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Protest march of women workers for higher wages, and against male domination in trade union politics in tea plantations at Munnar in southern Indian state of Kerala. Credit: K.S. Harikrishnan/IPS
The 47-year-old tea labourer in the Idukki district of the southern state of Kerala, along with 6,000 other ill- educated women labourers held protests as they said they had been exploited for years and were now ready for their rights.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 18 November 2015 urged United Nations Member States to make available all information they may have in their possession related to the circumstances and conditions of the crash that killed Dag Hammarskjöld while he was serving as UN chief more than 50 years ago.
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Portrait of former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld. UN Photo/JO (file)
To reap a demographic dividend, countries must empower, educate and employ their young people. Photo: PANDI/ UNFPA Colombia
Norway has ratified the 2014 Protocol to the 1930 International Labour Organization (ILO) Forced Labour Convention, as part of a renewed global effort to eradicate modern slavery.
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Geneva, 18 November 2015 (ILO)* – Norway has become the second country, after Niger, to ratify the Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention .
A new report packed with best practice climate policies from across the world was released on 18 November 2015 by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), revealing a wealth of existing opportunities to immediately scale up reductions in greenhouse gas emissions while powering up ambition to keep the global average temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius.
“Science tells us that there is one path for us to be able to have a stable planet and a safe stable economy, and that is to get onto a below 2 degree path – that is fundamental – and policy is actually following science as it should,” said Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, speaking to reporters in Bonn, Germany.
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