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Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Apr 20, 2009	The Secret Summit
Reflections of Fidel (Taken from CubaDebate) WHILE neither represented at nor excommunicated from the Port of Spain Summit we were able to find out what has been discussed there up until today. We were led to fully expect that the meeting would not be private, but the stage...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Apr 12, 2009	Nazi camps: Hell on earth
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik) - On April 9, 1945, the inmates of the Buchenwald death camp near Weimar, Germany, sent a radio message to inform the Allies that the Nazis were forcing them to evacuate the camp, and to request assistance. After they received promises...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Oct 24, 2008	Capitalist alienation
By BÜLENT KENEŞ: Every day hundreds of analysts comment on the global economic storm triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis, which is gradually crippling all world economies. I will not delve into a technical commentary, as I am no expert on the issue. However, I am well...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Jul 23, 2008	The National Congress of Trade Unions of The Bahamas (NCTUB) Supports The Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) - Designed to Open Up Trade Between ACP Countries (Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific) and The European Union
Major labor union supports EPA: By JASMIN BONIMY, Guardian Staff Reporter - Nassau, Bahamas: One of the nation's top umbrella trade unions has thrown its support behind the economic partnership agreement (EPA) while simultaneously calling for 17 recommendations in preparation for the...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Jun 2, 2008	The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) With The European Union: "... holds no benefits for The Bahamas"
Union boss weighs in on EPA proposal: By KEVA LIGHTBOURNE, NG Senior Reporter - Nassau, Bahamas: Less than a week after scores of Bahamians participated in a peaceful demonstration in the city's center in protest of the government's proposed signing of the Economic Partnership Agreement...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Apr 2, 2008	The Great European Union (EU) Betrayal
An erosion of democracy:- By The Nassau Institute - Nassau, Bahamas: The new European Union treaty approved at a summit of member states in Lisbon in October, 2007, has attracted fierce opposition in Britain. It has been labeled "the great EU betrayal". The controversy is as much...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Mar 13, 2008	The Bahamas is one of the strongest advocates of human rights in the western hemisphere and has a "commendable record."
U.S. official lauds Bahamas as strong human rights advocate: By ROGAN M. SMITH, Guardian Senior Reporter - Nassau, Bahamas: A recently released U.S. report on human rights in The Bahamas expressed serious concern about complaints of police and prison guard abuse, delays in court trials,...... [view]

Posted By: julitasari Posted On: Oct 24, 2007	I Suffer for Your Shoes: a Misery Behind Shoes
By: Liza Desylanhi These marginal children expressed fate of the Indonesia child-workers through documentary movies. Early of July, those movies were played on the Festival Anak Pinggiran. “Brother, your shoes caused my suffering, actually!“ said a child while pointing to the pair of...... [view]

Posted By: evolution Posted On: Jun 23, 2007	CHILD LABOR
I am not sure where to begin. I am not sure if what I say will even make a difference, and if it does, I will not worry about the credit I get, but more so the credit that will benefit the world. I may be the only one who notices this, but then again I may be the millionth. The worlds children...... [view]

Posted By: zephyr Posted On: Jun 1, 2007	Bahamas: Another Labour Day Another Holiday Indeed...
Another Labour Day: Bahama Journal Editorial - Nassau, Bahamas: Another Labour Day has come, and as usual it will signify little more than another holiday for this nation’s tens of thousands of workers. Some will use the occasion to get some deserved rest and respite from their toils....... [view]

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SCREAM - Stop Child Labour ! Supporting Children's Rights through Education, the Arts and the Media (trabajo infantil, le travail des enfants)
Submitted By: camilla Website: http://www.ilo.org/ipec/Campaignandadvocacy/Scream/index.htm Phone: 0041 22 799 7731 E-mail: lay@ilo.org	Vision: Today there are 218 million boys and girls around the world who are exploited, many are treated as slaves, and put in danger. Together with poverty alleviation, education is a front line weapon in the International...... [view]

Deconstructing Poverty: Labor Market Informalization, Income Volatility and Economic Insecurity in Bolivia and Ecuador

Submitted By:   lulukabrasil
Author Name:  Lourdes Beneria and Maria S. Floro
Published:  0000-00-00

Description: This paper examines the nature of current labor market informalization and its links with poverty and household survival. It explores conceptually the dynamics of informality and demonstrates the interconnectedness of job precariousness, vulnerability and gender relations. The paper also examines empirically, using Bolivia and Ecuador households and individual workers sample data collected in 2002, the critical role of women informal workers in household maintenance and social reproduction. The persistence of poverty in the developing world and the increase in the importance of the informal economy has typified socio-economic trends during the past three decades. Hence, the need to re-conceptualize the informal economy and its significance for sustainable growth and human welfare. Likewise, we need a better understanding of the different forms that economic insecurity takes in order to rethink issues of distribution and social policy related to different vulnerable groups. In this sense, gender divisions represent an important dimension in the distribution of the burden of poverty and economic insecurity. Socially ascribed positions of workers affect their vulnerability; thus this paper investigates the degrees of informality and the extent of income volatility among home-based workers in Bolivia and Ecuador. The empirical section is based on the 2002 sample survey data of poor urban households engaged in home-based work collected in Bolivia and Ecuador as part of a four-country research project that attempts to understand the roles of financial and labor resources in the coping strategies of urban poor households as their countries undergo rapid global market integration, financial crises and economic restructuring .The survey instrument is comprehensive and involves questions on household and community characteristics as well as informal employment, savings, assets, credit, and participation in household decision making. It also attempts to take into account the distinct needs of women and men in poor households, their multiple roles and specific concerns by collecting separate head and spouse data on employment, savings, credit and household decision making.
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English SCREAM Education Pack

Submitted By:   camilla
Author Name:  IPEC/ILO
Published:  0000-00-00

Website:  http://learning.itcilo.org/ilo/ipec/scream/pack_en/education_pack3.html
  Description:   Lesson Plans for Education on Child Labour, using a methodology incorporating the arts and the media which encourages ownership of projects, and which are used in turn to educate the community in which the children live. Also available in other languages from http://www.ilo.org/ipec/Campaignandadvocacy/Scream/SCREAMresources/lang--en/index.htm
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TakingITGlobal: Inspire, Inform, Involve

The Secret Summit

Nazi camps: Hell on earth

Capitalist alienation

The National Congress of Trade Unions of The Bahamas (NCTUB) Supports The Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) - Designed to Open Up Trade Between ACP Countries (Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific) and The European Union

The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) With The European Union: "... holds no benefits for The Bahamas"

The Great European Union (EU) Betrayal

The Bahamas is one of the strongest advocates of human rights in the western hemisphere and has a "commendable record."

I Suffer for Your Shoes: a Misery Behind Shoes

CHILD LABOR

Bahamas: Another Labour Day Another Holiday Indeed...

SCREAM - Stop Child Labour ! Supporting Children's Rights through Education, the Arts and the Media (trabajo infantil, le travail des enfants)

Deconstructing Poverty: Labor Market Informalization, Income Volatility and Economic Insecurity in Bolivia and Ecuador

English SCREAM Education Pack

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