Photo credit: The Nation Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday called for expanding legal migration opportunities for Pakistani skilled workers and professionals in European countries, saying pathways could help meet labour-market needs while reducing migrants’ vulnerability to smuggling networks. Business Recorder reports that he made these remarks while speaking to Magnus Brunner, European Union Commissioner…
Photo credit: Taipei Times Employers are not required to support a foreign worker’s family if the worker becomes pregnant, the Ministry of Labour (MOL) said yesterday, following complaints from an employer who discovered a caregiver they recently hired was pregnant. Taipei Times reports that the ministry urged the public not to spread misinformation, saying pregnant foreign domestic workers…
Photo credit: CW39 Houston Climate activists picketed outside the African Energy Week conference in Cape Town, South Africa, on Tuesday, calling for an end to new oil and gas exploration across the continent and accusing energy companies of prioritizing profits over people and the environment. The Associated Press reports that Greenpeace Africa and Extinction Rebellion…
Scarborough was the focal point for Toronto’s mayoral campaign on Thanksgiving, with the main candidates making their stops in the city’s east end. City News reports that Mayor Olivia Chow attended an event hosted by the Chinese Cultural Centre and served meals to seniors. She was technically present in her capacity as mayor, but she…
Photo credit: Bozeman Daily Kashish Rawat travelled to New Delhi on Saturday to protest. She did not tell her parents. The Associated Press reports that when the 22-year-old economics student arrived in the Indian capital, she encountered a city transformed. Metal barricades choked the streets as police moved against young demonstrators, beating some, dragging others into…
Photo credit: The Guardian Clashes last week between armed groups from rival communities in the central part of South Sudan left scores of people dead and overwhelmed a hospital with wounded people, officials said. The Associated Press reports that fighting swept through the Rumbek area of Lakes State on Friday as government soldiers and UN…
