A week after sanctions were lifted against Iran, President Hassan Rouhani is hoping European nations will close their eyes to his country's human rights record in favor of making money.
Thailand Wants to Throw This British Rights Activist in Jail for Fighting Exploitation
Andy Hall was indicted by a Bangkok court on Monday on charges relating to a 2013 report exposing severe working conditions in Thai factories. He faces seven years behind bars.
Will Time Off For Periods Just Push Chinese Women Further Out of the Workplace?
The proposed regulation — which would allow women a day of paid leave per month for serious cramps — is actually bad news for already dire women's rights in China, say experts.
The Big Chicken Industry Really Treats Its Workers Like Shit
America's growing demand for cheap poultry is squeezing the industry, and the people who work long shifts at breakneck speed for low pay, often with little compensation for injuries incurred on the job, are bearing the brunt of it.
Conditions Are Not Improving for Qatar's Desperate World Cup Workers
Amnesty International says despite promises made by Qatar, nothing has changed for the country's migrant workers who experience slave-like conditions in the world's wealthiest country.
The MLS Labor Battle Is Not Going to Be Pretty
As the MLS and its players union head to the negotiating table, signs abound that both sides are in for a long, heated process.
Faces of the Fast Food Movement
Meet some of the faces of the Fast Food Workers Convention as they fight for a $15 an hour minimum wage.
Birth of a Union: Nationwide Fast Food Workers Convention Is Underway
More than 1,300 workers from all over the country traveled to Illinois this weekend for a nationwide fast food workers convention.
The War on Sex Workers Escalates with FBI Shutdown of MyRedBook
Logging into Facebook on June 26, I was immediately confronted by dozens of screenshots of a notice with FBI and IRS seals indicating that MyRedBook, a free advertising network for escorts, had been seized.
The Human Cost of Your Mother's Day Flowers
This Mother's Day weekend, Americans will purchase more than $2 billion worth of flowers. Almost 80 percent of those come from Colombia, a country where women toil under dangerous conditions in vast farms and factories to cut roses for export. Maybe...
Permanently Temporary: The Truth About Temp Labor
VICE News traveled across the country, scouring warehouses, temp agencies, and temp towns in search of the people who make our world of same-day delivery possible.
Permanently Temporary: The Truth About Temp Labor
VICE News traveled across the country, scouring warehouses, temp agencies, and temp towns in search of the people who make our world of same-day delivery possible.