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Work not handouts: entrepreneurs reboot image of refugees
Middle East
May 31, 2019
Work not handouts: entrepreneurs reboot image of refugees
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Stuck in a former Dutch prison housing asylum seekers, Syrian software trainer Tey el-Rjula conjured…
Brazil president says he wants the Amazon to be exploited ‘in a reasonable way’
World
April 19, 2019
Brazil president says he wants the Amazon to be exploited ‘in a reasonable way’
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that he wanted the country’s vast Amazon rainforest to…
Syrian refugees in Lebanon at growing risk of forced labour: anti-slavery activists
Middle East
April 12, 2016
Syrian refugees in Lebanon at growing risk of forced labour: anti-slavery activists
A growing number of children whose families have fled the Syrian war to Lebanon are being forced to work for…
Death by overwork on rise among Japan’s vulnerable workers
Business
April 3, 2016
Death by overwork on rise among Japan’s vulnerable workers
Japan is witnessing a record number of compensation claims related to death from overwork, or "karoshi", a phenomenon previously associated…