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Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. IN THE SHADOW OF TAIWAN’S CORONAVIRUS SUCCESS, HOSTESSES For the last five years Chi Yang* has been working as a hostess in a club on Linsen North Road in Taipei's popular red-light district. There, the 25-year-old and her colleagues entertain customers who pay them to sing, drink and dine with them in private rooms, where sexual intercourse is illegal but not unheard of. Although Yang works part-time to supplement her degree in fashion design, she THE LONG FIGHT FOR JUSTICE FOR SOUTH KOREA’S DEADLY When Ahn Seong-woo, 38, bought a bottle of liquid steriliser for his humidifier at home in 2010, he thought he was creating a healthy environment for his wife, who was pregnant with their second child. He didn't expect that decision to bring tragedy. Ahn's wife developed a sudden breathing problem in February 2011. She was taken to a hospital but the diagnosis was grim: her lungs had been ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND JOURNALISM: A RACE WITHSEE MORE ONEQUALTIMES.ORG
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AFTER THE REVOLUTION IN EGYPT, WHAT HAS CHANGED FOR THE The revolution in Egypt came as a lifeline for many workers who endured more than 30 years of a tyrannical regime and a decline in economic and social conditions. Egyptian workers played a major role in the revolution in an attempt to fight against the constant violation of core labour rights and to improve their poor economic conditions, after the closure of many factories. Since the 1990s CONTRE LA PRÉCARITÉ DE L’EMPLOI, IL EXISTE BIEN DETRANSLATE THISPAGE
Depuis l'apparition des plateformes numériques (Uber, Deliveroo, Glovo) dans notre société, les syndicats mènent un combat long et difficile pour appréhender cette réalité et défendre les droits des personnes qui travaillent pour ces plateformes. Par exemple, dans notre syndicat, UGT, nous avions besoin d'un nouvel outil syndical et d'une nouvelle approche du problème. Selon TRABAJO INFORMAL EN TIEMPOS DE PANDEMIA: CUANDO …TRANSLATE THIS PAGE Unos 2.000 millones de personas en el planeta viven de la economía informal, lo que supone un 61% del total de la población empleada en el mundo, según la Organización Internacional del Trabajo. Sus trabajos son en buena medida esenciales, desde recoger la basura a vender en la calle alimentos y productos básicos asequibles, pasando por las tareas domésticas y de cuidados. Sin embargo JAPAN’S INDIGENOUS AINU COMMUNITY DON’T WANT A THEME PARK The brightly lit signs on the Hokkaido motorway in northern Japan do not inform the driver about the traffic. They are, rather, advertising Upopoy, a new tourist complex, and the Ainu National Museum. “Let's sing together for ethnic harmony” is the motto the Japanese government has stamped on the 20-billion-yen project (€164 million, US$192 million) to revive the culture of the Ainu BEING GAY IN KOSOVO, EUROPE’S YOUNGEST NATION On February 17, Kosovo celebrated its tenth birthday. Europe's youngest nation was forged into being following the 1999 war of independence against the security forces of the Serbian government, which for years had ruthlessly oppressed the ethnic Albanian population of its south-western province. Yet, nearly two decades after the formal cessation of hostilities, victims of oppressionremain in
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Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. IN THE SHADOW OF TAIWAN’S CORONAVIRUS SUCCESS, HOSTESSES For the last five years Chi Yang* has been working as a hostess in a club on Linsen North Road in Taipei's popular red-light district. There, the 25-year-old and her colleagues entertain customers who pay them to sing, drink and dine with them in private rooms, where sexual intercourse is illegal but not unheard of. Although Yang works part-time to supplement her degree in fashion design, she THE LONG FIGHT FOR JUSTICE FOR SOUTH KOREA’S DEADLY When Ahn Seong-woo, 38, bought a bottle of liquid steriliser for his humidifier at home in 2010, he thought he was creating a healthy environment for his wife, who was pregnant with their second child. He didn't expect that decision to bring tragedy. Ahn's wife developed a sudden breathing problem in February 2011. She was taken to a hospital but the diagnosis was grim: her lungs had been ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND JOURNALISM: A RACE WITHSEE MORE ONEQUALTIMES.ORG
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AFTER THE REVOLUTION IN EGYPT, WHAT HAS CHANGED FOR THE The revolution in Egypt came as a lifeline for many workers who endured more than 30 years of a tyrannical regime and a decline in economic and social conditions. Egyptian workers played a major role in the revolution in an attempt to fight against the constant violation of core labour rights and to improve their poor economic conditions, after the closure of many factories. Since the 1990s CONTRE LA PRÉCARITÉ DE L’EMPLOI, IL EXISTE BIEN DETRANSLATE THISPAGE
Depuis l'apparition des plateformes numériques (Uber, Deliveroo, Glovo) dans notre société, les syndicats mènent un combat long et difficile pour appréhender cette réalité et défendre les droits des personnes qui travaillent pour ces plateformes. Par exemple, dans notre syndicat, UGT, nous avions besoin d'un nouvel outil syndical et d'une nouvelle approche du problème. Selon TRABAJO INFORMAL EN TIEMPOS DE PANDEMIA: CUANDO …TRANSLATE THIS PAGE Unos 2.000 millones de personas en el planeta viven de la economía informal, lo que supone un 61% del total de la población empleada en el mundo, según la Organización Internacional del Trabajo. Sus trabajos son en buena medida esenciales, desde recoger la basura a vender en la calle alimentos y productos básicos asequibles, pasando por las tareas domésticas y de cuidados. Sin embargo JAPAN’S INDIGENOUS AINU COMMUNITY DON’T WANT A THEME PARK The brightly lit signs on the Hokkaido motorway in northern Japan do not inform the driver about the traffic. They are, rather, advertising Upopoy, a new tourist complex, and the Ainu National Museum. “Let's sing together for ethnic harmony” is the motto the Japanese government has stamped on the 20-billion-yen project (€164 million, US$192 million) to revive the culture of the Ainu BEING GAY IN KOSOVO, EUROPE’S YOUNGEST NATION On February 17, Kosovo celebrated its tenth birthday. Europe's youngest nation was forged into being following the 1999 war of independence against the security forces of the Serbian government, which for years had ruthlessly oppressed the ethnic Albanian population of its south-western province. Yet, nearly two decades after the formal cessation of hostilities, victims of oppressionremain in
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Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. PARAGUAY: THE VIEW FROM THE BACK OF THE COVID VACCINE While selfies of people (many of whom do not belong to risk groups) getting vaccinated have become a common sight in the United Arab Emirates, Israel, the United Kingdom, the United States and the EU, throughout the rest of the world, health workers, care workers, firefighters, at-risk patients and the elderly are still waiting for their turn. Vaccine distribution has mirrored global economic SOCIAL DIALOGUE IS THE KEY TO FOSTERING TRADE UNION The Covid-19 pandemic has mutated from a health emergency into one of the most serious global socio-economic crises in living memory. Its adverse impacts can be felt throughout society, especially in the world of work, and particularly in Africa, where it has exacerbated underlying structural challenges and humanitarian crises throughout the continent. According to the African Development WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO PROTECT FILIPINO DOMESTIC WORKERS There are at least 67 million domestic workers worldwide, most of them women, and nearly all of them from poor or economically disadvantaged backgrounds. A lack of work at home means that every year approximately one-fifth of all domestic workers migrate abroad, particularly to the Gulf region, where they are vulnerable to abuse, exploitation, forced labour and violence. The Philippines is one GROWING OLD WITHOUT SOCIAL PROTECTION OR A PENSION IN Eighty-three-year-old Saijun Inqiyan sits, letting time pass, as if awaiting his turn at the dentist's. The dining room is not yet ready. Two volunteer cooks carry trays of rice, salad and vegetables to the ‘altar', to be blessed by Father Allawi, before serving them to the needy. A voice calls out to the diners. Inqiyan struggles to his feet. His movements are awkward and he relies on a THERE CAN BE NO BIODIVERSITY WITHOUT HUMAN DIVERSITY The idea that humans are a danger to nature is deeply rooted in some minds. However, it is based on an ethnocentric vision of what the term ‘human' encompasses. Not all human beings destroy the earth. It is our consumerist lifestyle and economic model based on infinite growth that are at the root of the climate crisis and the decline of biodiversity. Other human societies have a completely WAR CRIMES IN SYRIA: A STEP ON THE ROAD TO JUSTICE FOR THE Anwar al-Bunni does not hide his joy over the sentencing, on 24 February 2021, of former Syrian intelligence agent Eyad al-Gharib to four and a half years in prison for ‘complicity in crimes against humanity'. “This is a historic verdict. I am happy, not because of the conviction of this individual, but because the judge stated very clearly that he was a cog in the wheel of a state policy THE GLOBAL REVOLUTION IN LATIN MUSIC AND ITS SOCIAL IMPACT The global revolution in Latino sounds is generating a profound change in contemporary society. To understand the impact of the phenomenon, we should go back to 9 November 2016, when Donald Trump became president of the United States. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems withus.
HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS TRANSFORMING JOURNALISM Together with experts in artificial intelligence, a group of journalists learned new skills whilst the robot was being “trained”, a decision crucial to the development of the algorithm. “A large amount of editorial input is needed to help the robot make the right choices. This learning process in the newsroom has led tomany new ideas
GENDER-EQUAL PARENTAL LEAVE: AN URGENT RIGHT, A LONG WAY Parental leave is “the only social right in many nations you can transfer from one person to another,” said European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans at the launch of EPIC, as he argued for individualised, non-transferable parental leave as the norm, as EQUAL TIMESLABOURHUMAN RIGHTSCULTUREENVIRONMENTPOLITICS &ECONOMYDEVELOPMENT
Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. ACROSS EUROPE, CITIES OF SANCTUARY AND Throughout Europe, scores of towns and communities have taken action to address national governments' apathy when it comes to receiving migrants. The European citizen's initiative We Are Welcoming Europe, Let us help, which calls for a more humane European migration policy, also supports these local visions of hospitality and respect for others. In Belgium, less than a year after the IN THE SHADOW OF TAIWAN’S CORONAVIRUS SUCCESS, HOSTESSES For the last five years Chi Yang* has been working as a hostess in a club on Linsen North Road in Taipei's popular red-light district. There, the 25-year-old and her colleagues entertain customers who pay them to sing, drink and dine with them in private rooms, where sexual intercourse is illegal but not unheard of. Although Yang works part-time to supplement her degree in fashion design, she AFTER THE REVOLUTION IN EGYPT, WHAT HAS CHANGED FOR THE The revolution in Egypt came as a lifeline for many workers who endured more than 30 years of a tyrannical regime and a decline in economic and social conditions. Egyptian workers played a major role in the revolution in an attempt to fight against the constant violation of core labour rights and to improve their poor economic conditions, after the closure of many factories. Since the 1990s ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND JOURNALISM: A RACE WITHSEE MORE ONEQUALTIMES.ORG
CAN REWILDING RESTORE EUROPE’S BIODIVERSITY AND HELP A griffon vulture soars above the Rhodope Mountains that cut across the Bulgaria-Greece border. The colony it belongs to makes its home on the Greek side of the Rhodopes, but often goes in search of food on the Bulgarian side. Nature has little regard for borders, and here there are deer and wolves and vultures – a complete food chain, which is a rarity in Europe. That there are now over 100 THE GLOBAL REVOLUTION IN LATIN MUSIC AND ITS SOCIAL IMPACT The global revolution in Latino sounds is generating a profound change in contemporary society. To understand the impact of the phenomenon, we should go back to 9 November 2016, when Donald Trump became president of the United States. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems withus.
CHINA SEEKS TO BECOME A "SOCIALIST COUNTRY" BY 2050 It was during that time that Jiang brought Wang Huning, his advisor and theoretician, into the political realm. The academic is the theorist behind China’s current project to become a ‘socialist country’ by 2050. (José Á. Díaz ) China is reaching a crucial moment in its long development. The world’s most populated country,now the
FOR US, BY US: AMSTERDAM’S LIFE-SAVING TRANSGENDER CLINIC Before the doors open Alejandra has already laid out a loaf of bread, cheese slices, some hummus as well as a bottle of dry white wine on a long walnut wooden table that extends across the room. Her colleagues, who are also her friends, are busy hooking a thick theatrical curtain onto the ceiling to separate one room from another. On one side is a kitchenette, a desk with two chairs, and a THE ILLEGAL TRADE SUPPLYING BENIN’S FUEL NEEDS Benin relies on a vast illegal network that smuggles petrol from Nigeria. The former French colony, with a population of almost 11 million inhabitants, located to the west of Nigeria, cannot compete with the oil prices in the neighbouring country and has insufficient service stations to cover the population's fuel needs. This need has given rise to a very lucrative business opportunity. Four EQUAL TIMESLABOURHUMAN RIGHTSCULTUREENVIRONMENTPOLITICS &ECONOMYDEVELOPMENT
Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. ACROSS EUROPE, CITIES OF SANCTUARY AND Throughout Europe, scores of towns and communities have taken action to address national governments' apathy when it comes to receiving migrants. The European citizen's initiative We Are Welcoming Europe, Let us help, which calls for a more humane European migration policy, also supports these local visions of hospitality and respect for others. In Belgium, less than a year after the IN THE SHADOW OF TAIWAN’S CORONAVIRUS SUCCESS, HOSTESSES For the last five years Chi Yang* has been working as a hostess in a club on Linsen North Road in Taipei's popular red-light district. There, the 25-year-old and her colleagues entertain customers who pay them to sing, drink and dine with them in private rooms, where sexual intercourse is illegal but not unheard of. Although Yang works part-time to supplement her degree in fashion design, she AFTER THE REVOLUTION IN EGYPT, WHAT HAS CHANGED FOR THE The revolution in Egypt came as a lifeline for many workers who endured more than 30 years of a tyrannical regime and a decline in economic and social conditions. Egyptian workers played a major role in the revolution in an attempt to fight against the constant violation of core labour rights and to improve their poor economic conditions, after the closure of many factories. Since the 1990s ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND JOURNALISM: A RACE WITHSEE MORE ONEQUALTIMES.ORG
CAN REWILDING RESTORE EUROPE’S BIODIVERSITY AND HELP A griffon vulture soars above the Rhodope Mountains that cut across the Bulgaria-Greece border. The colony it belongs to makes its home on the Greek side of the Rhodopes, but often goes in search of food on the Bulgarian side. Nature has little regard for borders, and here there are deer and wolves and vultures – a complete food chain, which is a rarity in Europe. That there are now over 100 THE GLOBAL REVOLUTION IN LATIN MUSIC AND ITS SOCIAL IMPACT The global revolution in Latino sounds is generating a profound change in contemporary society. To understand the impact of the phenomenon, we should go back to 9 November 2016, when Donald Trump became president of the United States. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems withus.
CHINA SEEKS TO BECOME A "SOCIALIST COUNTRY" BY 2050 It was during that time that Jiang brought Wang Huning, his advisor and theoretician, into the political realm. The academic is the theorist behind China’s current project to become a ‘socialist country’ by 2050. (José Á. Díaz ) China is reaching a crucial moment in its long development. The world’s most populated country,now the
FOR US, BY US: AMSTERDAM’S LIFE-SAVING TRANSGENDER CLINIC Before the doors open Alejandra has already laid out a loaf of bread, cheese slices, some hummus as well as a bottle of dry white wine on a long walnut wooden table that extends across the room. Her colleagues, who are also her friends, are busy hooking a thick theatrical curtain onto the ceiling to separate one room from another. On one side is a kitchenette, a desk with two chairs, and a THE ILLEGAL TRADE SUPPLYING BENIN’S FUEL NEEDS Benin relies on a vast illegal network that smuggles petrol from Nigeria. The former French colony, with a population of almost 11 million inhabitants, located to the west of Nigeria, cannot compete with the oil prices in the neighbouring country and has insufficient service stations to cover the population's fuel needs. This need has given rise to a very lucrative business opportunity. FourEQUAL TIMES
Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. THERE IS NO STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR CRIMES AGAINST By 3 December 2019, the number of demonstrators reporting serious eye injuries during Chile's mass protests for a more just society stood at 345. Officers of the Carabineros de Chile (Chile's national police) fired rounds of pellets into their faces in a premeditated and repeated manner. The figure, provided by the National Human Rights Institute (INDH), has been steadily increasing ever since GROWING OLD WITHOUT SOCIAL PROTECTION OR A PENSION IN Eighty-three-year-old Saijun Inqiyan sits, letting time pass, as if awaiting his turn at the dentist's. The dining room is not yet ready. Two volunteer cooks carry trays of rice, salad and vegetables to the ‘altar', to be blessed by Father Allawi, before serving them to the needy. A voice calls out to the diners. Inqiyan struggles to his feet. His movements are awkward and he relies on a THERE CAN BE NO BIODIVERSITY WITHOUT HUMAN DIVERSITY The idea that humans are a danger to nature is deeply rooted in some minds. However, it is based on an ethnocentric vision of what the term ‘human' encompasses. Not all human beings destroy the earth. It is our consumerist lifestyle and economic model based on infinite growth that are at the root of the climate crisis and the decline of biodiversity. Other human societies have a completely WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO PROTECT FILIPINO DOMESTIC WORKERS There are at least 67 million domestic workers worldwide, most of them women, and nearly all of them from poor or economically disadvantaged backgrounds. A lack of work at home means that every year approximately one-fifth of all domestic workers migrate abroad, particularly to the Gulf region, where they are vulnerable to abuse, exploitation, forced labour and violence. The Philippines is one AFTER FLEEING CONFLICT AT HOME, AFRICAN REFUGEES BATTLE “There is war in Sudan. Many people are getting killed, women raped, men beaten. In Jordan, we just stay at home but it also feels like war. Discrimination. Not being able to work. It's just like war,” says Abdul*, who fled Darfur in 2010. He is among the more than 4,000 Sudanese people who – fleeing war and persecution – has found refuge in Jordan. Most come from Darfur, a region THE ISRAELIS STRUGGLING WITH POVERTY AND THE HIGH COST OF The blue and white flags bearing the Star of David are flying all around, in the smallest of grocery shops, from every balcony and wing mirror. It is a special anniversary: 70 years. The age of a dearly-loved grandfather or a grandmother we begrudgingly visit. Seventy candles on the cake of the Jewish state that leaves some with a bitter taste of injustice, unkept promises and hope for a GENDER-EQUAL PARENTAL LEAVE: AN URGENT RIGHT, A LONG WAY Parental leave is “the only social right in many nations you can transfer from one person to another,” said European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans at the launch of EPIC, as he argued for individualised, non-transferable parental leave as the norm, as RACISM AND REVOLUTION: THE PLIGHT OF BLACK AFRICANS IN Last Thursday as many as 350 migrants, mainly from sub-Saharan Africa, died as they tried to reach Italy by boat. But as the world continues to reel from the shock of the Lampedusa tragedy, the spotlight is turning towards Libya, the point of the boat's departure. More than 30,000 migrants and refugees have arrived in Italy by sea this year alone, according to the United Nations – mainly WASHED-UP AT 50: AGE DISCRIMINATION IN THE NETHERLANDS Policymakers rarely discuss the impact of austerity on the over-50s, but in real terms no other age group has been harder hit. In the Netherlands, tens of thousands of workers who spent years building up a career, savings and a livelihood, have found themselves laid off as a result of the crisis and forced into claiming social benefits and subsequent poverty. While the government has been EQUAL TIMESLABOURHUMAN RIGHTSCULTUREENVIRONMENTPOLITICS &ECONOMYDEVELOPMENT
Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. IN THE SHADOW OF TAIWAN’S CORONAVIRUS SUCCESS, HOSTESSES For the last five years Chi Yang* has been working as a hostess in a club on Linsen North Road in Taipei's popular red-light district. There, the 25-year-old and her colleagues entertain customers who pay them to sing, drink and dine with them in private rooms, where sexual intercourse is illegal but not unheard of. Although Yang works part-time to supplement her degree in fashion design, she AFTER THE REVOLUTION IN EGYPT, WHAT HAS CHANGED FOR THE The revolution in Egypt came as a lifeline for many workers who endured more than 30 years of a tyrannical regime and a decline in economic and social conditions. Egyptian workers played a major role in the revolution in an attempt to fight against the constant violation of core labour rights and to improve their poor economic conditions, after the closure of many factories. Since the 1990s WILL ZIMBABWE’S PENSIONERS FINALLY GET WHAT THEY ARE OWED There could be light at the end of the tunnel for tens of thousands of Zimbabwean pensioners who have been locked in a bitter standoff with insurance companies over the payment of benefits. Since Zimbabwe adopted a multiple currency system in 2009, insurance firms have been clashing with pensioners and policyholders who are unhappy with the paltry benefits being disbursed THE ‘WAR ON DRUGS’ IS INEFFECTIVE AND VIOLATES HUMANTHE WAR ON DRUGS FACTSHISTORY ON WAR ON DRUGSWAR ON DRUGSWAR ON DRUGS ARTICLEWARON DRUGS COST
A 130 per cent increase in poppy growing, more than 72,000 deaths by overdose during 2017 in the United States alone (the highest level on record), nearly 4,000 prisoners with death sentences executed worldwide since 2009 for drug-related crimes: these are some of the alarming figures quoted in the International Drug Policy Consortium's (IDPC) report published last October. The prohibitionist FOR US, BY US: AMSTERDAM’S LIFE-SAVING TRANSGENDER CLINIC Before the doors open Alejandra has already laid out a loaf of bread, cheese slices, some hummus as well as a bottle of dry white wine on a long walnut wooden table that extends across the room. Her colleagues, who are also her friends, are busy hooking a thick theatrical curtain onto the ceiling to separate one room from another. On one side is a kitchenette, a desk with two chairs, and a THE GLOBAL REVOLUTION IN LATIN MUSIC AND ITS SOCIAL IMPACTGLOBAL THESAURUSLATIN WORD FOR 5LATIN WORD FOR GROWTHWHO ARE GLOBALIST INAMERICA
The global revolution in Latino sounds is generating a profound change in contemporary society. To understand the impact of the phenomenon, we should go back to 9 November 2016, when Donald Trump became president of the United States. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems withus.
FINLAND’S ‘HOUSING FIRST’ POLICY PROVES THAT HOMELESSNESS Rita Lahtinen, 54, moved into her own home in April after seven years in temporary shelters. “It's changed my life,” she says. The sun shines through big windows into the one-room flat in Helsinki, the Finnish capital. One corner hosts a small kitchen, and there is a big desk with her artwork, a sofa and a bed. Most of the furniture is second-hand, although some of it is new. “It is hard PORTUGAL’S DISABLED POPULATION CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE FOR Jorge Falcato was left paraplegic after a police officer shot him during a protest in 1978. He struggles with his disability everyday and the stigma that it carries. But as a Member of Parliament, Falcato is also struggling to get the government to do more to help the country's disabled population gain equal rights and opportunities. “There is a mix of poor education, prejudice and negative SWEDISH RESEARCHERS EXAMINED WHETHER A SIX-HOUR WORKDAY IS6 HOUR WORKDAYSWEDEN 6 HOUR WORKDAYTOYOTA WORKDAY IDTOYOTA WORKDAY PORTALWORKING 6 HOURS A DAY In February 2015, Gothenburg's City Council voted to run an 18-month experiment at its Svartedalen elderly care home. The staff would transition from a standard eight-hour working day to just six hours a day with no pay cut. Amidst growing media attention, the question was really whether it was possible, even for progressive and advanced Sweden, to cut down on the amount of work hours and EQUAL TIMESLABOURHUMAN RIGHTSCULTUREENVIRONMENTPOLITICS &ECONOMYDEVELOPMENT
Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. IN THE SHADOW OF TAIWAN’S CORONAVIRUS SUCCESS, HOSTESSES For the last five years Chi Yang* has been working as a hostess in a club on Linsen North Road in Taipei's popular red-light district. There, the 25-year-old and her colleagues entertain customers who pay them to sing, drink and dine with them in private rooms, where sexual intercourse is illegal but not unheard of. Although Yang works part-time to supplement her degree in fashion design, she AFTER THE REVOLUTION IN EGYPT, WHAT HAS CHANGED FOR THE The revolution in Egypt came as a lifeline for many workers who endured more than 30 years of a tyrannical regime and a decline in economic and social conditions. Egyptian workers played a major role in the revolution in an attempt to fight against the constant violation of core labour rights and to improve their poor economic conditions, after the closure of many factories. Since the 1990s WILL ZIMBABWE’S PENSIONERS FINALLY GET WHAT THEY ARE OWED There could be light at the end of the tunnel for tens of thousands of Zimbabwean pensioners who have been locked in a bitter standoff with insurance companies over the payment of benefits. Since Zimbabwe adopted a multiple currency system in 2009, insurance firms have been clashing with pensioners and policyholders who are unhappy with the paltry benefits being disbursed THE ‘WAR ON DRUGS’ IS INEFFECTIVE AND VIOLATES HUMANTHE WAR ON DRUGS FACTSHISTORY ON WAR ON DRUGSWAR ON DRUGSWAR ON DRUGS ARTICLEWARON DRUGS COST
A 130 per cent increase in poppy growing, more than 72,000 deaths by overdose during 2017 in the United States alone (the highest level on record), nearly 4,000 prisoners with death sentences executed worldwide since 2009 for drug-related crimes: these are some of the alarming figures quoted in the International Drug Policy Consortium's (IDPC) report published last October. The prohibitionist FOR US, BY US: AMSTERDAM’S LIFE-SAVING TRANSGENDER CLINIC Before the doors open Alejandra has already laid out a loaf of bread, cheese slices, some hummus as well as a bottle of dry white wine on a long walnut wooden table that extends across the room. Her colleagues, who are also her friends, are busy hooking a thick theatrical curtain onto the ceiling to separate one room from another. On one side is a kitchenette, a desk with two chairs, and a THE GLOBAL REVOLUTION IN LATIN MUSIC AND ITS SOCIAL IMPACTGLOBAL THESAURUSLATIN WORD FOR 5LATIN WORD FOR GROWTHWHO ARE GLOBALIST INAMERICA
The global revolution in Latino sounds is generating a profound change in contemporary society. To understand the impact of the phenomenon, we should go back to 9 November 2016, when Donald Trump became president of the United States. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems withus.
FINLAND’S ‘HOUSING FIRST’ POLICY PROVES THAT HOMELESSNESS Rita Lahtinen, 54, moved into her own home in April after seven years in temporary shelters. “It's changed my life,” she says. The sun shines through big windows into the one-room flat in Helsinki, the Finnish capital. One corner hosts a small kitchen, and there is a big desk with her artwork, a sofa and a bed. Most of the furniture is second-hand, although some of it is new. “It is hard PORTUGAL’S DISABLED POPULATION CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE FOR Jorge Falcato was left paraplegic after a police officer shot him during a protest in 1978. He struggles with his disability everyday and the stigma that it carries. But as a Member of Parliament, Falcato is also struggling to get the government to do more to help the country's disabled population gain equal rights and opportunities. “There is a mix of poor education, prejudice and negative SWEDISH RESEARCHERS EXAMINED WHETHER A SIX-HOUR WORKDAY IS6 HOUR WORKDAYSWEDEN 6 HOUR WORKDAYTOYOTA WORKDAY IDTOYOTA WORKDAY PORTALWORKING 6 HOURS A DAY In February 2015, Gothenburg's City Council voted to run an 18-month experiment at its Svartedalen elderly care home. The staff would transition from a standard eight-hour working day to just six hours a day with no pay cut. Amidst growing media attention, the question was really whether it was possible, even for progressive and advanced Sweden, to cut down on the amount of work hours andEQUAL TIMES
Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. THERE IS NO STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR CRIMES AGAINST 1 day ago · By 3 December 2019, the number of demonstrators reporting serious eye injuries during Chile's mass protests for a more just society stood at 345. Officers of the Carabineros de Chile (Chile's national police) fired rounds of pellets into their faces in a premeditated and repeated manner. The figure, provided by the National Human Rights Institute (INDH), has been steadily increasingever since
THE ‘WAR ON DRUGS’ IS INEFFECTIVE AND VIOLATES HUMAN A 130 per cent increase in poppy growing, more than 72,000 deaths by overdose during 2017 in the United States alone (the highest level on record), nearly 4,000 prisoners with death sentences executed worldwide since 2009 for drug-related crimes: these are some of the alarming figures quoted in the International Drug Policy Consortium's (IDPC) report published last October. The prohibitionistEQUAL TIMES
Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. THE GLOBAL REVOLUTION IN LATIN MUSIC AND ITS SOCIAL IMPACT The global revolution in Latino sounds is generating a profound change in contemporary society. To understand the impact of the phenomenon, we should go back to 9 November 2016, when Donald Trump became president of the United States. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems withus.
GENDER-EQUAL PARENTAL LEAVE: AN URGENT RIGHT, A LONG WAY Parental leave is “the only social right in many nations you can transfer from one person to another,” said European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans at the launch of EPIC, as he argued for individualised, non-transferable parental leave as the norm, as CHINA SEEKS TO BECOME A "SOCIALIST COUNTRY" BY 2050 It was during that time that Jiang brought Wang Huning, his advisor and theoretician, into the political realm. The academic is the theorist behind China’s current project to become a ‘socialist country’ by 2050. (José Á. Díaz ) China is reaching a crucial moment in its long development. The world’s most populated country,now the
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Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. PROPER CHILDCARE HELPS POOR WORKING WOMEN Thanks for the helpful post. Global poverty is a social, economic and political issue. Many of the non-governmental organization like mission humanitaire around the world are now creating a pathway out of poverty. So, one can take initiative and work with such organization towards a better world. BATWA: THE MOST MARGINALISED PEOPLE IN UGANDA? The Batwa (known, pejoratively as “pygmies” in the west because of their height) are one of the oldest surviving tribes in Africa, but their culture, identity and language are under increasing threat. The traditional hunting ground of this nomadic community comprises forested areas in what is now Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, in 1991, due to EQUAL TIMESLABOURHUMAN RIGHTSCULTUREENVIRONMENTPOLITICS &ECONOMYDEVELOPMENT
Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. IN THE SHADOW OF TAIWAN’S CORONAVIRUS SUCCESS, HOSTESSES For the last five years Chi Yang* has been working as a hostess in a club on Linsen North Road in Taipei's popular red-light district. There, the 25-year-old and her colleagues entertain customers who pay them to sing, drink and dine with them in private rooms, where sexual intercourse is illegal but not unheard of. Although Yang works part-time to supplement her degree in fashion design, she AFTER THE REVOLUTION IN EGYPT, WHAT HAS CHANGED FOR THE The revolution in Egypt came as a lifeline for many workers who endured more than 30 years of a tyrannical regime and a decline in economic and social conditions. Egyptian workers played a major role in the revolution in an attempt to fight against the constant violation of core labour rights and to improve their poor economic conditions, after the closure of many factories. Since the 1990s WILL ZIMBABWE’S PENSIONERS FINALLY GET WHAT THEY ARE OWED There could be light at the end of the tunnel for tens of thousands of Zimbabwean pensioners who have been locked in a bitter standoff with insurance companies over the payment of benefits. Since Zimbabwe adopted a multiple currency system in 2009, insurance firms have been clashing with pensioners and policyholders who are unhappy with the paltry benefits being disbursed THE ‘WAR ON DRUGS’ IS INEFFECTIVE AND VIOLATES HUMANTHE WAR ON DRUGS FACTSHISTORY ON WAR ON DRUGSWAR ON DRUGSWAR ON DRUGS ARTICLEWARON DRUGS COST
A 130 per cent increase in poppy growing, more than 72,000 deaths by overdose during 2017 in the United States alone (the highest level on record), nearly 4,000 prisoners with death sentences executed worldwide since 2009 for drug-related crimes: these are some of the alarming figures quoted in the International Drug Policy Consortium's (IDPC) report published last October. The prohibitionist FOR US, BY US: AMSTERDAM’S LIFE-SAVING TRANSGENDER CLINIC Before the doors open Alejandra has already laid out a loaf of bread, cheese slices, some hummus as well as a bottle of dry white wine on a long walnut wooden table that extends across the room. Her colleagues, who are also her friends, are busy hooking a thick theatrical curtain onto the ceiling to separate one room from another. On one side is a kitchenette, a desk with two chairs, and a THE GLOBAL REVOLUTION IN LATIN MUSIC AND ITS SOCIAL IMPACTGLOBAL THESAURUSLATIN WORD FOR 5LATIN WORD FOR GROWTHWHO ARE GLOBALIST INAMERICA
The global revolution in Latino sounds is generating a profound change in contemporary society. To understand the impact of the phenomenon, we should go back to 9 November 2016, when Donald Trump became president of the United States. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems withus.
FINLAND’S ‘HOUSING FIRST’ POLICY PROVES THAT HOMELESSNESS Rita Lahtinen, 54, moved into her own home in April after seven years in temporary shelters. “It's changed my life,” she says. The sun shines through big windows into the one-room flat in Helsinki, the Finnish capital. One corner hosts a small kitchen, and there is a big desk with her artwork, a sofa and a bed. Most of the furniture is second-hand, although some of it is new. “It is hard PORTUGAL’S DISABLED POPULATION CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE FOR Jorge Falcato was left paraplegic after a police officer shot him during a protest in 1978. He struggles with his disability everyday and the stigma that it carries. But as a Member of Parliament, Falcato is also struggling to get the government to do more to help the country's disabled population gain equal rights and opportunities. “There is a mix of poor education, prejudice and negative SWEDISH RESEARCHERS EXAMINED WHETHER A SIX-HOUR WORKDAY IS6 HOUR WORKDAYSWEDEN 6 HOUR WORKDAYTOYOTA WORKDAY IDTOYOTA WORKDAY PORTALWORKING 6 HOURS A DAY In February 2015, Gothenburg's City Council voted to run an 18-month experiment at its Svartedalen elderly care home. The staff would transition from a standard eight-hour working day to just six hours a day with no pay cut. Amidst growing media attention, the question was really whether it was possible, even for progressive and advanced Sweden, to cut down on the amount of work hours and EQUAL TIMESLABOURHUMAN RIGHTSCULTUREENVIRONMENTPOLITICS &ECONOMYDEVELOPMENT
Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. IN THE SHADOW OF TAIWAN’S CORONAVIRUS SUCCESS, HOSTESSES For the last five years Chi Yang* has been working as a hostess in a club on Linsen North Road in Taipei's popular red-light district. There, the 25-year-old and her colleagues entertain customers who pay them to sing, drink and dine with them in private rooms, where sexual intercourse is illegal but not unheard of. Although Yang works part-time to supplement her degree in fashion design, she AFTER THE REVOLUTION IN EGYPT, WHAT HAS CHANGED FOR THE The revolution in Egypt came as a lifeline for many workers who endured more than 30 years of a tyrannical regime and a decline in economic and social conditions. Egyptian workers played a major role in the revolution in an attempt to fight against the constant violation of core labour rights and to improve their poor economic conditions, after the closure of many factories. Since the 1990s WILL ZIMBABWE’S PENSIONERS FINALLY GET WHAT THEY ARE OWED There could be light at the end of the tunnel for tens of thousands of Zimbabwean pensioners who have been locked in a bitter standoff with insurance companies over the payment of benefits. Since Zimbabwe adopted a multiple currency system in 2009, insurance firms have been clashing with pensioners and policyholders who are unhappy with the paltry benefits being disbursed THE ‘WAR ON DRUGS’ IS INEFFECTIVE AND VIOLATES HUMANTHE WAR ON DRUGS FACTSHISTORY ON WAR ON DRUGSWAR ON DRUGSWAR ON DRUGS ARTICLEWARON DRUGS COST
A 130 per cent increase in poppy growing, more than 72,000 deaths by overdose during 2017 in the United States alone (the highest level on record), nearly 4,000 prisoners with death sentences executed worldwide since 2009 for drug-related crimes: these are some of the alarming figures quoted in the International Drug Policy Consortium's (IDPC) report published last October. The prohibitionist FOR US, BY US: AMSTERDAM’S LIFE-SAVING TRANSGENDER CLINIC Before the doors open Alejandra has already laid out a loaf of bread, cheese slices, some hummus as well as a bottle of dry white wine on a long walnut wooden table that extends across the room. Her colleagues, who are also her friends, are busy hooking a thick theatrical curtain onto the ceiling to separate one room from another. On one side is a kitchenette, a desk with two chairs, and a THE GLOBAL REVOLUTION IN LATIN MUSIC AND ITS SOCIAL IMPACTGLOBAL THESAURUSLATIN WORD FOR 5LATIN WORD FOR GROWTHWHO ARE GLOBALIST INAMERICA
The global revolution in Latino sounds is generating a profound change in contemporary society. To understand the impact of the phenomenon, we should go back to 9 November 2016, when Donald Trump became president of the United States. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems withus.
FINLAND’S ‘HOUSING FIRST’ POLICY PROVES THAT HOMELESSNESS Rita Lahtinen, 54, moved into her own home in April after seven years in temporary shelters. “It's changed my life,” she says. The sun shines through big windows into the one-room flat in Helsinki, the Finnish capital. One corner hosts a small kitchen, and there is a big desk with her artwork, a sofa and a bed. Most of the furniture is second-hand, although some of it is new. “It is hard PORTUGAL’S DISABLED POPULATION CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE FOR Jorge Falcato was left paraplegic after a police officer shot him during a protest in 1978. He struggles with his disability everyday and the stigma that it carries. But as a Member of Parliament, Falcato is also struggling to get the government to do more to help the country's disabled population gain equal rights and opportunities. “There is a mix of poor education, prejudice and negative SWEDISH RESEARCHERS EXAMINED WHETHER A SIX-HOUR WORKDAY IS6 HOUR WORKDAYSWEDEN 6 HOUR WORKDAYTOYOTA WORKDAY IDTOYOTA WORKDAY PORTALWORKING 6 HOURS A DAY In February 2015, Gothenburg's City Council voted to run an 18-month experiment at its Svartedalen elderly care home. The staff would transition from a standard eight-hour working day to just six hours a day with no pay cut. Amidst growing media attention, the question was really whether it was possible, even for progressive and advanced Sweden, to cut down on the amount of work hours andEQUAL TIMES
Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. THERE IS NO STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR CRIMES AGAINST 1 day ago · By 3 December 2019, the number of demonstrators reporting serious eye injuries during Chile's mass protests for a more just society stood at 345. Officers of the Carabineros de Chile (Chile's national police) fired rounds of pellets into their faces in a premeditated and repeated manner. The figure, provided by the National Human Rights Institute (INDH), has been steadily increasingever since
THE ‘WAR ON DRUGS’ IS INEFFECTIVE AND VIOLATES HUMAN A 130 per cent increase in poppy growing, more than 72,000 deaths by overdose during 2017 in the United States alone (the highest level on record), nearly 4,000 prisoners with death sentences executed worldwide since 2009 for drug-related crimes: these are some of the alarming figures quoted in the International Drug Policy Consortium's (IDPC) report published last October. The prohibitionistEQUAL TIMES
Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. THE GLOBAL REVOLUTION IN LATIN MUSIC AND ITS SOCIAL IMPACT The global revolution in Latino sounds is generating a profound change in contemporary society. To understand the impact of the phenomenon, we should go back to 9 November 2016, when Donald Trump became president of the United States. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems withus.
GENDER-EQUAL PARENTAL LEAVE: AN URGENT RIGHT, A LONG WAY Parental leave is “the only social right in many nations you can transfer from one person to another,” said European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans at the launch of EPIC, as he argued for individualised, non-transferable parental leave as the norm, as CHINA SEEKS TO BECOME A "SOCIALIST COUNTRY" BY 2050 It was during that time that Jiang brought Wang Huning, his advisor and theoretician, into the political realm. The academic is the theorist behind China’s current project to become a ‘socialist country’ by 2050. (José Á. Díaz ) China is reaching a crucial moment in its long development. The world’s most populated country,now the
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Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. PROPER CHILDCARE HELPS POOR WORKING WOMEN Thanks for the helpful post. Global poverty is a social, economic and political issue. Many of the non-governmental organization like mission humanitaire around the world are now creating a pathway out of poverty. So, one can take initiative and work with such organization towards a better world. BATWA: THE MOST MARGINALISED PEOPLE IN UGANDA? The Batwa (known, pejoratively as “pygmies” in the west because of their height) are one of the oldest surviving tribes in Africa, but their culture, identity and language are under increasing threat. The traditional hunting ground of this nomadic community comprises forested areas in what is now Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, in 1991, due to EQUAL TIMESLABOURHUMAN RIGHTSCULTUREENVIRONMENTPOLITICS &ECONOMYDEVELOPMENT
Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. IN THE SHADOW OF TAIWAN’S CORONAVIRUS SUCCESS, HOSTESSES For the last five years Chi Yang* has been working as a hostess in a club on Linsen North Road in Taipei's popular red-light district. There, the 25-year-old and her colleagues entertain customers who pay them to sing, drink and dine with them in private rooms, where sexual intercourse is illegal but not unheard of. Although Yang works part-time to supplement her degree in fashion design, she AFTER THE REVOLUTION IN EGYPT, WHAT HAS CHANGED FOR THE The revolution in Egypt came as a lifeline for many workers who endured more than 30 years of a tyrannical regime and a decline in economic and social conditions. Egyptian workers played a major role in the revolution in an attempt to fight against the constant violation of core labour rights and to improve their poor economic conditions, after the closure of many factories. Since the 1990s WILL ZIMBABWE’S PENSIONERS FINALLY GET WHAT THEY ARE OWED There could be light at the end of the tunnel for tens of thousands of Zimbabwean pensioners who have been locked in a bitter standoff with insurance companies over the payment of benefits. Since Zimbabwe adopted a multiple currency system in 2009, insurance firms have been clashing with pensioners and policyholders who are unhappy with the paltry benefits being disbursed THE ‘WAR ON DRUGS’ IS INEFFECTIVE AND VIOLATES HUMANTHE WAR ON DRUGS FACTSHISTORY ON WAR ON DRUGSWAR ON DRUGSWAR ON DRUGS ARTICLEWARON DRUGS COST
A 130 per cent increase in poppy growing, more than 72,000 deaths by overdose during 2017 in the United States alone (the highest level on record), nearly 4,000 prisoners with death sentences executed worldwide since 2009 for drug-related crimes: these are some of the alarming figures quoted in the International Drug Policy Consortium's (IDPC) report published last October. The prohibitionist FOR US, BY US: AMSTERDAM’S LIFE-SAVING TRANSGENDER CLINIC Before the doors open Alejandra has already laid out a loaf of bread, cheese slices, some hummus as well as a bottle of dry white wine on a long walnut wooden table that extends across the room. Her colleagues, who are also her friends, are busy hooking a thick theatrical curtain onto the ceiling to separate one room from another. On one side is a kitchenette, a desk with two chairs, and a THE GLOBAL REVOLUTION IN LATIN MUSIC AND ITS SOCIAL IMPACTGLOBAL THESAURUSLATIN WORD FOR 5LATIN WORD FOR GROWTHWHO ARE GLOBALIST INAMERICA
The global revolution in Latino sounds is generating a profound change in contemporary society. To understand the impact of the phenomenon, we should go back to 9 November 2016, when Donald Trump became president of the United States. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems withus.
FINLAND’S ‘HOUSING FIRST’ POLICY PROVES THAT HOMELESSNESS Rita Lahtinen, 54, moved into her own home in April after seven years in temporary shelters. “It's changed my life,” she says. The sun shines through big windows into the one-room flat in Helsinki, the Finnish capital. One corner hosts a small kitchen, and there is a big desk with her artwork, a sofa and a bed. Most of the furniture is second-hand, although some of it is new. “It is hard PORTUGAL’S DISABLED POPULATION CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE FOR Jorge Falcato was left paraplegic after a police officer shot him during a protest in 1978. He struggles with his disability everyday and the stigma that it carries. But as a Member of Parliament, Falcato is also struggling to get the government to do more to help the country's disabled population gain equal rights and opportunities. “There is a mix of poor education, prejudice and negative SWEDISH RESEARCHERS EXAMINED WHETHER A SIX-HOUR WORKDAY IS6 HOUR WORKDAYSWEDEN 6 HOUR WORKDAYTOYOTA WORKDAY IDTOYOTA WORKDAY PORTALWORKING 6 HOURS A DAY In February 2015, Gothenburg's City Council voted to run an 18-month experiment at its Svartedalen elderly care home. The staff would transition from a standard eight-hour working day to just six hours a day with no pay cut. Amidst growing media attention, the question was really whether it was possible, even for progressive and advanced Sweden, to cut down on the amount of work hours and EQUAL TIMESLABOURHUMAN RIGHTSCULTUREENVIRONMENTPOLITICS &ECONOMYDEVELOPMENT
Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. IN THE SHADOW OF TAIWAN’S CORONAVIRUS SUCCESS, HOSTESSES For the last five years Chi Yang* has been working as a hostess in a club on Linsen North Road in Taipei's popular red-light district. There, the 25-year-old and her colleagues entertain customers who pay them to sing, drink and dine with them in private rooms, where sexual intercourse is illegal but not unheard of. Although Yang works part-time to supplement her degree in fashion design, she AFTER THE REVOLUTION IN EGYPT, WHAT HAS CHANGED FOR THE The revolution in Egypt came as a lifeline for many workers who endured more than 30 years of a tyrannical regime and a decline in economic and social conditions. Egyptian workers played a major role in the revolution in an attempt to fight against the constant violation of core labour rights and to improve their poor economic conditions, after the closure of many factories. Since the 1990s WILL ZIMBABWE’S PENSIONERS FINALLY GET WHAT THEY ARE OWED There could be light at the end of the tunnel for tens of thousands of Zimbabwean pensioners who have been locked in a bitter standoff with insurance companies over the payment of benefits. Since Zimbabwe adopted a multiple currency system in 2009, insurance firms have been clashing with pensioners and policyholders who are unhappy with the paltry benefits being disbursed THE ‘WAR ON DRUGS’ IS INEFFECTIVE AND VIOLATES HUMANTHE WAR ON DRUGS FACTSHISTORY ON WAR ON DRUGSWAR ON DRUGSWAR ON DRUGS ARTICLEWARON DRUGS COST
A 130 per cent increase in poppy growing, more than 72,000 deaths by overdose during 2017 in the United States alone (the highest level on record), nearly 4,000 prisoners with death sentences executed worldwide since 2009 for drug-related crimes: these are some of the alarming figures quoted in the International Drug Policy Consortium's (IDPC) report published last October. The prohibitionist FOR US, BY US: AMSTERDAM’S LIFE-SAVING TRANSGENDER CLINIC Before the doors open Alejandra has already laid out a loaf of bread, cheese slices, some hummus as well as a bottle of dry white wine on a long walnut wooden table that extends across the room. Her colleagues, who are also her friends, are busy hooking a thick theatrical curtain onto the ceiling to separate one room from another. On one side is a kitchenette, a desk with two chairs, and a THE GLOBAL REVOLUTION IN LATIN MUSIC AND ITS SOCIAL IMPACTGLOBAL THESAURUSLATIN WORD FOR 5LATIN WORD FOR GROWTHWHO ARE GLOBALIST INAMERICA
The global revolution in Latino sounds is generating a profound change in contemporary society. To understand the impact of the phenomenon, we should go back to 9 November 2016, when Donald Trump became president of the United States. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems withus.
FINLAND’S ‘HOUSING FIRST’ POLICY PROVES THAT HOMELESSNESS Rita Lahtinen, 54, moved into her own home in April after seven years in temporary shelters. “It's changed my life,” she says. The sun shines through big windows into the one-room flat in Helsinki, the Finnish capital. One corner hosts a small kitchen, and there is a big desk with her artwork, a sofa and a bed. Most of the furniture is second-hand, although some of it is new. “It is hard PORTUGAL’S DISABLED POPULATION CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE FOR Jorge Falcato was left paraplegic after a police officer shot him during a protest in 1978. He struggles with his disability everyday and the stigma that it carries. But as a Member of Parliament, Falcato is also struggling to get the government to do more to help the country's disabled population gain equal rights and opportunities. “There is a mix of poor education, prejudice and negative SWEDISH RESEARCHERS EXAMINED WHETHER A SIX-HOUR WORKDAY IS6 HOUR WORKDAYSWEDEN 6 HOUR WORKDAYTOYOTA WORKDAY IDTOYOTA WORKDAY PORTALWORKING 6 HOURS A DAY In February 2015, Gothenburg's City Council voted to run an 18-month experiment at its Svartedalen elderly care home. The staff would transition from a standard eight-hour working day to just six hours a day with no pay cut. Amidst growing media attention, the question was really whether it was possible, even for progressive and advanced Sweden, to cut down on the amount of work hours andEQUAL TIMES
Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. THERE IS NO STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR CRIMES AGAINST 1 day ago · By 3 December 2019, the number of demonstrators reporting serious eye injuries during Chile's mass protests for a more just society stood at 345. Officers of the Carabineros de Chile (Chile's national police) fired rounds of pellets into their faces in a premeditated and repeated manner. The figure, provided by the National Human Rights Institute (INDH), has been steadily increasingever since
THERE CAN BE NO BIODIVERSITY WITHOUT HUMAN DIVERSITY The idea that humans are a danger to nature is deeply rooted in some minds. However, it is based on an ethnocentric vision of what the term ‘human' encompasses. Not all human beings destroy the earth. It is our consumerist lifestyle and economic model based on infinite growth that are at the root of the climate crisis and the decline of biodiversity. Other human societies have a completely THE ‘WAR ON DRUGS’ IS INEFFECTIVE AND VIOLATES HUMAN A 130 per cent increase in poppy growing, more than 72,000 deaths by overdose during 2017 in the United States alone (the highest level on record), nearly 4,000 prisoners with death sentences executed worldwide since 2009 for drug-related crimes: these are some of the alarming figures quoted in the International Drug Policy Consortium's (IDPC) report published last October. The prohibitionist ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND JOURNALISM: A RACE WITH The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a somewhat catch-all term that refers to the different possibilities offered by recent technological developments. From machine learning to natural language processing, news organisations can use AI to automate a huge number of tasks that make up the chain of journalistic production, including detecting, extracting and verifying data, producing storiesEQUAL TIMES
Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. THE GLOBAL REVOLUTION IN LATIN MUSIC AND ITS SOCIAL IMPACT Who would have thought that a Puerto Rican singer would be capable of challenging the leader of the most powerful country in the world? Or that reggaeton would play a major role in the marches that shook Latin America in late 2019? What might have seemed unthinkable just a few years ago is now a reality. The global revolution in Latino sounds is generating a profound change inEQUAL TIMES
Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. GENDER-EQUAL PARENTAL LEAVE: AN URGENT RIGHT, A LONG WAY On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly held in September last year, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a panel discussion with UN Women titled ‘Parental Leave: A Key to Prosperity'. I was almost moved to tears when Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the executive director of UN Women said: “Once you remove the fatherhood privilege, the motherhood burden is forgiven CHINA SEEKS TO BECOME A "SOCIALIST COUNTRY" BY 2050 China is reaching a crucial moment in its long development. The world's most populated country, now the second largest economy on the planet, with an urban population enjoying living standards of the kind never seen by their ancestors, is also burdened with huge social and environmental problems, and inequalities so wide that they could end up undermining the very legitimacy of the CPC, EQUAL TIMESLABOURHUMAN RIGHTSCULTUREENVIRONMENTPOLITICS &ECONOMYDEVELOPMENT
Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. IN THE SHADOW OF TAIWAN’S CORONAVIRUS SUCCESS, HOSTESSES For the last five years Chi Yang* has been working as a hostess in a club on Linsen North Road in Taipei's popular red-light district. There, the 25-year-old and her colleagues entertain customers who pay them to sing, drink and dine with them in private rooms, where sexual intercourse is illegal but not unheard of. Although Yang works part-time to supplement her degree in fashion design, she AFTER THE REVOLUTION IN EGYPT, WHAT HAS CHANGED FOR THE The revolution in Egypt came as a lifeline for many workers who endured more than 30 years of a tyrannical regime and a decline in economic and social conditions. Egyptian workers played a major role in the revolution in an attempt to fight against the constant violation of core labour rights and to improve their poor economic conditions, after the closure of many factories. Since the 1990s WILL ZIMBABWE’S PENSIONERS FINALLY GET WHAT THEY ARE OWED There could be light at the end of the tunnel for tens of thousands of Zimbabwean pensioners who have been locked in a bitter standoff with insurance companies over the payment of benefits. Since Zimbabwe adopted a multiple currency system in 2009, insurance firms have been clashing with pensioners and policyholders who are unhappy with the paltry benefits being disbursed THE ‘WAR ON DRUGS’ IS INEFFECTIVE AND VIOLATES HUMANTHE WAR ON DRUGS FACTSHISTORY ON WAR ON DRUGSWAR ON DRUGSWAR ON DRUGS ARTICLEWARON DRUGS COST
A 130 per cent increase in poppy growing, more than 72,000 deaths by overdose during 2017 in the United States alone (the highest level on record), nearly 4,000 prisoners with death sentences executed worldwide since 2009 for drug-related crimes: these are some of the alarming figures quoted in the International Drug Policy Consortium's (IDPC) report published last October. The prohibitionist FOR US, BY US: AMSTERDAM’S LIFE-SAVING TRANSGENDER CLINIC Before the doors open Alejandra has already laid out a loaf of bread, cheese slices, some hummus as well as a bottle of dry white wine on a long walnut wooden table that extends across the room. Her colleagues, who are also her friends, are busy hooking a thick theatrical curtain onto the ceiling to separate one room from another. On one side is a kitchenette, a desk with two chairs, and a THE GLOBAL REVOLUTION IN LATIN MUSIC AND ITS SOCIAL IMPACTGLOBAL THESAURUSLATIN WORD FOR 5LATIN WORD FOR GROWTHWHO ARE GLOBALIST INAMERICA
Who would have thought that a Puerto Rican singer would be capable of challenging the leader of the most powerful country in the world? Or that reggaeton would play a major role in the marches that shook Latin America in late 2019? What might have seemed unthinkable just a few years ago is now a reality. The global revolution in Latino sounds is generating a profound change in FINLAND’S ‘HOUSING FIRST’ POLICY PROVES THAT HOMELESSNESS Rita Lahtinen, 54, moved into her own home in April after seven years in temporary shelters. “It's changed my life,” she says. The sun shines through big windows into the one-room flat in Helsinki, the Finnish capital. One corner hosts a small kitchen, and there is a big desk with her artwork, a sofa and a bed. Most of the furniture is second-hand, although some of it is new. “It is hard PORTUGAL’S DISABLED POPULATION CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE FOR Jorge Falcato was left paraplegic after a police officer shot him during a protest in 1978. He struggles with his disability everyday and the stigma that it carries. But as a Member of Parliament, Falcato is also struggling to get the government to do more to help the country's disabled population gain equal rights and opportunities. “There is a mix of poor education, prejudice and negative SWEDISH RESEARCHERS EXAMINED WHETHER A SIX-HOUR WORKDAY IS6 HOUR WORKDAYSWEDEN 6 HOUR WORKDAYTOYOTA WORKDAY IDTOYOTA WORKDAY PORTALWORKING 6 HOURS A DAY In February 2015, Gothenburg's City Council voted to run an 18-month experiment at its Svartedalen elderly care home. The staff would transition from a standard eight-hour working day to just six hours a day with no pay cut. Amidst growing media attention, the question was really whether it was possible, even for progressive and advanced Sweden, to cut down on the amount of work hours and EQUAL TIMESLABOURHUMAN RIGHTSCULTUREENVIRONMENTPOLITICS &ECONOMYDEVELOPMENT
Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. IN THE SHADOW OF TAIWAN’S CORONAVIRUS SUCCESS, HOSTESSES For the last five years Chi Yang* has been working as a hostess in a club on Linsen North Road in Taipei's popular red-light district. There, the 25-year-old and her colleagues entertain customers who pay them to sing, drink and dine with them in private rooms, where sexual intercourse is illegal but not unheard of. Although Yang works part-time to supplement her degree in fashion design, she AFTER THE REVOLUTION IN EGYPT, WHAT HAS CHANGED FOR THE The revolution in Egypt came as a lifeline for many workers who endured more than 30 years of a tyrannical regime and a decline in economic and social conditions. Egyptian workers played a major role in the revolution in an attempt to fight against the constant violation of core labour rights and to improve their poor economic conditions, after the closure of many factories. Since the 1990s WILL ZIMBABWE’S PENSIONERS FINALLY GET WHAT THEY ARE OWED There could be light at the end of the tunnel for tens of thousands of Zimbabwean pensioners who have been locked in a bitter standoff with insurance companies over the payment of benefits. Since Zimbabwe adopted a multiple currency system in 2009, insurance firms have been clashing with pensioners and policyholders who are unhappy with the paltry benefits being disbursed THE ‘WAR ON DRUGS’ IS INEFFECTIVE AND VIOLATES HUMANTHE WAR ON DRUGS FACTSHISTORY ON WAR ON DRUGSWAR ON DRUGSWAR ON DRUGS ARTICLEWARON DRUGS COST
A 130 per cent increase in poppy growing, more than 72,000 deaths by overdose during 2017 in the United States alone (the highest level on record), nearly 4,000 prisoners with death sentences executed worldwide since 2009 for drug-related crimes: these are some of the alarming figures quoted in the International Drug Policy Consortium's (IDPC) report published last October. The prohibitionist FOR US, BY US: AMSTERDAM’S LIFE-SAVING TRANSGENDER CLINIC Before the doors open Alejandra has already laid out a loaf of bread, cheese slices, some hummus as well as a bottle of dry white wine on a long walnut wooden table that extends across the room. Her colleagues, who are also her friends, are busy hooking a thick theatrical curtain onto the ceiling to separate one room from another. On one side is a kitchenette, a desk with two chairs, and a THE GLOBAL REVOLUTION IN LATIN MUSIC AND ITS SOCIAL IMPACTGLOBAL THESAURUSLATIN WORD FOR 5LATIN WORD FOR GROWTHWHO ARE GLOBALIST INAMERICA
Who would have thought that a Puerto Rican singer would be capable of challenging the leader of the most powerful country in the world? Or that reggaeton would play a major role in the marches that shook Latin America in late 2019? What might have seemed unthinkable just a few years ago is now a reality. The global revolution in Latino sounds is generating a profound change in FINLAND’S ‘HOUSING FIRST’ POLICY PROVES THAT HOMELESSNESS Rita Lahtinen, 54, moved into her own home in April after seven years in temporary shelters. “It's changed my life,” she says. The sun shines through big windows into the one-room flat in Helsinki, the Finnish capital. One corner hosts a small kitchen, and there is a big desk with her artwork, a sofa and a bed. Most of the furniture is second-hand, although some of it is new. “It is hard PORTUGAL’S DISABLED POPULATION CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE FOR Jorge Falcato was left paraplegic after a police officer shot him during a protest in 1978. He struggles with his disability everyday and the stigma that it carries. But as a Member of Parliament, Falcato is also struggling to get the government to do more to help the country's disabled population gain equal rights and opportunities. “There is a mix of poor education, prejudice and negative SWEDISH RESEARCHERS EXAMINED WHETHER A SIX-HOUR WORKDAY IS6 HOUR WORKDAYSWEDEN 6 HOUR WORKDAYTOYOTA WORKDAY IDTOYOTA WORKDAY PORTALWORKING 6 HOURS A DAY In February 2015, Gothenburg's City Council voted to run an 18-month experiment at its Svartedalen elderly care home. The staff would transition from a standard eight-hour working day to just six hours a day with no pay cut. Amidst growing media attention, the question was really whether it was possible, even for progressive and advanced Sweden, to cut down on the amount of work hours andEQUAL TIMES
Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective. THERE IS NO STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR CRIMES AGAINST 1 day ago · By 3 December 2019, the number of demonstrators reporting serious eye injuries during Chile's mass protests for a more just society stood at 345. Officers of the Carabineros de Chile (Chile's national police) fired rounds of pellets into their faces in a premeditated and repeated manner. The figure, provided by the National Human Rights Institute (INDH), has been steadily increasingever since
THERE CAN BE NO BIODIVERSITY WITHOUT HUMAN DIVERSITY The idea that humans are a danger to nature is deeply rooted in some minds. However, it is based on an ethnocentric vision of what the term ‘human' encompasses. Not all human beings destroy the earth. It is our consumerist lifestyle and economic model based on infinite growth that are at the root of the climate crisis and the decline of biodiversity. Other human societies have a completely THE ‘WAR ON DRUGS’ IS INEFFECTIVE AND VIOLATES HUMAN A 130 per cent increase in poppy growing, more than 72,000 deaths by overdose during 2017 in the United States alone (the highest level on record), nearly 4,000 prisoners with death sentences executed worldwide since 2009 for drug-related crimes: these are some of the alarming figures quoted in the International Drug Policy Consortium's (IDPC) report published last October. The prohibitionist ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND JOURNALISM: A RACE WITH The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a somewhat catch-all term that refers to the different possibilities offered by recent technological developments. From machine learning to natural language processing, news organisations can use AI to automate a huge number of tasks that make up the chain of journalistic production, including detecting, extracting and verifying data, producing storiesEQUAL TIMES
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In one of the most religious countries in the world, Nigerian churches and mosques have joined the fight against the coronavirus “This is a society where people rarely trust the government. But when religious leaders began to lend their voices, there was a huge turnaround for the country. Getting the right message out early saved Nigeria.”Read the full article “This is a society where people rarely trust the government. But when religious leaders began to lend their voices, there was a huge turnaround for the country. Getting the right message out early saved Nigeria.”Read the full articleBy Orji Sunday
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