Youth Shoura Council tackles unemployment (Yemen Times Online) SANA’A, Aug. 26 — In tandem with government efforts to tackle youth unemployment, Yemen’s Youth Shoura (Consultative) Council, or YCC, held a three-day session at the Shoura Council to discuss a 2006 strategy report presented by the Civil Services Ministry. |
Malaysia National Consultation on the ASEAN Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers (Aliran Online) 1. As representatives of civil society organizations and trade unions, we have gathered in Shah Alam, Selangor, on August 13-14, 2008 to conduct this National Consultation on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers under the auspices of the Task Force on ASEAN Migrant Workers mechanism. |
Social workers abandoning profession due to heavy caseloads (Malta Star) Social workers in Malta are overloaded with cases, receive relatively low salaries, have inadequate support services, and little hopes of career progression – these are some of the factors which force many of them to quit the profession and work elsewhere. |
Should Govts chalk out emergency plan to meet future water crisis? (Central Chronicle) Should Indians settle abroad? Mansi Bhui: 'Janni Janmabhumisha Sargadapi Gariyasi Mata' means that our motherland is our real mother. As America is for Americans, Russia for Russians so is India for the Indians, the real motherland Bharat. |
Disabled in a dilemma over inconvenient travel environment (The Star) There is no mercy out there, declared by P. Parimala when asked to describe the efficiency of the transportation system in the Klang Valley. |
The social situation in Lebanon and the prospects for improvement (The Daily Star Lebannon) Lebanon faces significant challenges on the social and developmental fronts. The initial priority in this case is to provide Lebanese citizens with the minimum level of social care and social security.The government spending on social services has declined from 21 percent of GDP in 2004 to 8 percent in 2005. |
Surely, the government can do more for disabled people (The Borneo Post) BLIND musician Alfred Ho was on the line with me last Friday. He called to say his piece on a news report that “only 50 disabled people have applied for the 10,000 jobs made available in the public sector.” |
Employer to illegal immigrants: Use eHarmony to find U.S. spouse (Orange County Register) Indicted owners of local agency also told illegal workers to go to Seal Beach Leisure World to find someone to marry. |
Africa: Escaping the Poverty Trap (AllAfrica.com) What do they have in common - the landless widow with a deaf son in Bangladesh, the 12-year-old miner in Kyrgyztan, the Ugandan farming couple with 12 children and the South African domestic worker who loses her home when her husband dies and her job when she breaks a leg? |
Making a Killing (Bulatlat.com) The Military and the Monetary, they get together whenever they think its necessary, they've turned our brothers and sisters into mercenaries, they are turning the planet, into a cemetery (Gil Scott-Heron) BY AZIZ CHOUDRY GATT Watchdog Contributed to Bulatlat Vol. VIII, No. 28, August 17-23, 2008 read more |