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Back to homepageBangladesh: Government Must Support Decent Minimum Wage, and Cease Harassment of Union Rights Supporters 0
Post Views: 7 The ITUC is calling on the Government of Bangladesh to support decent wages and living standards for the country’s workers, particularly in the garments sector, and cease harassment of trade unionists and other worker-rights advocates. Thousands of
Read MoreITUC Calls for UN Summit to endorse Financial Transactions Tax to help fund development and growth 0
Post Views: 5 The ITUC is calling on governments to commit to introducing a financial transactions tax (FTT) at September’s United Nations Development Summit to help tackle global poverty and accelerate action on jobs and climate change. The UN Summit,
Read MoreStory of Ozgur
Post Views: 46 Can you smell this? It is the smell of war. It gets you on the throat, is everywhere”. The young man smells the air and invite us to do the same. War has a smell. Sour, intense.
Read MoreOlmert and the Jackals 0
Post Views: 4 When the Kettle Calls the Pot Black … I CANNOT say that I ever liked Ehud Olmert. But now I almost feel sorry for him. It is not pleasant to see how they pounce on him, like
Read MoreEl niño soldado ante una corte militar 0
Post Views: 29 Khadr escuchó atentamente los argumentos de su caso. Imagen: AFPMAR KHADR TENIA 15 AñOS CUANDO FUE CAPTURADO Y LLEVADO A GUANTANAMO El caso es visto como una prueba del compromiso de Obama por terminar con las
Read MoreSiria se acerca a América Latina 0
Post Views: 4 La gira del presidente Bachar Al Assad por Venezuela, Cuba, Brasil y Argentina, la primera de un jefe de Estado sirio en la región, se inscribe en la profundización de los vínculos entre América Latina y Medio
Read MoreFears of al–Qaida return in Iraq as US–backed fighters defect 0
Post Views: 5 American allies the Sons of Iraq being offered more money by al–Qaida to switch sides Al-Qaida is attempting to make a comeback in Iraq by enticing scores of former Sunni allies to rejoin the terrorist group
Read MoreLa corrupción de la democracia 0
Post Views: 3 El “caso Bettencourt” que zarandea Francia con su vendaval de arrestos, odios familiares, cheques ocultos, grabaciones furtivas, fechorías fiscales y donaciones ilegales al partido del Presidente Nicolas Sarkozy, está hundiendo el país en una profunda crisis moral.
Read MoreIsrael/Gaza: Wartime Inquiries Fall Short 0
Post Views: 2 Governments and UN Should Press for Justice (New York) – Israeli military investigations into the Gaza war have brought some results over the past 18 months but fall far short of addressing the widespread and serious allegations
Read MoreIran: Free Baha’i Leaders 0
Post Views: 2 Reports Say 7 Baha’i Leaders Have Been Sentenced to 20 Years Each (New York) – The Iranian judiciary should set aside any judgments issued in closed judicial proceedings against seven Baha’i leaders and release them immediately given
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