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Asquan is committed to protecting the oceans and the environment Sponsored contents Share: As of 2015, 8.3 billion tons of plastic have been produced since the 1950s. 60% or the equivalent in weight of more than 470,000 Eiffel Towers, has already ended up in landfills, oceans and in the environment. If we keep the current “business as usual” scenario, it is estimated that there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish by 2050! In front of this situation, Asquan lauches the Ocean ...

Mapúa University has entered once again the global Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings. For 2021, Mapúa made it in the UK-based rankings alongside Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), De La Salle University (DLSU), University of Santo Tomas (UST) and Tarlac Agricultural University (TAU). The THE Impact Rankings is the only global performance tables that assess universities against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by using carefully calibrated indicators to pr...

The paid leaves and benefits Canadians are entitled to after a miscarriage When New Zealand announced a new pregnancy loss leave, the world celebrated. But what kind of supports can you access in Canada? We break it down. Just a few weeks after having a miscarriage in April 2020, Reena Gill was back on the job as a nurse in the acute psychiatry ward of a hospital in Victoria, B.C., working 12-hour shifts in full personal protective equipment, just as the pandemic took off in Canada. She had al...

© Getty Images China’s persecution of its Muslim Uyghur minority in Xinjiang Province has confronted foreign companies with a dilemma: disapprove and face Chinese wrath (e.g., H&M, Adidas and IKEA), or remain silent and incur reproach from activists in democratic countries. Understandably not wanting to be drawn into larger political tensions, companies might best address the issue most directly affecting them — forced labor in their global supply chains. The stakes could not be higher for...

Nestle Pakistan Publishes Sustainability Report on Creating Shared Value Nestlé Pakistan recently published its sustainability report for 2020: ‘Nestlé in Society: Creating Shared Value (CSV), highlighting its three main global focus areas: for individuals and families, for communities, and for the planet, in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Highlighting Nestlé’s CSV philosophy, Samer Chedid, CEO, Nestlé Pakistan, said, Creating Shared Value remains the fundam...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 5 May 2021 In the last few days, two international events were held in Nigeria. The first was the International Workers’ Day and the second, World Press Freedom Day. Last Saturday, May 1, 2021 was the International Labour Day, also known as Workers Day or May Day. In Nigeria, in order to enable workers to mark the day, the Federal Government declared Monday, May 3, 2021 as public holiday. In celebration of the day, workers filed out in their numbers at stad...

African despots – including those who were elected into office – do not take kindly to criticism by scholars, as the case of Sishuwa Sishuwa reminds us. Active in both the world of scholarship and that of public debate, Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa is one of the young turks of African political history. After completing his PhD at Oxford, Sishuwa was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Zambia (Unza). He is currently on official leave from Unza in the University of Cape Town’s Institute ...

The Federal Government has assured workers that the transfer of the National Minimum Wage from the Executive to Concurrent list would not work

Views: Visits 6 The Federal Government has assured workers that the transfer of the National Minimum Wage from the Executive to Concurrent list would not work. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, gave the hint at the 2021 May Day celebration, on Saturday in Abuja. The theme of the May Day celebration is: “COVID-19, Social and Economic Crises;  Challenges for Decent Work, Social Protection and Peoples Welfare”. Ngige said that the new minimum wage was a nat...

•As states identify importance of workers in government Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja and Segun James The federal government has said the N30, 000 national minimum wage is binding on all employers of labour, including state governments and the private sector. Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, made the clarification on Saturday in Abuja during the Workers Day celebrations. This followed agitations by labour over the non-implementation of the national minimum wage by some stat...