Human Rights

Traidlinks believes that decent employment is a Human Right

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 23

1. Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and
favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
2. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
3. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
4. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

60 years after this declaration, the Global Employment Trends Report 2008 states that five out of 10 people in the world are in vulnerable employment. Also, it is estimated that 487 million workers—or 16.4% of all workers — still don’t earn enough to lift themselves and their families above the US$1 per person, per day poverty line while 1.3 billion workers – 43.5% – still live below the US$2 per day threshold.

Traidlinks believes that employment is a key link between economic growth and poverty reduction. By supporting and promoting the development of the SME sector in Uganda, Traidlinks is contributing to the improvement in employment opportunities and long-term, sustainable development of the private sector in Uganda.

The UN Millennium Project Report identifies the important role the private sector has to play in achieving the MDGs. The report identifies private businesses as important partners in achieving the Goals, stating that ‘Long-term poverty reduction in developing countries will not happen without sustained economic growth, which requires a vibrant private sector’, this being the vehicle for job creation and long-term income growth.

Traidlinks’ Skills Exchange Programme has facilitated significant progress with our Partners in the area of employment.

“Productive and remunerative employment can help ensure that poor people share in the benefits of economic growth. Employment is not only a means of livelihood, but it is also a tool for participation; productive and remunerative employment can enhance self-respect and human dignity.”
http://www.undp.org/poverty/