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From the boardroom to the factory floor, trade union women say “nothing about us without us”

23rd November 2018 Equal Times 0

Last week, Equal Times published the Count Us In! Women leading change special report. Featuring case studies and interviews with women trade unionists from Angola […]

Why, even with more access to toilets, women in a Kenyan slum avoid them

22nd November 2018 Samantha Winter 0

About 2.3 billion people around the world lack access to basic toilets. This leads to poor sanitation and about 280,000 people per year die as […]

Arrest of ZCTU leaders highlights continued repression of trade unions in Zimbabwe

20th November 2018 Equal Times 0

On 16 November 2018, seven members of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) – including ZCTU Secretary General Japhet Moyo and ZCTU President Peter […]

Domestic workers want better working and living conditions

20th November 2018 Mzi Velapi 0

The International Domestic Worker Federation concluded its congress in Cape Town on Monday, 19 November.

Domestic worker unions urged to organise migrant workers

17th November 2018 Mzi Velapi 0

Domestic worker unions and organisations have gathered in Cape Town to talk about improving the working and living conditions of domestic workers around the world.

France’s mental health professionals are on the verge of a breakdown

7th November 2018 Equal Times 0

With a megaphone in one hand and leaflets in the other, Isabelle Bouligaud walks back and forth in front of a crowd of nurses and […]

Bolsonaro’s victory is likely to see Brazil scale down Africa interests

5th November 2018 Amy Niang 0

His first son is a senator for the state of Rio do Janeiro. His second son a municipal councillor in the city of Rio, and […]

Brazil’s public universities are in crisis

31st October 2018 Equal Times 0

It’s the night of 2 September 2018 and Brazil’s National Museum is burning. Jean-François Evran, professor of anthropology at the Federal University of Rio de […]

Colombia is the deadliest country for human rights defenders, with one activist killed every three days since the 2016 peace agreement

18th October 2018 Equal Times 0

The assassination of human rights defenders is a plague that has been spreading in recent years. Latin America is the worst affected: 85 per cent […]

Congolese trade unionist Joséphine Shimbi Umba: “We say ’protect the workers’, but which workers are we talking about if only 2.5 per cent have formal jobs?”

10th October 2018 Equal Times 0

Joséphine Shimbi Umba is vice president of gender, the informal economy and finance at the Trade Union Confederation of Congo (La Confédération Syndicale du Congo, […]

As Kerala succumbs to the sea, the Indian government ramps up coastal construction

8th October 2018 Equal Times 0

Between June and August this year, the southern Indian state of Kerala experienced the heaviest rainfall it had seen in over a century. More than […]

Women and children bear the brunt of Cameroon’s conflict

3rd October 2018 Equal Times 0

On 7 September 2018, hundreds of women rallied in a stadium in the city of Bamenda, in the north-west region of Cameroon to protest multiple […]

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