OSH Rights Newsletter Issue 71

April — June 2026 Issue

Contents

ANROEV Network Marks World Environment Day 2026 with Action from Dhaka to Bhopal [Front Page]
ANROEV Statement on World Environment Day 2026 [p. 2]
ANROEV Announces 2026 Small Grants Recipients for EHS and Workers’ Rights Initiatives [p. 3]
Remember the Dead, Fight for the Living: ANROEV Marks IWMD 2026 Across Asia [p. 4]
Unite, Organize, Mobilize: ANROEV's Labor Day Call Across Asia [p. 5]
Civil Society Organisations and Trade Union Federations call on Urgent Action to Protect Garment Workers’ Safety in Cambodia [p. 8]
ANROEV Calls for Urgent Action and Protection of Workers' Right to Health and Safety in Cambodia After Fatal Transport Accidents Kill 14 Garment Workers [p. 9]
ANROEV's Statement on the 6th Anniversary of the LG Vizag Gas Leak [p. 10]
Six Years On: Communities in India and South Korea Mark the LG Vizag Gas Leak with Calls for Justice and Care [p. 11]
“Why can’t a child receive workers’ compensation when their father was exposed to hazardous substances at work and the child became ill?” Forum on ‘Miscarriage, Stillbirth, Paternal Occupational Disease in Children, and Discrimination by Time of Birth’ held at the National Assembly on the 19th (By Kim Sam-seok, Originally published on News 365 (June 19, 2026) [p. 13]
Overview of OSH Incidents and Related Issues in China – April to June 2026 [p. 16]
At Least 90 Killed in Shanxi Coal Mine Explosion, China's Deadliest Mining Disaster in Nearly Two Decades [p. 17]
367 Workplace Accidents in Three Months: Inside ANROEV's Second Asia OSH Map Sharing Session [p. 18]
Nine-story Hotel Under Construction Collapses in Philippines, Kills 30 [p. 20]
OEHS Leaders’ Viewpoint: Covered by High-Tech: The Real Cost of Korea’s Semiconductor Boom by Kwon Young-eun (SHARPS South Korea) [p. 22]
Youth Voice: Exposed but Unaware: Beyond Smokey Mountain’s Transformation by Ken Sevilla and Alexah Josh Vicente Originally published in IOHSAD’s Website [p. 24]
Heatwaves and Worker Safety: Urgent Need to Protect the Health of Construction Workers by Vipul Pandya (ADHAR, India) [p. 28]
Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Among Sculptural Metal Workers in Lalitpur Nepal; A Cross-Sectional Assessment of Hearing Status and Workplace Exposure by Ram Charitra Sah & Lauren Gibbons Jensen (CEPHED) [p. 30]
PAX SILICA: Zoning for War and Plunder by Eleanor De Guzman, Good Electronics [p. 32]
ILO Adopts First Global Convention on Decent Work in the Platform Economy [p. 34]
ILO’s new treaty on platform workers should be signed by PH by Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR) [p. 35]
BIEN Welcomes Historic ILO Convention on Platform Work, Calls for Swift Ratification in the Philippines by BPO Industry Employees Network (BIEN) [p. 36]
EARTH Thailand Leads Investigation into Industrial Pollution in Saraburi by Ecological Alert and Recovery – Thailand (EARTH) [p. 38]
Network Updates [pp. 40-50]