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Family victims win compensation
03 February 2012
Yesterday, the families of three workers who were killed in Eurotex and Continental Garment factories as a result of two incidences last December, a fire and an accident in a lift, got compensation set at an historic level, based on "loss of earnings".
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Two Bangladeshi garment workers killed in a stampede
12 December 2011
Jeesimn Akter, 20 years old, and Taslima Akter, 22 years old, were killed last week in a stampede following a boiler explosion in the Eurotex garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. 62 workers were also badly injured.
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Chinese sweatshops: Making Toys without Joy
09 December 2011
"While toys bring joy to children, and while toy companies feast on their profits, let us not forget that toy workers in China, who make over 70% of the world's toys, continue to toil in coastal sweatshops miles away from their family members in inland provinces" says War on Want's partner Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) in their latest report. They campaign for the improvement of Chinese workers' rights.
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112 labour rights organisations call for legislation threatening workers’ rights to be withdrawn in Malaysia
08 December 2011
112 labour organizations, amongst them the Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC) and War on Want, are calling on the Malaysian government to scrap a new Employment Act which proposes to make changes to the way in which labour is contracted out. The groups have denounced the changes as unconstitutional and detrimental to workers' rights and trade unions. The Bill has already been approved by the Malaysian House of Representatives, but still needs to be passed by the Senate and receive royal assent in order to come into effect.
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CODEMUH calls for decent work principles and to put an end to impunity!
02 December 2011
In November, the Honduran Women's Collective (CODEMUH), War on Want's long term partner supporting women maquila workers in Honduras, launched a campaign to raise awareness among the Honduran population of the occupational health problems endured by sweatshop workers and to strengthen women workers' organizational skills enabling them to stand up for their rights.
Read more: CODEMUH calls for decent work principles and to put an end to impunity!
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Bangladeshi garment workers supporting UK strike
01 December 2011
Several hundred garment workers took part in a solidarity rally in Dhaka (Bangladesh) organised by War on Want's partner, the National Garment Workers Federation (NGWF), in support of trade unions and workers in the UK taking industrial action.
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International Food Sovereignty Day: 5 December 2011
01 December 2011
La Via Campesina is calling for an international food sovereignty day of mass actions on 5 December 2011. The international network is calling on all farmers, workers and the landless and all social movements to demand:
- Genuine agrarian reform for food sovereignty
- Agro ecological revolution as the solution to climate change
- Restructuring of the entire food system
- Full and equal participation of women in the new food system and in the society as a whole
- Building of a food system based on human needs
- End to multinational control of our genetic resources
- Seed sovereignty where seed can adapt and mitigate climate change
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Support the trade unions on 30 November!
22 November 2011
On 30 November millions of public sector workers – including nurses, teachers, local government and care workers – will take industrial action across the UK for pensions justice and against the government's austerity programme. War on Want is urging its supporters to add their voices in support of workers' rights and public services.
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G20 leaders still not leading
10 November 2011
As the global economy lurches from crisis to crisis, driven by skittish markets, the G20 met last week in Cannes in southern France. The self-appointed group has given itself the task of sorting out the financial crisis, yet despite the severity of the situation they showed themselves to be lacking in new ideas.
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Food is not a business, but a human right
03 November 2011
Read the Inter Press Service interview with War on Want's partner in Brazil, the Landless Workers Movement (MST), outlining the role of small-scale producers and rural women in achieving food security and sovereignty. Read the interview here
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