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BRAZIL |31-12-2013| You would be forgiven for thinking that the football players with Che Guevara portraits emblazoned on their jerseys were members of the Cuban national teamplay. Instead they play for a small Brazilian football team, Madureira Esporte Clube, from a Rio de Janeiro suburb. Earlier this year, Madureira decided to use Alberto Korda’s famous photograph of the revolutionary leader for one of ...

CAMBODIA | 20-12-2013 | C.CAWDU and SL Garment Processing sign an agreement to end a three-month long strike in Cambodia, including the re-hiring of 19 dismissed union representatives, payment of half of the lost wages and the removal of a newly appointed manager. After more than five months of dispute, including strikes that were violently repressed by the police, SL ...

SOUTH-AFRICA | 05-12-2013 | South African President Jacob Zuma confirmed Mandela’s death at a press conference on Thursday. The anti-apartheid leader passed away peacefully at his home in Johannesburg. Mandela had been critically ill with a lung infection for the past five months. “We’ve lost our greatest son,” said Zuma. Known to many around the world by his clan name, ...

COLOMBIA | 13-11-2013 | Trade union member Oscar López Triviño was killed on 9 November in Bugalagrande, south-western Colombia. A day earlier, paramilitaries sent a death threat to members of the union to which he belongs. Other members of the union are at risk. On 9 November a man shot and killed Oscar López Triviño in a billiard hall in ...

PHILIPPINES | 10-11-2013 | Thousands of people are feared dead in the Philippines as a result of one of the worst typhoons ever to hit the archipelago. The resulting destruction is making it difficult for rescuers to reach the affected areas. A senior police officer in the Phillippines said on Sunday that around 10,000 were feared dead on the island ...

BRAZIL | 12-09-2013 |  Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in dozens of cities across Brazil on Saturday and were dispersed violently by the police while mounting some of the most vigorous expressions of anger with governing institutions since an outburst of antigovernment demonstrations shook the political establishment in June. Still, fewer people turned out in major cities on Saturday ...

YEMEN | 09-09-2013 | An eight-year-old child bride has died in  Yemen of internal bleeding sustained during her wedding night after being forced  to marry a man five times her age, activists have claimed. The girl, identified only as Rawan, died in  the tribal area of Hardh in northwestern Yemen, which borders Saudi Arabia.  Activists are now calling for the ...

NEW YORK | 06 – 09 – 2013 | Fast food workers in 60 cities across the U.S. walked off the job Thursday as they protest for higher wages. Workers from fast food giants McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s and Yum Brands -owned KFC are calling on their employers to pay them a minimum of $15 an hour and allow them to ...

SYRIA | 23-08-2013 | Children make up more than half of all refugees from the Syrian conflict. More than 768,000 Syrian child refugees are under the age of 11 according to new figures released by UNICEF. Most have arrived in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. More than 3,500 of these children have crossed the borders either unaccompanied or separated ...

ATİK |18-08-2013 | The attacks against the masses who gathered on the squares in Egypt in defiance of the military coup have turned into a massacre. Hunderds of people who took to the squares against the fascist military coup are killed, thousands are injured during the attack. And while these brutal attacks continue with all its barbarism, state of emergency ...