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Photo credit: Amnesty International Migrant workers at Carrefour sites, in Saudi Arabia, are exploited and forced to live in squalour. According to a report be Amnesty International UK, workers from Nepal, India and Pakistan are made to work 16-hour days and threatened with costly lay-offs if they refused to work overtime. One of the workers…

Photo credit; the Guardian The University of Toronto environment school says it will financially dissociate from fossil fuel companies. The Guardian reports that the institution has committed to stop taking funds from the sector for research, sponsorships, scholarships or infrastructure such as buildings. It is also going to stop collaborating with te industry on events and school initiatives, cease…

Photo credit: Ron fanfair This week, Hortense Anglin was the oldest graduate to make her way across the platform at York University’s Fall Convocation ceremony. CTV News reports that she graduated with an honours degree in Religious Studies at age eighty-seven.  She said, “Each person took the time to greet me and to congratulate me…

Photo credit: Euro News Following Albanian judge’s ruling against their detention, migrants sent from Italy to Albania were returned to Italy on Saturday. Sixteen men from Bangladesh and Egypt arrived at the Albanian port of Shengjin on Wednesday under an arrangement between Italy and Albania. Under the arrangement, the men were to be housed in…

Photo credit: New Lines Magazine Canada welcomes refugees fleeing war, violence, and persecution in their home countries. Global News reports, however, that their hopes for a smooth transition are often dashed as soon as they get to Canada. Many of them find themselves sleeping on a mattress on the floor of a homeless shelter. Spending…

Photo credit; BBC North Korea has shipped 1,500 special forces troops to Russia. Reuters reports that they will be deployed in the war against Ukraine. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service said it had been working with the Ukrainian Intelligence Service and had used facial recognition artificial intelligence technology to identify North Korean officers in eastern…

Photo credit: Human rights watch Recent fighting between Ethiopian government forces and Fano militias in the northwestern Amhara region has put Sudanese refugees in and around camps near the Sudan border at rave risk, according to Human Rights Watch. Eurasia Review reports that the Ethiopian government should step up the protection of refugees who, for more…