Full Coverage: Labour

31.10.2007 NEW YORK, Oct 31 (OneWorld) - Traditionally, it's the kids who receive sweets from the elders on Halloween, but that years-old ritual is getting a makeover this year in hundreds of communities across North America.

31.10.2007 Employers are practicing social favouritism by shunning dalits and Muslims with matching qualifications in favour of those with upper-caste Hindu names. A recent study provides sufficient evidence on the discriminatory character of the Indian job market.

31.10.2007 Fourteen minors were recently rescued from the clutches of a sub-contractor, working for clothing giant GAP, by a local NGO in Shahpur Jaat area in the Indian capital. But what about the 100,000 child labourers still engaged in embroidery and zari sweatshops in Delhi?

30.10.2007 The Jatropha scrub weed can weather droughts, stop soil erosion, transform barren lands into lush greenery, while providing self-sufficient energy for rural communities – all at the same time. While India has plans to make the plant its chief biofuel source, there is little knowledge on the environmental impact of its cultivation.

26.10.2007 Il movimento di adolescenti lavoratori Nats nei giorni scorsi è stato ricevuto dal parlamento nazionale e dal governo Chavez. “Un passo decisivo per il riconoscimento dei diritti del minore lavoratore” – commenta Cristiano Morsolin che accompagna dal 2001 i movimenti NATs in America Latina e per Selvas.org ha redatto la cronaca dell’incontro. I Movimenti di bambini e adolescenti lavoratori, che hanno già compiuto 30 anni di storia in America Latina, hanno fatto sentire la loro voce per appoggiare la riforma costituzionale del Presidente Chavez e per rendere visibile una realtà che coinvolge ben 1.400.000 bambini e adolescenti in Venezuela. Anche al Parlamento Europeo di Bruxelles lo scorso 11 ottobre si è tenuto un incontro promosso per appoggiare la riforma costituzionale in Venezuela. di Cristiano Morsolin

26.10.2007 The Finnish Ministry of Labour has taken up severe means to address the imminent shortage of nurses, construction workers and transport industry employees in the country: it has launched a nation-wide campaign to attract skilled immigrants.

26.10.2007 The Indian cottonseed industry is marked by the highest proportion of child labour in its workforce, primarily girls. This blatant modern form of child exploitation is linked to the larger operating market forces and masks the social and legal responsibilities of the state, says a recent report.

26.10.2007 Intian kauppa- ja teollisuusministeri Kamal Nath syyttää eurooppalaisia kansalaisjärjestöjä Intian teollisuuden mustamaalaamisesta. Ministerin mukaan järjestöt levittävät väärää tietoa lapsityövoiman käytöstä Intian teollisuudessa.

25.10.2007 A Food for Work initiative by the World Food Programme (WFP) has helped rebuild more than 1,300 kms of rural roads and almost 9,000 kms of bridle paths in quake-affected North Pakistan. Rural roads and pathways connecting the mountainous terrain were destroyed by the 2005 earthquake, cutting people off from relief supplies and medical aid.

25.10.2007 Kerjäläisten aseman parantamiseksi on kuitenkin tartuttu toimiin, Marokon sosiaalisen kehityksen ministeri Abderrahim Harrouchi vakuuttaa.

25.10.2007 Buruh migran adalah pekerjaan yang digeluti orang karena pertimbangan minimnya kesempatan kerja yang ada di dalam negeri atau negara asal. Namun tak jarang buruh migran mengalami stigmatisasi sebagai sumber penyebaran HIV/AIDS.

25.10.2007 Udara yang terpolusi meningkatkan risiko penduduk miskin akan penyakit pernafasan. Di Kabupaten Bandung, Majalaya adalah salah satu kecamatan dengan angka penyakit infeksi saluran pernapasan atas (ISPA) serta penyakit TBC tertinggi.

23.10.2007 Euroopan unionin uusi suunnitelma laillisen maahanmuuton edistämiseksi antanee korkeasti koulutetuille muuttajille oikeuden liikkua EU-maasta toiseen, mikä kismittää monen jäsenmaan hallitusta.

23.10.2007 Concerned intellectuals in Delhi during the launch of a book, Alternative Economic Survey 2006-07, held the government’s neo-liberal policies responsible for ever widening rich-poor divide. Obsessed with what they describe as “growth fundamentalism”, they blamed the government for the sufferings of majority of the people in this country.

22.10.2007 Thousands are migrating to Bangladesh’s largest city, Dhaka, on a daily basis having lost earlier means of survival at their rural homes. Heavy rains and floods have impacted over 10 million people in Bangladesh.

22.10.2007 Jopa joka neljäs intialainen työssäkäyvä nainen jää kokonaan ilman palkkaa, kertoo Intian kolmas kansallinen perhe- ja terveysselvitys, National Family Health Survey.

19.10.2007 As the Indian state of Orissa reels under poverty and chronic hunger, five billion Indian rupees from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme have been siphoned off by corrupt state officials. Parshuram Rai, Director, Centre for Environment and Food Security, exposes the rot in the state bureaucracy.

18.10.2007 Una 'controfinanziaria' da 16,3 miliardi di euro che prevede l'armonizzazione delle rendite e minori uscite grazie alla riduzione dei costi della politica, alla chiusura dei Centri di permanenza temporanea, al riordino delle convenzioni sanitarie, alla soppressione del finanziamento di 30 milioni di euro per la preparazione del vertice del G8 del 2009 alla Maddalena, a riduzioni di stanziamenti previsti per alcune grandi opere come il Mose (170 milioni) e la Tav (185 milioni), all'eliminazione di 732 milioni euro per i contributi alle scuole private, e soprattutto, al taglio di 4 miliardi alla spesa militare e - in cambio - maggiori finanziamenti alla spesa sociale e contro la povertà. Sono i dati salienti della "Finanziaria per noi" presentata ieri alla sala stampa del Senato da Sbilanciamoci!, la campagna di 47 organizzazioni della società civile che da alcuni anni promuove una controfinanziaria per un’economia di giustizia e un nuovo modello di sviluppo fondato sui diritti, l’ambiente, la pace.

12.10.2007 According to the magazine of the Finnish Electrical workers’ union, Estonian electricians working at the construction site of the new Hilton hotel close to the Helsinki-Vantaa Airport were paid no more than five to six euros per hour. Similar offences have been claimed to have happened around Finland.

11.10.2007 October 10 marks one year since the Child Labour Act banned children from working as domestic servants. Yet millions of children continue to work in domestic and hazardous occupations and are vulnerable to abuse. Save The Children has called for concerted campaigns to save these lost childhoods.