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04/08/2018
From Cobalt to Tungsten: How Electric Cars and Smartphones Are Sparking a New Kind of Gold Rush
04/08/2018
Brazil: Workers’ Party Presents Lula’s 5-Point Govt Program
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The PT said it will formalize Saturday at its National Convention the presidential candidacy of former leftist president Lula.
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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. | Photo: Twitter / @ptbrasil
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4 August 2018 (teleSUR)* — Brazil’s Workers’Party (PT) presented former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s five-point government program for re-election as the party also said it will formalize Saturday [4 August 2018] at its National Convention, in the city of Sao Paulo the presidential candidacy of the former leftist president, who has been unjustly imprisoned since April 7.
04/08/2018
Brazil: Well Educated, Elites Flee As Poor Bear The Brunt of Violence, Austerity
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3 August 2018 (teleSUR)* — “I’m totally freaked out by what’s happening, especially here in Rio,” said 40-year-old soap opera star and father of three, Thiago Lacerda.
Brazil’s 2019 budget may result in the end of educational grants for graduate students in the scientific fields. | Photo: Portal.MEC.gov.br/
In recent years, Brazil’s wealthy along with its highly-educated University graduates, doctors, lawyers, even TV and film stars, have been fleeing the South American country to places such as Portugal, Miami and Orlando (in United States) in search of stability as the poor continue to bear the brunt of the ongoing political and economic crisis.
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04/08/2018
Protecting Vulnerable People in Eastern DR Congo from New Ebola Virus Outbreak Will Be “Very, Very Complex” Due the Ongoing Conflict There – WHO
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Protecting vulnerable people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from the latest Ebola Virus outbreak is going to be “very, very complex”, given the huge logistical challenges and ongoing conflict there, the World Health Organization (WHO) on 3 August 2018 said.
04/08/2018
Africa Is on the Right Path to Eradicate Plastics
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UN Environment* — The ongoing global movement for eliminating plastics is gaining momentum in Africa. Several countries are now taking steps to eliminate the production and distribution of single-use plastics, some adopting a total ban on the production and use of plastic bags.
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Photo by James Wakibia | From UN Environment.
04/08/2018
Israel: An American-Russian Protectorate?
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By Chandra Muzaffar – TRANSCEND Media Service*
It is partly because the mainstream Western media persists with its hysteria on Trump’s failure to stand up to Putin on alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US Presidential Election that other aspects of the meeting between the two men in Helsinki have yet to come to the fore. One of them is about the position that the two adopted on Israel.
Chandra Muzaffar
Some sections of the Zionist-linked media in particular are suggesting that as a result of the Helsinki Summit, Israel has now become “a joint American-Russian protectorate”.
The media conference that Trump and Putin addressed, according to these sources, underscored this. There is absolutely no truth to this claim.
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04/08/2018
What Does Zero-Tolerance to Sexual Harassment Look Like?
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3 August 2018 (UN Women)* – What does zero-tolerance to sexual harassment look like? Feminists, gender experts and UN officials came together to discuss promising practices to curb sexual harassment and assault in a UN Women-organized “Feminist Think Space” from 30 to 31 July in New York.
04/08/2018
Does Monsanto’s Roundup Cause Cancer? Trial Highlights the Difficulty of Proving a Link
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3 August 2018 (The Conversation)* – Does glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used weedkiller Roundup, cause non-Hodgkin lymphoma? This question is at issue now in a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court. Hundreds more claims have been cleared to proceed in a federal multi-district lawsuit.
- Guilty or innocent? Mike Mozart, CC BY | From The Conversation.
Much of this litigation is based on a 2015 determination by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, that glyphosate is a probable human carcinogen. This report has come under heavy criticism, which is not surprising because there’s a lot of money at stake.
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04/08/2018
BRICS Countries Committed to Promote Social Dialogue, Easier Access to Decent Work for Youth, Faster Progress Towards Gender Equality at Work, and Universal Social Security Systems
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ILO chief, Guy Ryder, highlights the major contribution BRICS countries can make to social dialogue, social protection, gender equality and youth employment.
ILO Director-General at the summit of the Labour and Employment Ministers Meeting of the BRICS countries
DURBAN, 3 August 2018 (ILO)* – ILO Director-General Guy Ryder has welcomed the joint Declaration issued by Labour and Employment Ministers of the BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – at their fourth summit in the Republic of South Africa.
The Declaration commits BRICS countries to promote social dialogue between governments and the social partners – employers’ and workers’ organizations in order to respond to the challenges brought by the Future of Work and digitalization.
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04/08/2018
Arrests of Women’s Rights Activists Put Saudi Arabia on the Wrong Side of History
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From Indonesia to Saudi Arabia, Muslim women’s movements for equality are increasingly interconnected – and unstoppable.
**A Saudi woman wearing a traditional niqab. |
3 August 2018 (openDemocracy)* – Saudi Arabia’s ongoing crackdown on women’s rights activists undermines Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s own reform agenda.
It reveals a disconnect between this young leader who styles himself as a reformist and a women’s rights advocateand the new reality in the Muslim world today.
Increasingly, Muslim women are reclaiming an Islam that has long espoused equality, justice and freedom for all.
These women are leading change from within their communities.
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