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Period poverty ruins education for girls in rural Zimbabwe

2nd Aug 2022 Dylan Murambgi 0

A recent survey revealed that the use of old clothes, leaves and cow dung instead of sanitary ware is prevalent among rural girls in Zimbabwe.

Mining affected communities discuss UN treaty

29th Jul 2022 Ramatamo Sehoai 0

Mining affected communities met to contribute to the third draft of a legally binding treaty against human rights violations by businesses, which will be presented later this year at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Chile: A bright, new world for women after new left wins the presidency

3rd Feb 2022 Lorena Carrasco Nunez Jeremy Daphne 0

The authors argue that It was in fact young women from left organisations who brought the vote out for Boric to defeat the right-wing candidate in the second round of voting.

2021 – The wrap

15th Dec 2021 Mzi Velapi 0

These are some of the stories we brought you in 2021. Expect more to follow in 2022.

Brazil’s labour justice system is battling with growing rights violations

6th Dec 2021 Equal Times 0

“It was chaos,” says Nilzete, a nurse at Souza Aguiar Hospital in Rio de Janeiro. Twenty-three years of experience had not prepared her for this. […]

For India’s stigmatised and exploited sanitation workers, the pandemic has only made conditions worse

21st Sep 2021 Equal Times 0

It is barely 5am and Borun Haari* is already out on the streets of Kolkata, pushing his waste handcart. A door-to-door garbage collector and street […]

Deep-sea mining: civil society sounds the alarm on the threat posed to biodiversity

20th Sep 2021 Equal Times 0

Sometimes referred to as the ‘oil of the 21st century’, metals such as nickel, cobalt and manganese are used to make the batteries that power […]

Zimbabwe launches National Labour Migration Policy to help protect migrant workers

14th Sep 2021 Equal Times 0

Although there is no reliable data, with an estimated 4 to 7 million people living outside of the country, Zimbabwe has one of the highest […]

In Africa, young people are the voice of environmental protection

24th Aug 2021 Equal Times 0

It’s a July morning and 29-year-old Murhula Zigabe is visiting what he calls “the base”, a production unit for making the fuel briquettes that he […]

The shrinking space for journalistic rights and freedoms in Palestine

28th Jul 2021 Equal Times 0

“It was a Saturday, and the street was full of demonstrators. We were filming the events from a corner,” recalls Shatha Hammad, a 28-year-old Palestinian […]

Clinical waste collectors – unprotected, untrained, underpaid and undervalued

21st Jul 2021 Equal Times 0

It was an accident that could have been avoided. While a waste collector was incinerating infectious waste at Connaught Hospital, Sierra Leone’s principal adult referral […]

PUDEMO calls for targeted sanctions against Mswati III

13th Jul 2021 Mzi Velapi 0

Pudemo calls on international solidarity groups to support economic sanctions against Mswati III.

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