All posts by nedhamson

Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

School to work transition: Youth in Eastern Europe and Central Asia face multiple barriers in finding decent jobs

The average length of transition from school to stable or satisfactory employment was nearly two years for the six countries analysed. Youth with university degrees do better at eventually finding a stable job. The lesser-skilled young person – with primary education only – spent, on average, four times longer to find a job than the university graduate.

via School to work transition: Youth in Eastern Europe and Central Asia face multiple barriers in finding decent jobs.

I’m ashamed of Britain’s aid pledge to Nepal – just 12p each | Carole Cadwalladr | Comment is free | The Guardian

And what have we done? David Cameron has announced that Britain will be sending a team of eight people to help. The government has said we will give £5m in disaster relief. Eight people. Five million pounds – the princely sum of 12p from each of us. And here are some more numbers: 200, the years we have siphoned off their population to fight our wars for us; 43,000, the Gurkhas killed during two world wars; 141, the places ahead we are of Nepal in a list of the world’s richest countries; five, where we are in a list of its trading partners.

I don’t feel lucky to have missed the earthquake in Kathmandu or the avalanche at base camp. To have avoided the broken limbs my other team mates suffered, or to have been buried under the cascading rubble of the heartbreakingly beautiful, now destroyed, Durbar Square, where last Saturday I bought scarves as presents for my friends. I took my chances. I didn’t have to be there. Instead I feel extraordinarily lucky to have been born in a country with a functioning economy and the kind of life chances denied to 99.9% of the population of Nepal.

Advertisement

I received a world-class education for free, I’m able to travel and visit other countries, and if I’d been caught in an avalanche up at base camp, or stubbed my toe, I had insurance to spring me a helicopter to the best western-style hospital around. My livelihood, unlike the Nepalese people I was with, hasn’t just suffered a catastrophic blow by the inevitable collapse of tourism (the Foreign Office has warned against all but essential travel to the country). And the doctor I saw for the chest infection I carried home didn’t cost me a penny.

via I’m ashamed of Britain’s aid pledge to Nepal – just 12p each | Carole Cadwalladr | Comment is free | The Guardian.

Money buys research to support industrial milk? Organic milk ‘is less healthy than regular milk and could harm child IQ’ – Telegraph

Up to 70 percent of teenage girls across the UK are now iodine deficient, probably as a result of a decline in milk consumption, said the scientists, whose findings are reported in the journal Food Chemistry.

via Organic milk ‘is less healthy than regular milk and could harm child IQ’ – Telegraph.

When is the last time you saw an adult bovine drinking 3 glasses of milk a day? Why do 99.99% of mammals wean their young from milk? Humans have deluded themselves for millennia that milk and milk products are to be consumed in mass quantities for life with no health consequences even though we are the only mammals to live this way.

Egyptian Aak 2015 – Week 17 ( April 20 – 26)

Nervana

Main Headlines

 Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

  • Arab army commanders heads meet in Cairo

View original post 615 more words

EBR-News Nr. 1/2015

EBR-News Nr. 1/2015.

Greece: Collective bargaining to be reinstated

 

On 15 April 2015, for the first time since change of government, a meeting took place between trade unions, the employers’ associations and the Ministry of Labour. Discussions included means to reinstate an effective social dialogue as well as stable collective bargaining structures and a road-map for a minimum wage, which is to start at 650 € from 1 October 2015. The left-wing government, in power since the end of January 2015, is hereby openly supported by the trade union federations in Brussels. Over and over again they had severely criticized the dismantling of the labour laws by the preceding governments.

▶ Jovanotti – Fango (rarissima versione in inglese) COMPLETA e NUOVA! – YouTube

Fango di Jovanotti versione in Inglese, completa! SPARGETE LA VOCE.

Im not alone even when Im alone

I know Im not alone.

Im not alone even when Im alone

Under skies of stars and satellites,

Between the victims the guilty and the parasites.

A dog barks at the moon

A man looks at his hand it reminds him of his dad

The way they played in the sand.

When he picked him up like nothing and he lifted him up,

The view was awesome from up on top.

He rushed towards things without a second thought

His hand was tiny but it held the whole world.

Now the city is a foreign flick without captions,

The roads we walk on theyre slippery slopes.

Sliding along things covered in ice

The TV says stuff out theres not nice.

But the only thing that really frightens you dear,

Is losing the skill to feel and fear:

The smell of flowers

The scent of the city

Sound of a bike

The taste of pizza

The tears of a mother

A students ideas

Meeting your love out in a square.

Standing pointing towards the sky

You know being alone is a lie

Cause Im not alone even when Im alone

I know Im not alone.

Im not alone even when Im alone

Melding with the sky and the stone.

Cause Im not alone even when Im alone

I know Im not alone.

And I laugh and I cry,

Becoming one with the mud and the sky.

The city is a foreign flick without captions,

A fire boiling over conversations.

Hows it hanging?

Whats it costing?

Whats the time?

Where you going?

What they saying?

Whos believing?

I guess Ill be seeing.

You feel alone, abandoned, targeted and fake,

Becoming isolated when you make a mistake.

A 20 foot billboard tells you Make the most of Now!

But youve grown up fast and can not even say WOW!

A world ripped apart, just held together by those,

Who still have the strength to love and hope,

And a music pumping blood through my veins,

That makes me wanna get up and say:

All you people stop complaining,

Cause the only danger is truly one thing,

The fear of no longer feeling anything,

The fear of feeling nothing.

The sound of your heart beating,

The passion and love your feeling.

The hunger the thirst, the evolution in act,

The energy released in a contact.

Cause Im not alone even when Im alone

I know Im not alone.

Im not alone even when Im alone

Melding with the sky and the stone.

Cause Im not alone even when Im alone

I know Im not alone.

And I laugh and I cry,

Becoming one with the mud and the sky.

via ▶ Jovanotti – Fango (rarissima versione in inglese) COMPLETA e NUOVA! – YouTube.

′Being ethical is worth it′ | News | DW.DE | 25.04.2015

When asked about his good relationship with Germany, the former Auschwitz prisoner said: “If someone had told me in 1941, while I was standing on the parade ground in Auschwitz, that I would have German friends one day, I would have called him mad.” But several decades later, Bartoszewski was considered in Germany as one of the people who had worked hardest for this friendship.

As if by miracle, Wladyslaw Bartoszewski survived Auschwitz, then joined the underground Polish Home Army, fought in the Warsaw Uprising and helped to rescue thousands of Jews. After the war, he worked as a freelance journalist and was frequently arrested by the communists. He supported the Catholic opposition and the trade union movement Solidarność. After 1989, he was twice made foreign minister. Despite his advanced age, he was active right to the end, most recently as an adviser to Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz and government coordinator for German-Polish relations.

via ′Being ethical is worth it′ | News | DW.DE | 25.04.2015.