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IPS Inter Press Service - Politics - Apr 30, 2007
LIMA, Apr 30 (IPS) - Peru’s miners began an indefinite strike Monday demanding respect for labour rights. Their main complaint is against the outsourcing of jobs, as 80 percent of the 100,000 workers in the mining …
IPS Inter Press Service - Development - Apr 30, 2007
LA PAZ, Apr 30 (IPS) - The May 1 Labour Day marches in the Bolivian capital were a memorable sight two decades ago, a real celebration of workers' unity, led by thousands of helmeted miners carrying their drills. But …
IPS Inter Press Service - Culture, Religion, Sport - Apr 30, 2007
JOHANNESBURG, Apr 30 (IPS) - As activists focus on the challenges facing workers this May Day (May 1), Martha Moside is calling for attention to be paid to the situation of female subsistence farmers in South Africa.
IPS Inter Press Service - Apr 30, 2007
BARQUISIMETO, Venezuela, Apr 30 (IPS) - Progressive social and political movements joined the governments of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) in their aim to bring about integration based on …
IPS Inter Press Service - Apr 30, 2007
NAIROBI, Apr 30 (IPS) - With working conditions around the world set to be placed in the spotlight on May Day (May 1), Emily Mugo has an axe to grind about her place of employment -- in one of Kenya's Export Processing …
IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights - Apr 30, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 30 (IPS) - Saturday marked the third anniversary of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. On Apr. 28, 2004 CBS broadcast the first graphic photos of torture inside of the U.S.-run prison in Iraq on its 60 …
IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights - Apr 30, 2007
KABUL, Apr 30 (IPS) - Angry protests have erupted in two Afghan provinces against killings of civilians in military operations by coalition troops on Taliban targets.
IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights - Apr 30, 2007
NEW YORK, Apr 30 (IPS) - On a blazing spring day in New York's financial district, as executives hurry past in suits and ties, a handful of protestors position themselves directly in front of the headquarters of …
IPS Inter Press Service - Apr 30, 2007
GEORGETOWN, Apr 30 (IPS) - On Jun. 20, Caribbean leaders will sit down with George W. Bush for the first full summit meeting with a U.S. president in a decade, and from all indications, they have a plethora of issues …
IPS Inter Press Service - Development - Apr 30, 2007
HAVANA, Apr 30 (IPS) - Close to one of the busiest crossroads in the Cuban capital, but peaceful nonetheless, the non-governmental Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Centre (CMLK) has been active in Cuban society for …