A special and final session of our Seed Corn Research project funded by Natural England took place on #EarthDay2024🌍 ➡️Visit our blog to see how we celebrated it at the Milton Piece Allotment in #Portsmouth! wbi.org.uk/2024/04/22/wbi…

Coming tomorrow! #FoodwithFriends is back featuring a talk on diabetes facilitated by Portsmouth Hospitals University NHST. We look forward to feeding our minds and bodies in a friendly space! See you there👋

🌟Food with Friends returned this month with a talk from Clare Kavanagh on behalf of Diabetes UK. Healthy food doesn’t only taste great, it also lowers the risk of health conditions such as Type 2 diabetes. Proud to say our menu received Clare's ✅ wbi.org.uk/2024/04/26/foo…

Thank you for highlighting our work Action Hampshire!😍 & thanks to the Milton Piece Allotment team run by Portsmouth City Council and Natural England for this special collaboration with our group of #migrant volunteers, taking part in climate research and climate conservation🌱👏

🗣️WBI & colleagues from the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) gave a talk on the ‘Growing Vulnerability and Risks of Exploitation of Burmese Workers in Thailand,’ hosted by Generation Now Asia (GNA) 亞洲鬧. Yuchi Hsieh wrote an insightful article about it➡️thenewslens.com/article/201558 wbi.org.uk/2024/05/03/wbi…

Wrapping up our research project on minority participation in community gardening in #Portsmouth w/ a calculation on the #carbonfootprint of pizza vs dahl (yummy lentils)! Guess which is better for the 🌍? Lovely eating together🍲 w/ participants & sharing stories of home 🏡

Via our Seed Corn Project w/ Natural England, we did an interview-series about the migrant experience of #community gardening. Full report coming soon! “Back home, I used to grow flowers. It’s nice to be able to do this again, in a new country."🌼🌺 wbi.org.uk/2024/05/07/wbi…

WBI will host a Digital Privacy workshop facilitated in partnership with City of Portsmouth College💡 The workshop is part of our Employment Support for Migrants and will look at preventing #data misuse for profit or discrimination. #mgirantsupport #techliteracy

Food with Friends May coming 🔜 This will be a special edition facilitated by Sophie Cartledge ~ Hormones on the blink - an education& advocacy provider, specialised in addressing the often overlooked & misunderstood aspects of menopause & hormone health both in the workplace & local communities🌸

A paper by Bonny Ling published in the De Gruyter Brill Journal of Innovation in the Social Sciences highlights the nexus between #business, #humanrights & protection for displaced individuals, making recommendations for Taiwan's next NAP. Read more⬇️ wbi.org.uk/2024/05/14/wbi…

I am speaking at the Global Forum for #ResponsibleRecruitment in London - for the fair & ethical recruitment of migrant workers worldwide. Will address the challenges in #Taiwan on a Panel on Day 2. Hope to see you there or online. Register 👉 gfrr.org #GFRR Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB)

Yesterday was the 12th #InternationalDomesticWorkersDay since changes to the UK's Overseas Domestic Worker visa stopped migrant domestic workers accessing workers rights We look at the data shared by Kalayaan & why rights need to be reinstated & built on labourexploitation.org/news/before-an…

Congratulations Aspex Portsmouth, Gallery of Sanctuary in Portsmouth!! 🎉 We are so excited to see this national recognisation of your large welcoming 💟for everyone to find inspiration & solace in the arts 🖼️🎨

More on the book on Work Better Innovations's blog post. It has been wonderful to work with my inspirational co-author Bonny Ling (and spend this world refugee day together!) and the amazing editors Polina Ivanova & Lara Momesso. This book is open access! wbi.org.uk/2024/06/19/see…

Together w Southeast and East Asian Centre - SEEAC & Better Engagement Between East and Southeast Asia, we mark #WorldRefugeeDay & announce book on refugee protection in Japan & Taiwan 🇯🇵🇹🇼 w a chapter by ⤵️ Mariko Hayashi / 林茉里子 & Bonny Ling. Vol edited by Momesso & Ivanova & carries our hopes for better policy to protect all seeking safety & dignity.

Excited to see this clip on 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 STV News featuring pilot to protect migrant workers in UK #fishing, w Nora Böggemann FLEX explaining factors driving risks of exploitation for migrant fishers: 📌 most on transit visas 📌 work in remote areas 📌 lack of regulatory oversight...

Speaking today in London on #ResponsibleRecruitment & regional complexities. Change: workers are not indebted prior to starting their 1st day of work abroad & bearing costs of their own recruitment. Speaking on #Taiwan. Livestream available Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB). Info at gfrr.org

Join us now in the panel Responsible Recruitment: Understanding and Managing Regional Complexities on the second day of the Global Forum for Responsible Recruitment. Our Director Executive Bonny Ling will be articulating Taiwan situations, difficulties and prospects. #GFRR2024