Equal Times

14 September 2017

Show me the money: the fight for funding and accountability for women’s rights

Spogmay Ahmed: Aid donors, governments and the United Nations have made many commitments to gender equality. Their actions have been less impressive.Read the full article

5 September 2017

Labour

Want to see trade union innovation in practice? Look to central and eastern Europe

Magdalena Bernaciak: “The economic downturn served as a catalyst for increased union mobilisation in the post-communist region.”Read the full article

8 August 2017

Human rights

“Hope is a commodity that is in short supply for young Palestinians”

Kamel Hawwash: The number of unemployed Palestinians totalled 361,000 in 2016, the Palestinian Central Bureau for Statistics said, rising from 21.7 per cent in 2007 to 26.9 per cent in 2016.Read the full article

14 July 2017

Human rights

Securing indigenous rights through data

Pamela Leiva Jaquelin: Indigenous Navigator: free online tools to monitor indigenous rights.Read the full article

16 June 2017

Labour

Gulf states’ slow march toward domestic workers’ rights

Rothna Begum: "Gulf states like Oman, UAE, and Qatar are introducing reforms for domestic workers that are only improvements on paper."Read the full article

2 June 2017

Environment

Investing in climate action is an imperative to secure jobs

Sharan Burrow: "Marginalising a nation, placing risk on responsible companies and constraining sustainable jobs for American workers is a high price to pay."Read the full article

8 May 2017

Politics & economy

The EU must continue engaging with Turkey

Gökay Sofuoglu: "Populist and unreflecting anti-Turkey positions will only result in strengthening non-democratic forces within Ankara’s political administration."Read the full article

5 May 2017

Politics & economy

I raise my voice: Gustavo Dudamel’s open letter to the Venezuelan government

Gustavo Dudamel: ’’Nothing justifies bloodshed. We must stop ignoring the just cry of the people suffocated by an intolerable crisis.’’Read the full article

21 April 2017

Politics & economy

This Saturday, March for Science!

Equal Times Newsdesk: When the global street can make a differenceRead the full article

4 April 2017

Politics & economy

One year after the Panama Papers, tax evasion in Europe is still a pressing issue

Lora Verheecke: European countries are reluctant to put an end to shell companies, while the banks, the central players in the creation of these shadowy structures, have scarcely been troubled.Read the full article

23 March 2017

Labour

Working women deserve tax justice

Sharan Burrow: Investing 2 per cent of GDP in the care economy in just seven countries would create over 21 million jobs.Read the full article

21 March 2017

Labour

To end slavery, we must understand its gender aspects

Aidan McQuade: Ending forced child marriage is critical to advancing and promoting the rights of women and girls, and hence in ending slavery.Read the full article

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