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Better to Ride These Bikes Than Make Them

Cambodia’s export business is in the process of changing due to shifts in manufacturing in Asia. A business publication in the country has reported unexpected growth in the “machinery and transport...

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India Tightening Child Labour Laws

After one of the six males under trial for the rape and subsequent death of a 23-year-old woman was deemed an adolescent and therefore entitled to leniency, juvenile rights activists have found...

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24 Nails Dug Into Body, Luckily

Lahandapurege Ariyawathie feels she got off lightly – if returning home with 24 nails embedded in your body is lucky. Ariyawathie, 52, from the southern Sri Lankan district Matara, had left to work as...

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Fishing Labour Out of the Dark Ages

When Ko Mynt fled poverty in Myanmar for a job in neighbouring Thailand, the thought of labouring long hours in a shrimp peeling shed was far from his mind. So was this seaside town south of Bangkok....

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Lebanon in a ‘Civil War’ Over Wages

The surprise resignation of Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nijab Mikati eclipsed his last major manoeuvre, which was to refer to parliament a highly contentious wage scale hike for the public sector....

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Turkey’s Building Boom Takes Toll on Worker Safety

Relatives of victims of workplace fatalities have been staging monthly vigils in central Istanbul for the past two years, asking for those responsible for the deaths to be identified and held...

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Trade Facilitation Will Support African Industrialisation

In this column, Roberto Azevêdo, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), argues that the Trade Facilitation Agreement delivered by the Bali package in December last year will support...

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Put People Not ‘Empire of Capital’ at Heart of Development

By Ravi Kanth DevarakondaGENEVA, Oct 27 2014 (IPS)President Rafael Correa Delgado of Ecuador does not mince words when it comes to development. ”Neoliberal policies based on so-called competitiveness,...

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Escape Route Towards Social Inclusion for War-Disabled Gazan Youth

Samah Shaheen (right), one of Gaza’s many disabled young people, joined the Irada programme to acquire expertise, learn computerised wood carving and escape social marginalisation. Credit: Khaled...

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OPINION: Banks, Inequality and Citizens

In this column, Roberto Savio, founder and president emeritus of the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency and publisher of Other News, argues that alarming figures on what has gone wrong in global...

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Decent Employment Opportunities for Young People in Rural Africa

Subsistence-oriented small-scale agriculture is often not the preferred choice of work for many young Africans. Photo credit: FAOBy Kwame BuistJOHANNESBURG, Mar 27 2015 (IPS)Over half of the African...

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Opinion: Why Are Threats to Civil Society Growing Around the World?

In this column, Mandeep Tiwana, a lawyer specialising in human rights and civil society issues and Head of Policy and Research at CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance, argues that in recent years...

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Earthquakes Don’t Kill, Buildings Do – Or Is It Inequity?

70-year-old Chiute Tamang, his wife, daughter and son-in-law lost their house when the earth shook on Apr 25, 2015 in Nepal. They now lives a one-room cabin made of a wooden skeleton encased in...

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In Search of Jobs, Cameroonian Women May End Up as Slaves in Middle East

The lack of jobs after graduation frequently pushes Cameroonian girls into searching for work opportunities, sometimes overseas and sometimes with horrific consequences. Credit: Ngala Killian...

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Interview: “‘We’re Not Independent Enough,” says ASEAN Rights Commission Chair

By Diana MendozaKUALA LUMPUR, Nov 2 2015 (IPS)(IPS Asia-Pacific) – Although it is six years old, few know what the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) does. It has been called...

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From Bangladesh to Bihar

Chandra Mohan is an economics and business commentator.By N Chandra MohanNEW DELHI, Nov 11 2015 (IPS)Times are a-changing for Bihar, a state popularly described as a state of mind. The recent elections...

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From Darkness to Light: Dramatic Rescue of Tanzanian Miners Trapped 41 Days...

The five artisanal miners who narrowly escaped death last week after a 41-day ordeal in a collapsed gold mine in northern Tanzania called their experience a living hell. They went through a myriad of...

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Aspects of Dualism in the Gulf

Chandra Mohan is an economics and business commentator.By N Chandra MohanNEW DELHI, Dec 3 2015 (IPS)The crash in oil prices is not the only challenge confronting the Gulf States in West Asia. Economic...

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India Needs to “Save its Daughters” Through Education and Gender Equality

Women constitute nearly half of the country’s 1.25 billion people and gender equality — whether in politics, economics, education or health — is still a distant dream for most. This fact was driven...

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Experts Call For Global Momentum on Gender Parity

Mary Wanja, a farmer at Ngangarithi, Kenya, using water from a stream to water her produce. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) indicates that the face of farming is still...

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Aquaculture Boosts Papua New Guinea’s Food Security

The vast Sirinumu Reservoir in Central Province which supplies water and electricity to Papua New Guinea (PNG)’s capital, is home to a co-operative of 60 fish farmers who are successfully employing...

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Growing ‘Entertainment’ Industry Traps Nepali Girls

Kathmandu's entertainment joints hire minor girls. Credit: Naresh Newar/IPSBy Naresh NewarKATHMANDU, Jul 8 2012 (IPS) Almost unnoticed, Nepal’s burgeoning adult entertainment industry has been drawing...

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Understanding the Roots of Ghana’s Child Labour

By Portia CroweKUMASI, Ghana, Jul 18 2012 (IPS) At eleven years old, Thema, a native of Kumasi, hopes to be a nurse when she grows up. Currently, however, she is employed wandering between taxis and...

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Justice a Long Way Off for Dead Miners

Striking miners who were relased from police custody on Sep. 3 vowed to continue fighting for a minimum monthly wage of 1,495 dollars. Credit: Nat Nxumalo/IPSBy Siyabulela DebeduJOHANNESBURG, Sep 7...

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Maldives Talks Condoms

Condom promotion campaign in Male: Credit: SHEBy Feizal SamathMALE, Sep 22 2012 (IPS) For an orthodox Islamic country, the Maldives has made remarkable progress in halting the spread of HIV in the...

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