Striking Clover unions are holding a mass rally in Johannesburg. The Food and Allied Workers Union and the General Industries Workers Union have been on strike for nine weeks. Reporter Silindelo Masikane is following developments.
Month: January 2022
5G තාක්ෂණය ගුවන් යානා අනතුරේ හෙළයි ද?
Chanuka Nadun 21 Jan 2022 Originally From: https://roar.media/sinhala/tech/startups/will-5g-technology-endange-aircrafts අමෙරිකාවට පසුගිය දිනෙක වඩාත් වැඩි දියුණු 5G තාක්ෂණ ක්‍රමවේදයක් හඳුන්වා දීමට එරට සමාගම් කිහිපයක් කටයුතු කළා. මේ නව තාක්ෂණය නිසා ගුවන් අනතුරු සිදුවිය හැකි බවට එරට ගුවන් ගමන් ආයතන අනතුරු අඟවනවා. ඔවුන්ට අනුව FAA – Federal Aviation Administration එක මේ වෙනුවෙන් නිසි ක්‍රියාමාර්ග නොගත්තොත් ඔවුන් තම ගුවන් ගමන් නවතා දමන බවට ප්‍රකාශ කරනවා. 5G තාක්ෂණය හඳුන්වා දුන් කාලයේ සිට ම එහි අහිතකර තත්ත්ව පිළිබඳ ව බොහෝ දෙනෙක් කතා බහ කළා. මෙය එවැනි තවත් එක අනතුරක පෙර නිමිත්තක් ද? මේ නව තාක්ෂණය මිනිස්…
Myanmar: Two journalists killed in military attacks
Journalists Sai Win Aung and Pu Tuidim were killed by Myanmar’s military in two separate attacks on December 25 and January 8 respectively. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly condemns the continued violence against media workers in Myanmar and calls for those responsible to be brought to justice immediately. Editor for the Federal News Journal, Sai Win Aung, was killed in an attack by military forces on December 25 while reporting on refugees in Kayin state’s Myawaddy township, near the Thai border. Sai Win Aung, also known as A Sai K, was fatally shot by…
SRI LANKA: Participatory Constitution-making – The essentials
An Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Participatory Constitution-making – The essentials By Basil Fernando Today, there is a consensus that Sri Lanka has entered into a period of crisis that is worse than it has ever faced in recent history. It is also agreed among most of the people who are highly knowledgeable in the field of economics and financing that this crisis will last for a long time even if some genuine effort is made to rescue the country even at this stage. However, if…
Afghanistan: ‘We Had to Choose Between Life and Death’
Transcript from a recording of Zenab*, a 25-year old reporter and presenter with Afghanistan International Radio and TV. After Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, she left for Turkey with three family members. Others in her family are still in Kabul, and they have lost their jobs. She continues to work but finds her income is not enough to support her family. This transcript has been excerpted from “In Their Own Words: Afghan Women Journalists Speak”, a report by the International Federation of Journalists and the Network of Women in Media, India,…
Dr. King Remained Hopeful. So Can We.
King’s “Testament of Hope” sounds as relevant today as the day it was published. RESEARCH & COMMENTARY JANUARY 13, 2022 by Dedrick Asante Muhammad 2022 has begun with melancholy, as our country sees the pandemic reach new heights. Meanwhile our crises of climate, democracy, and inequality seem more entrenched than ever. All this uncertainty is taking a toll, but uncertain times are far from unprecedented. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke to an equally uncertain time and found hope in recognizing the necessity of radical change. As we celebrate the national…
INEQUALITY BY THE NUMBERS
Originally From: https://inequality.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/inequality-newsletter-january-17-2022.html THIS WEEK “The past is strewn with the ruins of the empires of tyranny, and each is a monument not merely to our blunders but to our capacity to overcome them,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. noted in 1968, shortly before his death. “That’s why I remain an optimist, though I am also a realist, about the barriers before us.” With global inequality reaching unimaginable heights, the barriers we face today can certainly seem immovable. But if Dr. King could remain hopeful, as Dedrick Asante-Muhammad reflects below, so…
Homo sapiens bones in East Africa are at least 36,000 years older than once thought
Volcanic ash dating pushes back the age of human fossils found in Ethiopia to 233,000 years ago By Bruce Bower JANUARY 12, 2022 AT 11:00 AM Fossils from the oldest known Homo sapiens individual in East Africa are more ancient than previously thought. A partial H. sapiens skull and associated skeletal parts found in 1967 in the Kibish rock formation along Ethiopia’s Omo River date to at least around 233,000 years ago, pushing back the age of the fossils by 36,000 years or more. An age well exceeding 200,000 years for the Ethiopian fossils, known…
इंसानियत, भाईचारा, अमन और सदभावना को लेकर राजसमन्द राजस्थान में एक आपसी संवाद कर्यक्रम का
इंसानियत, भाईचारा, अमन और सदभावना को लेकर राजसमन्द राजस्थान में एक आपसी संवाद कर्यक्रम का आयोजन गांधी सेवा सदन में आयोजित किया गया। जिसमें देश के ख्यातिनाम साहित्कारों, सामाजिक कार्यकर्ताओ, बुद्धिजीवियों ने भाग लेकर साम्प्रदायिक सौहार्द को बनाये रखने पर विचार व्यक्त किये। MKSS से RTI activist अरुणा रॉय, निखिल डे, शंकर सिंह के साथ ही दिल्ली से प्रोफेसर अपूर्वानंद, हर्ष मंदर, अशोक वाजपेयी, गुजरात से चारुल एवम विनय महाजन सहित राजसमन्द के सामाजिक स्तर पर सक्रिय समाज के प्रबुद्व नागरिको चिंतको स्वंसेवी संस्थाओ के कार्यकर्ताओं सहित राजसमन्द के Street…
අත්‍යවශ්‍ය භාණ්ඩ හා සේවාවල මිල වහාම අඩු කරනු!
ප්‍රියන්ත සිල්වා විසිනි අත්‍යවශ්‍ය භාණ්ඩ හා සේවාවල මිල දිනෙන් දින ඉහල යමින් තිබේ.රටේ බහුතර ජනතාව දැඩි ආර්ථික අපහසුතාවයන්ට මුහුණ දී සිටිති.ඔවුන්ගේ ජීවන අපේක්ෂා බිඳ වැටෙමින් පවතී.මෙම තත්ත්වය සමනය කිරීමේ උපායක් ලෙස රාජ්‍ය සේවකයින්ට හා විශ්‍රාමිකයින්ට රුපියල් 5000 ක මාසික දීමනාවක් ලබාදීමට රජය කටයුතු කර ඇත. මෙය වර්ධනය වන උද්ධමනකාරිත්වයට ඍජු ප්‍රතිකර්මයක් නොවුනද, එමගින් යම් සහනයක් ලැබෙනු ඇතැයි පුරවැසියන්ගේ බලාපොරොත්තුවයි.එසේ වුවද අප රටේ ජාතික ආදායමට විශාල දායකත්වයක් ලබාදෙන පුද්ගලික අංශයේ සේවකයන්ට මෙම සහනය ලබාදීමේ වැඩ පිළිවෙලක් මෙතෙක් දියත් වී නොමැත.ඔවුන්ගේ ඉල්ලීමක් වූ රු.10,000 ක වැටුප් වැඩි කිරීම…