employment

Articles

• India: The missing Muslim, part I
  7 March 2013, by siawi3

  Muslims across India are severely under-represented in government employment, including PSUs, compared to the percentage of their population in a state. While this may not appear unusual given the overall poverty and lack of education in the community, the startling fact is that this under-representation is also evident — sometimes in more stark a fashion — in states where the political establishment has made Muslim welfare a key part of its charter.

• Egypt: Alexandria Salafists open fire on liberals, striking workers in Eid sermons
  30 October 2012, by siawi3

  “The president has to support the application of God’s rule — Egypt is an Islamic state”. Workers also came under fire at Alexandria’s Ramla Square, where the Muslim Brotherhood’s Sobhi Saleh dubbed those taking part in strikes “enemies of the people.”

• « Parcours professionnels de femmes immigrées et de filles d’immigrés »
  6 mars 2013, par siawi3

  Les femmes immigrées ou issues de l’immigration ont acquis une place de plus en plus grande sur le marché du travail, tandis que l’économie devenait une « économie de services ». Ces femmes cherchent tout à la fois à accéder à une autonomie financière, et à aider leur famille à survivre. Un nombre croissant d’entre elles vivent seules, sont chefs de famille monoparentale ou ont un conjoint qui est lui-même dans la précarité.

• Egypte : Morsi, les Frères musulmans et les tendances répressives
  29 octobre 2012, par siawi3

  Depuis que les Frères musulmans sont aussi politiquement fort influents, depuis que Mohamed Morsi a été élu président en juin 2012, le nombre de syndicalistes licenciés n’a cessé de croître, sous l’impulsion aussi des directions des entreprises.

• UK: Gay priest takes Church of England to employment tribunal
  18 June 2015, by siawi3

  Just because the Church of England treats lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) clergy as second class Christians this is no excuse for it to impose its anti-gay discrimination on non-church institutions.

• Tunisia’s unemployed revolutionaries head to Europe
  18 October 2012, by siawi3

  In Tunisia locals call such attempts to reach Europe “the burning” - young men, driven by unemployment and poverty, risking their lives to illegally enter Italy in the hope of a better life.

  The International Organization for Migration (IOM) recorded 27,000 Tunisians arrivals on Lampedusa out of a total of 60,000 - including those fleeing the Libyan war and migrants from other countries.

  A crackdown by Italian authorities has meant that this year, many less have successfully made the journey to the island with about 3,300 migrants from all nationalities arriving between January and June.