Oppression & Poverty
Global Unemployment Remains at Historic High Despite Strong Economic Growth
International Labour Organization
Thursday 25 January 2007
Modest gains in reducing working poverty.
Geneva - The number of people unemployed worldwide remained at an historical high in 2006 despite strong global economic growth, the International Labour Office (ILO) said in its annual Global Employment Trends (Note 1) released today.
full article here.
The new face of poverty
Virginia Galt, Globe and Mail Update
Posted AT 11:09 AM EST on 30/01/07
In spite of their higher education levels, new immigrants to Canada are worse off now than they were in the 1990s, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday. In 2002, low-income rates among immigrants during their first full year in Canada were 3.5 times higher than those of Canadian-born people. By 2004, the rate had eased only slightly, to 3.2 times higher, Statscan reported.
full article here.
Western bankers and lawyers 'rob Africa of $150bn every year'
Nick Mathiason in Nairobi, The Observer
Sunday January 21, 2007
Africa kept destitute as western firms shift cash to tax havens
More than $150bn a year is looted from Africa through tax avoidance by giant corporations and capital flight using 'a pinstripe infrastructure' of western banks, lawyers and accountants, according to the African Union.
full article here.
U.S. in Afghanistan Means Harsher Oppression for Women
Revolutionary Worker #1219, posted at rwor.org
November 16, 2003
November 3, 2003. A World to Win News Service. Shortly after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell self- righteously declared, "The rights of the women of Afghanistan are not negotiable." Life in Afghanistan for women today shows that this was just a lie to justify the crime the U.S. was about to commit.
Women's lives did not become better after the U.S. invasion. They have become worse. This is one of the worst periods in the country's history for females.
full article here.
Japanese Minister Wants "Birth-Giving Machines," aka Women, to Have More Babies
By Justin McCurry, The Guardian UK
Monday 29 January 2007
Japan's health minister did nothing to endear himself to female voters over the weekend when he described women as "birth-giving machines" and implored them to "do their best" to halt the country's declining birthrate.
full article here.
