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Lesotho / USA 1,500 health workers sent home after US aid suspended [GroundUp] 11-02-2025

Lesotho United Textile Employees Union holds Elective Congress [Peoples Dispatch] 10-08-2024

Lesotho Enhancing safety and inclusiveness at work [IndustriALL] 30-06-2024

Lesotho Health workers not backing down on strike [Lesotho Times] 04-06-2024

Lesotho Union takes Adient Automotive to labour tribunal for union busting [IndustriALL] 19-04-2024

Lesotho Beyond the sparkle: advancing workers' rights in the diamond sector [IndustriALL] 23-02-2024

Lesotho / Global Multi-stakeholders gather to learn lessons from Lesotho on tackling gender-based violence and harassment at work [Equal Times] 18-09-2023

Lesotho / South Africa Silicosis: the astonishing story of the driller from Lesotho [GroundUp] 15-09-2023

Lesotho / Africa Global summit praises Lesotho GBVH agreements [IndustriALL] 03-08-2023

Lesotho Investigative radio journalist shot dead [IFJ] 18-05-2023

Other news

Fight over fish in Katse Dam 2025-04-22 [GroundUp]

USA Health Minister confident Lesotho can manage without US funding, but jobs are already being lost 2025-03-26 [GroundUp]

USA 1,500 health workers sent home after US aid suspended 2025-02-11 [GroundUp]

Lesotho Police launch manhunt for gang leader of illegal mine 2025-02-10 [Daily Maverick]

IDUL disowns verbal abuse allegations at Presitex 2024-12-31 [Lesotho Times]

Govt accused of driving Basotho into illegal mining 2024-12-04 [Lesotho Times]

Ex-miners claim they are being short-changed in compensation process 2024-09-19 [Lesotho Times]

Job losses begin at diamond mines 2024-09-11 [Lesotho Times]

Mining industry in trouble 2024-09-02 [Lesotho Times]

Lesotho SAFTU appalled by sex trafficking of Basotho women 2024-08-23 [SAFTU]

United Textile Employees Union holds Elective Congress 2024-08-10 [Peoples Dispatch]

Village health workers unhappy with pay 2024-07-22 [Lesotho Times]

Enhancing safety and inclusiveness at work 2024-06-30 [IndustriALL]

Nearly 16,000 jobs lost in the textile sector 2024-06-17 [Lesotho Times]

Gvt to meet with striking health workers -DPM 2024-06-11 [Lesotho Times]

Health workers not backing down on strike 2024-06-04 [Lesotho Times]

Female sex workers continue facing discrimination 2024-05-21 [Lesotho Times]

Union vows to fight against discrimination of women 2024-05-06 [May Day]

Female factory workers in outcry over unpaid maternity leave 2024-04-28 [Lesotho Times]

Lesotho miners remembered 2024-04-26 [IndustriALL]

Union takes Adient Automotive to labour tribunal for union busting 2024-04-19 [IndustriALL]

Beyond the sparkle: advancing workers' rights in the diamond sector 2024-02-23 [IndustriALL]

Lesotho Eastern Cape Implats disaster another mining tragedy for people of Eastern Cape and Lesotho 2023-12-07 [Daily Maverick]

Global Multi-stakeholders gather to learn lessons from Lesotho on tackling gender-based violence and harassment at work 2023-09-18 [Equal Times]

South Africa Silicosis: the astonishing story of the driller from Lesotho 2023-09-15 [GroundUp]

Africa Global summit praises Lesotho GBVH agreements 2023-08-03 [IndustriALL]

Lesotho COSATU President Zingiswa Losi – Opening Remarks 2023-07-28 [COSATU]

Prominant journalist shot and killed 2023-06-07 [Lesotho Times]

Investigative radio journalist shot dead 2023-05-18 [IFJ]

Lesotho ratifies three ILO Conventions 2023-03-18 [ILO]

More fired civil servants sue government 2023-02-25 [Lesotho Times]

South Africa NUMSA in solidarity with local workers 2023-02-15 [Africa Press]

Lesotho Garment Workers stand Up to Gender Violence at Work, Transform Unions, Communities For more info 2022-12-05 [Solidarity Center]

MMB employees down tools 2022-11-29 [Lesotho Times]

3000 factory workers sent packing 2022-11-08 [Lesotho Times]

Female taxi drivers speak out 2022-09-25 [Lesotho Times]

Polihali strike suspended 2022-08-03 [Lesotho Times]

Road construction faces more labour disruptions 2022-07-08 [Lesotho Times]

Mokhothu promises textile industry reforms 2022-06-18 [Lesotho Times]

IMF blow for civil servants 2022-06-15 [Lesotho Times]

Midwives seek approval to conduct home deliveries 2022-05-19 [Lesotho Times]

Fresh textiles job carnage looms 2022-04-10 [Lesotho Times]

Civil servants, govt in talks over salary dispute 2022-04-08 [Lesotho Times]

COLEPE's court bid flops 2022-03-31 [Newsday]

Civil servants strike looms 2022-03-31 [Lesotho Times]

China Geo workers suspend strike 2022-03-27 [Lesotho Times]

Factory workers, employers deadlocked on wage hike 2022-03-26 [Lesotho Times]

The Construction, Mining, Quarrying and allied workers union-CMQ has petitioned the labour commissioner in the Labour and Employment Ministry to intervene in a dispute between China Geo Engineering-CGC and 20 of its workers 2022-03-25 [PCFM]

Police, teachers, nurses gang up on govt 2022-03-07 [Lesotho Times]

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