Africa

A vigorous push on education is key to plans by the global union alliance SIGTUR
A vigorous push on education is key to plans by the global union alliance SIGTUR to broaden the fight against multinational companies over retrograde measures including the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement (TPPA)(TPPA)
 
The 2013 10th SIGTUR congress in Australia reaffirmed worker education as a focus in raising the awareness of unions and workers across 23 southern hemisphere countries on how they can develop support networks to pressure corporations and governments taking anti-worker actions.
At the time of publication, the death toll stands at 5444 out of a reported 15319 cases, but many more have gone undetected.
 
Since the World Health Organisation (WHO) first brought the world’s attention to the latest and most deadly outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in March 2014, the West African nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have all been devastated by the disease.
 
At the time of publication, the death toll stands at 5444 out of a reported 15319 cases, but many more have gone undetected.
 
The scale of this on-going tragedy was avoidable. The response of the international community could have been more swift and decisive.
 
And as a previous Equal Times piece states, the pre-existing critical shortage of healthcare workers in these countries has made a crisis a catastrophe.
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