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How to choose your chocolate this Halloween
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How to choose your chocolate this Halloween

With Halloween just around the corner, you might be picking up some spooky treats during your next trip to the grocery store. The Washington Post asked experts how consumers can make more socially and environmentally conscious candy choices for this year’s festivities. Learn about the impact of chocolate Cocoa and palm oil are two of…

Ex-cop jailed one year after raping, sex-trafficking Lagos teenager
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Ex-cop jailed one year after raping, sex-trafficking Lagos teenager

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has sentenced a retired policeman, Ariwayo Oloyede, aka Oyinbo, to one-year imprisonment for human trafficking. The ex-police officer was convicted alongside a Burkina Faso-based Nigerian, Christian Owanebi, who was handed seven years jail for the same offence by Justice Abimbola Awogboro. Justice Awogboro sentenced them after pronouncing them…

US Department of Labor announces new reports, tools in global effort to end child, forced labor
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US Department of Labor announces new reports, tools in global effort to end child, forced labor

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has announced updated and new tools designed to eliminate child and forced labor worldwide by detailing the scope and potential sources of the problems, and providing guidance to those combating them. The department’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs has published the 10th edition of its “List of Goods…

Resolve issue of labour shortage, workers' rights – The Sun daily
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Resolve issue of labour shortage, workers' rights – The Sun daily

THERE has been a great hue and cry among employers and politicians on the shortage of foreign labour in Malaysia. The country’s gross domestic product growth has been affected due to the lack of capacity to meet excess global demands for electrical and electronic goods and shortage of workers in the palm oil and construction…

Movie Review: The Woman King: Daring documentation of a dark era
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Movie Review: The Woman King: Daring documentation of a dark era

Movie title: The Woman King Release Date: 16 September 2022 Running time: 2 hours 14 minutes. Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood Cast: Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim, John Boyega, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Adrienne Warren, Jayme Lawson, Masali Baduza, Angélique Kidjo, Jimmy Odukoya, Thando Dlomo, Jordan Bolger, Zozibini Tunzi, Makgotso M, Siv Ngesi The devastating…

Exclusive – Goodyear settles labour abuse claims with workers at Malaysian factory
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Exclusive – Goodyear settles labour abuse claims with workers at Malaysian factory

By Mei Mei Chu and A. Ananthalakshmi KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co has reached an agreement to settle a labour dispute at its Malaysian factory with migrant workers who alleged unpaid wages and benefits, the company and five former workers told Reuters. Goodyear, one of the world’s largest tire makers, declined…

All rural workers deserve social protection coverage: New ILO report – Saudi Gazette
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All rural workers deserve social protection coverage: New ILO report – Saudi Gazette

GENEVA — Social protection for rural workers “remains a dream”, according to a report launched in Geneva on Thursday by the Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV), part of the UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO). This is of particular concern for those in precarious work conditions, including informal, casual, temporary and subcontracted workers and day laborers who…

Wildlife and drug trafficking, terrorism, and human security
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Wildlife and drug trafficking, terrorism, and human security

The planet is experiencing alarming levels of species loss caused in large part by intensified poaching stimulated by a greatly expanding demand for animals, plants, and wildlife products. The rate of species extinction, now as much as 1,000 times the historical average and the worst since the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, deserves…