http://www.impacttlimited.com/2010/02/01/human-rights-watch-targets-human-rights-in-the-uae Making what’s good for workers, work for business. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:02:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.impacttlimited.com/2010/02/01/human-rights-watch-targets-human-rights-in-the-uae/comment-page-1#comment-952 Alana Smith Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:00:48 +0000 http://www.impacttlimited.com/?p=634#comment-952 Thanks for sharing Martin. It appears that where the improvement of human rights is the ultimate goal, there is always a tricky balance to mainain. As you describe yourself, acknowledging and supporting the actions that some governments have taken to protect human rights is incredibly important otherwise NGOs are considered one-sided and unnecessarily adversarial, always wanting to pick a fight. Equally important, however, is the importance of continuing to remind governments of their responsibility to protect the human rights of workers in their country whom they are reliant on for economic growth. Migrant workers and those working in low paid jobs whose rights often fail to be protected must be seen as more than economic units of labour but as humans whose rights must be recognised and protected. Keep the updates coming through! Thanks for sharing Martin. It appears that where the improvement of human rights is the ultimate goal, there is always a tricky balance to mainain. As you describe yourself, acknowledging and supporting the actions that some governments have taken to protect human rights is incredibly important otherwise NGOs are considered one-sided and unnecessarily adversarial, always wanting to pick a fight. Equally important, however, is the importance of continuing to remind governments of their responsibility to protect the human rights of workers in their country whom they are reliant on for economic growth. Migrant workers and those working in low paid jobs whose rights often fail to be protected must be seen as more than economic units of labour but as humans whose rights must be recognised and protected. Keep the updates coming through!

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