
ITUC Collective Voices
EP03 (EN) The ITUC Global Rights Index 2026 – rights, rankings & reality
What is the worst country in the world for working people? And how do we even measure that? In our new episode, we sit down with ITUC legal researcher Loredana Carta – who has spent the past decade building the Global Rights Index – to go through the receipts on workers' rights worldwide.The Index covers 170 countries and tracks violations of the rights to organise, strike, and bargain collectively. From the 10 worst countries to why the right to strike is under attack almost everywhere – this is the data that holds governments accountable.Read the full report: https://www.ituc-csi.org/global-rights-index?lang=en

