Poverty
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by Jan Sochor
Every day dozens of Moroccan young men try to cross ilegally the Strait of Gibraltar. “Harraga” (Immigrants in Arabic), hide themselves between the wheels of trucks and attempt to board ferries to go to Europe.
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The Ultra nationalist party Golden Dawn organized a food distribution day for Greek citizens, to help them celebrate Easter. The distribution occurred outside the party offices in Athens. Immigrants and foreigners were excluded.
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Independent unions, students, teachers and young anarchists marched through the main avenues of Mexico City in commemoration of Labor Day and to protest against the government's neoliberal reforms of President Peña Nieto.
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The international working day in Greece was due to the orthodox Easter celebration officially postponed to 7th of May. Thus some Unions and Parties organized the traditional strike march while the rest of the city was working as usual.
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by Tine Sabillo
Filipino workers commemorated Labor Day with protests against inhumane wages and the Aquino administration's insistence on token non-wage benefits instead of a substantial wage hike.
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by Mauro Ujetto
Anonymous accuse the Democratic Party to have saved Berlusconi and The PDL Party with the new government of broad alliances. They point to a rift between the political and the real country.
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by Tine Sabillo
Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle celebrated high mass with Filipino workers on Labor Day. His sermon focused on the importance of human dignity over profit. Afterwards, bishops and workers shared a poor man's lunch of salted egg and fish
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by Jan Sochor
Calvario, a slum right in the centre of the city, is considered the social bottom of Cali society.
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by Abid Bhat
The low paid workers and labourers staged rallies to commemorate International Workers Day. Many seek better amenities and better wages.
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Old age pensioners from Mallorca staged a protest over the country's policies, in particular recent decisions taken by the Spanish government in terms of a range of harsh austerity measures designed to ease its economic crisis.
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by Ezra Acayan
Three people were reported injured after a fire razed over one hundred homes and rendered more than two hundred families homeless in a shanty town in Quezon City.
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The number of people begging on the street has been greatly increased as a result of the crisis and unemployment that affects more than six million people already España.
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In Cambodia, where nearly 34% of population is poor and survive on less than US$1 a day, about half of all Cambodian children are malnourished, one in eight dies before the age of five. Many children are reduced to undertaking some form of work.
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by Ramon Costa
The Red Cross has served in L'Hospitalet during the first four months of 2013. 2000 families of the city have urgent needs with an increased demand.
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In 2011 when the Portuguese Republic avoided default by requesting international financial assistance to the International Monetary Fund, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, one of the best known captains who coordinated and organized the April 1974 military.


































































