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“This is an unprecedented initiative closely involving the social partners in the preparation of a major sporting event like the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games.” These were the words of C...
Madagascar is the fifth poorest country in the world, yet it accounts for almost 40 per cent of global production of one of the most sought-after precious stones: sapphire. Several deposits disco...
As Venezuela's 28 July presidential election approaches, expectations are growing. After two and a half decades of Chavista rule, the possibility of political change is palpable. In the midst of ...
https://www.equaltimes.org/venezuela-s-presidential-elections
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Looking over the turquoise Mediterranean Sea, the beach at the tip of Bagnoli, hugged by cliffs in westernmost Naples, should be a picture of tranquillity. It is not. “We cannot swim because ...
The growing use of algorithmic management tools has led to profound changes in labour relations. These systems, based on artificial intelligence (AI), are deployed not only to increase productivi...
“They came armed with batons and sticks with the intention of driving out the street vendors,” says Maya Gurung, a street vendor from Kathmandu, who serves as the president of the Nepal Stree...
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Citizens and trade unions in Europe continue to fight against the methods employed by the American company Tesla. While plans to expand the company's German production site at Grünheide, near Be...
https://www.equaltimes.org/i-ll-stay-on-strike-for-months-or
As the economy becomes increasingly digital, Latin American youth find themselves at a crossroads marked by economic and social contrasts. Millennials and Generation Z, representatives of an ever...
https://www.equaltimes.org/online-but-unemployed-the-economic
While Greece is known as the birthplace of democracy, more recently, it has also come to be known as a kind of policy laboratory for the European Union. No other country has suffered so directly ...
It was still dawn on 5 January 2024 when an explosion tore through the early morning silence of Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus. A bomb shattered the windows of the small office of KISA, an organi...
https://www.equaltimes.org/in-cyprus-violence-against-asylum
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Bahar works as a factory operator on Türkiye's Aegean coast. The married mother of three previously had a good friendship with the man who became her harasser, a fellow employee at her factory. ...
Between 2021 and 2024, Senegal was plunged into persistent political, economic and social crises. It was an almost unprecedented situation in a country once considered to be a bastion of democrac...
https://www.equaltimes.org/senegal-s-crisis-tested-democracy
“We are responsible for climate change, which imposes mortality costs on poor countries. I estimate these costs at US$500 billion a year,” says Esther Duflo, winner of the Nobel Prize in Econ...