Equal Times

21 September 2017

Why are there so few public monuments of women in the UK?

Statistics compiled by the women’s rights campaigner and journalist Caroline Criada-Perez from the database of the Public Monuments & Sculpture Association found there are 925 statues in the UK. However, only 158 of them are stand-alone statues of [...]Read the full article

As voters head to the polls, have mainstream politicians overlooked Germany's working poor?

20 September 2017

Politics & economy

As voters head to the polls, have mainstream politicians overlooked Germany’s working poor?

Germany’s low unemployment rate hides another reality: that of the working poor. The issue provides fertile ground for the far right, just days before the legislative elections.Read the full article

18 September 2017

Human rights

Sex worker by trade: how far do human rights go?

The campaign for the recognition of sex work raises a human rights dilemma: the right to work versus the fight for gender equality.Read the full article

15 September 2017

Labour

Thousands of outraged “slackers” protest against Macron’s labour law reforms

“Sexist reforms”, “a gift for the bosses”, “the destabilisation of French society”… why did the French take to the streets in their thousands to oppose the reform of their labour law?Read the full article

“Have you seen her?” The complex story of Washington DC's missing girls

14 September 2017

Human rights

“Have you seen her?” The complex story of Washington DC’s missing girls

National crime statistics show that in 2016, African-Americans made up 38 per cent of missing Americans under the age of 18, despite only making up about 15 per cent of the nation’s youth population.Read the full article

11 September 2017

Labour

Cheap labour versus robots, who will sew the clothes of the future?

According to companies like Softwear Automation, in the not too distant future, it will work out even cheaper to invest in technology than to hire the workers with the lowest wages on the [...]Read the full article

The question holding Argentina in suspense: Where is Santiago Maldonado?

8 September 2017

Human rights

The question holding Argentina in suspense: Where is Santiago Maldonado?

The disappearance of a young activist has left thousands of Argentinians in suspense and has revived memories of the military dictatorshipRead the full article

7 September 2017

Labour

Despite migration ban, Indonesian domestic workers still face forced labour and abuses in the Gulf

Government statistics show that 39 Indonesians died in the Middle East and Africa between January and July 2017 – that’s one person every four days.Read the full article

Cambodia's fragile democracy rocked by newspaper closure and ‘treason' arrest

6 September 2017

Human rights

Cambodia’s fragile democracy rocked by newspaper closure and ‘treason’ arrest

“The power to tax is the power to destroy. And after 24 years and 15 days, the Cambodian government has destroyed The Cambodia Daily.”Read the full article

The battle for Poland's Bialowieza Forest gathers pace, despite government intransigence

5 September 2017

Environment

The battle for Poland’s Bialowieza Forest gathers pace, despite government intransigence

Opponents contend that what the government calls “indispensable sanitary loggings” are a cover-up for the commercial logging of old trees, not only of spruces.Read the full article

Can union organising help save Nigeria's textile industry?

1 September 2017

Labour

Can union organising help save Nigeria’s textile industry?

“The ascendancy of neoliberalism in the 1990s as the framework in which economic policy is set [led to] market liberalisation and economic deregulation, with attendant consequences for local industries, particularly the textile and garment [...]Read the full article

The families of Syria's disappeared face blackmail with impunity

30 August 2017

Human rights

The families of Syria’s disappeared face blackmail with impunity

Thousands of families have become the victims of a macabre black market, ruining themselves to find signs of life of loved ones who have been detained, a form of pressure used by the Syrian [...]Read the full article

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