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Two Years After Haiti’s Earthquake, Women Are Still Shattered by Sexual...
Every morning Marie Josée prays with her colleagues before starting their work at around 6.30am. Photo: Sophia Paris/UNDP via flickr Cross-posted from The Nation It’s been two years since hell paid...
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Banana Republic Legacy Thrives in Today’s Latin America
Photo: STITCH via Labor Is Not a Commodity (laborrightsblog.typepad.com) Cross-posted from In These Times. The term “banana republic” has become a cliche to describe economic imperialism throughout...
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Obama’s Universal Preschool Plan: As Good as It Sounds?
President Obama promises to strengthen early childhood education, but will he follow through with funding? (Children's Bureau Centennial / Flickr / Creative Commons) Originally posted at In These Times...
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All Work and No Pay: Recognizing Women’s Unpaid Labor in the Global South
A Pokot woman with her child, tending to an aloe vera crop. Women around the world spend a great deal of time on unpaid care work every day, but such work often remains invisible. (Des...
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What India’s Sex Workers Want: Power, Not Rescue
Originally published at In These Times Street art in West Bengal advocates labor rights, rather than criminalization or ‘rescue,’ for sex workers. The Durbar Committee is a self-described...
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Sex Workers in France Resist Attacks on Their Liberty
La fédération STRASS de Lyon 1er Mai. (via Facebook) Originally published at In These Times These days, French political culture appears to be retreating from its stereotypical liberalism on one of its...
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National Paid Family Leave May Finally Be on the Horizon
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is one of the sponsors of the bill to support paid leave insurance for families. (Flickr / personaldemocracy / Creative Commons) Originally published at In These...
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Advice for Young Women: Get a Union Job
Originally published at In These Times Back in the days before modern feminism, a young woman looking for work might typically be advised, politely, to “learn a trade,” with the implication that she...
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Sex Workers Have Labor Rights Just Like Any Other Employee, Confirms NZ Court
New Zealand Prostitutes Collective (via Facebook) Last month, the New Zealand Human Rights Review Tribunal made a landmark ruling on the violation of a woman’s human rights in a Wellington brothel...
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