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

21st September 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 September 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 September 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 August 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 July 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 July 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 July 2021 Mzi Velapi 0

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

The women of Sudan are pushing for a feminist agenda

12th July 2021 Equal Times 0

On 8 April 2021, hundreds of women gathered in Khartoum to rally against domestic and gender-based violence in Sudan. In what has been described as […]

Restaurant workers in the US call for $15 an hour minimum wage

7th July 2021 Grace Carney 0

Despite the promise by President Biden that the minimum wage will be gradually increased to $15 an hour by 2025, workers feel that it has to be done now.

“Poor people have a right to eat well”: towards quality, locally grown food aid in France

23rd June 2021 Equal Times 0

On the shelves of the Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy branch of the national food bank network, Banque Alimentaire (Food Bank), located in a wholesale market in the eastern […]

In the United States, the digital giants are baring their claws against emerging support for trade unions

17th June 2021 Equal Times 0

A little grey letterbox could lead to huge changes for employees at Amazon’s Bessemer warehouse in Alabama. On 9 April, workers at the site overwhelmingly voted […]

Forty years on, the world is edging closer to eradicating HIV

14th June 2021 Equal Times 0

The photo resembles many others that have been flooding the internet for months. A young man, leaning back in a chair, waits with the sleeve […]

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