Full Coverage: Labour
November 2007
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30.11.2007
More...Related topics/regions: [Aid] [Education] [Energy] [Fisheries] [Food] [Intermediate technology] [International cooperation] [Land] [Population] [Poverty] [Social exclusion] [Tourism] [Transport] [Volunteering] [Youth] [Environment] [Animals] [Atmosphere] [Climate change] [Conservation] [Environmental activism] [Forests] [Oceans] [Pollution] [Renewable energy] [Rivers] [Soils] [Health] [Disease] [Infant mortality] [Malaria] [Nutrition/malnutrition] [Human rights] [Civil rights] [Gender] [Indigenous rights] [Sexuality] [Culture] [ICT] [Media] [Globalisation] [Governance] [Conflict] [Conflict resolution] [Peace] Image: Waves of Change
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29.11.2007
Meet survivors Lisa and Resma in a photo essay by UNICEF – two nine-year olds in Barisal district, who are working hard with their families to recover what they lost in the devastating storm.
more...Related topics/regions: [Bangladesh] [South Asia] [Children] [Poverty] Image: Lisa recalls the cyclone © UNICEF
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27.11.2007
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in his ‘moment of enlightenment’ has described the act of manual scavenging a spiritual experience for dalits! In India, more than one million people are engaged in this inhuman and degrading form of work, despite a law that prohibits either employment of scavengers or construction of dry latrines.
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21.11.2007
NEW YORK, Nov 21 (OneWorld) - Labor rights activists in the United States are trying to organize a nationwide campaign to push Congress to oppose the Bush administration's plans to promote new free trade agreements.
more...From: OneWorld US Related topics/regions: [United States] [Trade] [Geopolitics] Image: Anti-NAFTA Campaigners: 'Free Trade = Hunger' © Americas Policy Program
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17.11.2007
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 17 (OneWorld) - A coalition of grassroots organizations will lead worldwide demonstrations against Wal-Mart and other so-called "big box" retail stores today.
more...From: OneWorld US Related topics/regions: [Business] [Consumption] [Corporations] [Environment] [Climate change] Image: People in Mexico protest outside of a "Big Box" retailer. © Global Exchange
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14.11.2007
Watch Gudia, an eight-year-old Indian girl in Jammu, scavenging engine oil at an auto workshop. A slide show by Reuters.
more...Related topics/regions: [India] [South Asia] [Children] [Poverty] [Health] Image: The hand of Gudia, oil scavenger/ Photo credit: Reuters
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05.11.2007
Editor Sumi Krishna provides a historical perspective on womenÂ’s citizenship and livelihood rights in her book WomenÂ’s Livelihood Rights: Recasting Citizenship for Development. The various articles capture stories of struggle and success from the field in the context of economic rights to natural resource based livelihoods even while celebrating the collective power of women. OneWorld South Asia speaks to her about the book.
more...From: OneWorld South Asia Related topics/regions: [India] [South Asia] [Development] [Poverty] [Gender] [Governance] |
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