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BANGLADESH-LIBYA: Garment Industry Pledges to Employ Evacuated Labourers
- Inter Press Service
Bangladesh’s garment factories and overseas recruiting agencies have pledged to employ a substantial number of Bangladeshi expatriates returning from politically volatile Libya, following the violent crackdown on opposition forces by Muammar Gaddafi’s regime there.
ARGENTINA: Rural Slavery at Time of Record Earnings
- Inter Press Service
Crowded into precarious mud-floored dorms or sheet-metal trailers or forced to live in tents of plastic sheeting, with neither piped water nor electricity, after working 14-hour days: these are the harsh conditions faced by hundreds of thousands of rural workers in Argentina despite bumper crops and record earnings for agribusiness.
Agricultural Policy Is Gender Policy
- Inter Press Service
Eva, a Ghanian woman, was given five pigs and some training on how best to care for them. Eventually, her farm grew to 400 pigs and she was able to buy more land and a motorbike which she not only used for transporting her goods to market but for helping neighbours get to town and to hospital quicker.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Convention Could Secure Decent Work for Domestic Workers
- Inter Press Service
Despite formal recognition of domestic workers' rights in South Africa, they still face a struggle for fair treatment.
Zambezi Floods displace Thousands in Namibia
- Inter Press Service
Thousands of people and livestock in the Caprivi Strip have had to be evacuated during as annual floodwaters rise in the Zambezi. However, loss of life has been kept to a minimum as informal warning systems prove to be effective.
KENYA: Community Turns Garbage Into Energy Source
- Inter Press Service
A community-based organisation in the Kenyan slum area of Kibera set out to clean up garbage and deal with waste water; Ushiriki Wa Safi ended up creating a community cooker that turns waste into an energy source.
Aid Agencies Rush to Japan's Humanitarian Front
- Inter Press Service
Day five of Japan's post-earthquake, post-tsunami life dawned dismally Tuesday, with soaring radiation levels from the Fukushima Daiichi power plants and a relentlessly rising death toll in the four worst-affected prefectures.
Cooperation Strategic To Protect Tigris and Euphrates
- Inter Press Service
On a dusty street in the north-eastern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniya one recent day, an elderly man sold heaps of tomatoes, fruits and other fresh produce from a makeshift trolley.
PAKISTAN: Unsung Heroines Bring Healthcare to Villages
- Inter Press Service
At eight in the morning 30-year-old Sultana Solangi steps out of her house ready for her day’s work. Wearing a black gown that shows only her eyes, she is shod in comfortable slippers and lugs a large black bag.
AFRICA: Responsible Travel Means Not 'Haggling Over Wooden Beads'
- Inter Press Service
Tourism as a concern found its way onto the agenda of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro because of its potential for development but also due to its adverse effects on some populations and natural resources, particularly in Africa.
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