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2021 – The wrap

15th December 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 December 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 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 […]

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