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In my previous opinion piece for Equal Times, I argued why workers and unions must engage in the topic of the digitalisation of work. This article picks up from the previous one by offering (...)

Helena Silvestre was born in 1984 in Mauá, in ‘ABC Paulista', metropolitan region of São Paulo. She grew up in a favela, which led her to get involved, from a very young age, in the fight for the (...)

In 2012, a woman interviewed for a job as a shop assistant at a Dordrecht branch of the clothing store Esprit in the western part of the Netherlands. Four days later, the store left her a (...)

Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice (...)

Venezuela ranks number nine in the world in renewable freshwater resources. However, the state, which is responsible for supplying these resources, guarantees neither their quality nor their (...)

Violent crime is on the rise in South Africa, but few trust the police force’s ability to take on the problem. Enter community policing forums.

Equal Times is a trilingual news and opinion website focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice (...)

For the last two years, Jakina Lameki, who lives in the town of Bangula in Malawi's southernmost district of Nsanje, has experienced the catastrophic impact that climate change is having on her (...)

On 17 May, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, workers demand equal, inclusive and safe workplaces for all, free (...)

Bright Adu Larbi, a 38-year-old security guard making 500 Ghanaian cedis (US$45) a month, didn't need the ongoing economic crisis to feel overwhelmed by the cost of living in Ghana's capital city, (...)