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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.
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.
EU approves import of 19 genetically modified organisms | News | DW.DE | 24.04.2015
No place to run or hide – corruption and self-delusion win out! The European Union’s executive body granted 10 new authorizations for genetically modified organisms (GMO) food or animal feed on Friday, including varieties of maize, soybean, cotton, and oilseed rape. The Commission also renewed licenses for seven GMO products and allowed the import of two types of carnation.
“All the GMO products approved today have been proved to be safe before their placing on the EU market,” the Commission said in a statement, explaining the products were tested by the European Food Safety Authority and that the authorizations are valid for 10 years.
The newly approved products are made by companies including US giants Monsanto and DuPont, and German firms Bayer and BASF.
via EU approves import of 19 genetically modified organisms | News | DW.DE | 24.04.2015.
Settlers Raise Israeli Flag over Hebron’s Al-Ibrahimi Mosque
Israeli settlers raised the Israeli flag on the walls and over the rooftop of al-Ibrahimi Mosque, also known as Cave of the Patriarchs, today in Hebron.
The reconstruction committee in Hebron condemned, in a press statement, this measure and considered it a continuation of ongoing Israeli attempts to alter the character of the mosque and annex it to the list of Jewish heritage sites.
The committee slammed this Israeli measure as a provocative act and an assault against Muslims in general and Palestinians in particular.
It called on all relevant human rights and humanitarian organizations to take the necessary actions to protect the mosque.
Al-Ibrahimi Mosque is located in the old city of Hebron, few hundred meters away from the part of the city illegally occupied by around 400 extremist settlers, who are protected by about 1,500 Israeli soldiers.
Since 1967, al-Ibrahimi Mosque, like all other Muslim holy sites in Palestine, became a target for the Israeli occupying forces and Zionist settlers, reported the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee.
In 1994, Israel divided al-Ibrahimi Mosque between Muslims and Jews, after an Israeli settler gunned down 30 Palestinians during dawn prayer.
via Settlers Raise Israeli Flag over Hebron’s Al-Ibrahimi Mosque.
Katie Hopkins calling migrants vermin recalls the darkest events of history | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | The Guardian
It is no joke when people start talking like this. We are not “giving her what she wants” when we make manifest our disgust. It is not a free speech issue. I’m not saying gag her: I’m saying fight her. Articulate the fellowship, the human empathy, that makes these deaths important. Stop talking about how many children were among the dead, as though only children matter. Start talking about everybody’s life as cherishable, irrespective of anything they might produce.
Karma and fear – not a good mix – Chinese-owned businesses in South Africa close amid xenophobic violence: Shanghaiist
President Zuma condemned the violence, in which six people have already died, calling it “shocking and unacceptable,” however he also recognized that South Africans had concerns over illegal and undocumented immigrants in the country.
While the violence has mainly targeted Africans from neighboring countries, the Chinese Embassy and Consulates in South Africa are calling for immediate and effective measures to protect the personal safety and property of Chinese nationals.
The timing could not be worse from a diplomatic standpoint, with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visiting the country as the violence flared up.
South Africa has a large Chinese immigrant population, with estimates ranging from 200,000 to over 300,000.
via Chinese-owned businesses in South Africa close amid xenophobic violence: Shanghaiist.
Turkey accuses EU of ′religious fanaticism′ in Armenia genocide resolution | News | DW.DE | 16.04.2015
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused the European Parliament of being unfair with regards to history. The MEPs demonstrated “religious and cultural fanaticism,” the Turkish government said.
Hundreds of thousands of people have reported sides hurting because they could not stop laughing at President Erdogan’s latest attempt to be taken seriously.
I Am Voting With My Vagina: Hillary Clinton For President | Dame Magazine
This is not an essay about how you should vote in the next presidential election.
I believe you should vote in a way that reflects your own personal blend of what you value and what you can stomach in a presidential candidate. If that comes down to registering your support for someone who has no real chance, writing in your ideal candidate, or even staying home on election day, I respect that. Your vote is yours, and you don’t owe anyone an explanation, let alone justification, of how you decide to use it.
Me, I intend to vote with my vagina. Unapologetically. Enthusiastically. (Metaphorically, for those concerned about ending up in line behind me.) And I intend to talk about it.
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During the 2008 Democratic primaries, I supported Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama for two main reasons:
She was older, which mattered to me a small amount in terms of experience, and a large amount in terms of the difference eight years would make. President Obama is younger than two of my siblings. If he ran today, at 53, he’d still be younger than most of his opponents. Hillary Clinton is now 67—in apparently great health, and willing to go through all this bullshit again, so more power to her! But now, in addition to the usual sexism coming her way, we’re about to endure 18 months of hearing what a shriveled old crone she is—and wouldn’t she be better off staying home and dandling wee Charlotte on her wrinkled knee? I was really hoping to avoid that.
She’s a woman, and President Obama is a man.
via I Am Voting With My Vagina: Hillary Clinton For President | Dame Magazine.

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