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Women’s participation in the workforce has hugely declined over the period 2004-05 to 2018-19. The work participation rate (WPR) of women in the 15-59 age group has declined by 19.2 percent over this period, and there is a nearly 50 percentage point gap between males and female WPRs.
India’s 96 million informal workers fight gender bias and pay gaps. An examination of the situation in the textiles and garments sector, where many women workers put in over 12 hours a day, six days a week, but do not have the negotiating power to demand better wages or working conditions.
Experts warn: failure to rapidly ‘vaccinate the world’ may lead to Covid-19 mutations proliferating widely enough to make a majority of first-generation vaccines ineffective; Global billionaire wealth surged $4 trillion during pandemic, while cost of vaccinating the world is only $141.2 billion.
Let’s actually tax the rich?; New Study: ultra-wealthy are paying even less taxes than you think; To help fund Covid recovery and redress inequality, Warren unveils wealth tax on ‘ultra-millionaires’ and billionaires.
The United States government is able to impose its will on all the world’s countries, including the strongest imperialist countries of the Global North. What is the source of this seemingly impregnable power? Which of course leads to the next question: How long can it last?
The second round of the Ecuadorian election between the candidate of the pro-Correa citizen revolution Arauz and the banker Lasso is approaching, and things are accelerating in the axis formed by Lenin Moreno and the United States, with its intelligence services at the forefront.
An exploration of the reconstruction of Haiti after 2010, focussed mainly on the the destruction of peasant farming, to the benefit of western corporations and their allies in Haiti.
The Saudi offer of a ceasefire in Yemen on 22 March was an acknowledgement by Riyadh and its backers in Washington that they had lost the war.
Significant developments are underway in Turkey. Most ominously, the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has moved toward the banning of one of the country’s main opposition parties, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).
The loss of soil organic matter and the corresponding massive carbon relocation to the atmosphere (as carbon dioxide) constitutes the soil carbon rift. It ultimately leads to severe degradation of soil. It is estimated that about one-third of the world’s soils have become significantly degraded.
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