Category Archives: Viva!

Prominent Iranian activist arrested in Tehran – Al Jazeera English

Iranian security forces have arrested a prominent activist just days after she was charged in court with crimes “against national security”, a human rights group has said.

Narges Mohammadi, a senior leader of the banned Defenders of Human Rights Centre, was “forcibly arrested” early on Tuesday from her house in the Iranian capital, Tehran, according to the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) group.

The report said that security forces entered her house and arrested her, after she refused to open her door.

via Prominent Iranian activist arrested in Tehran – Al Jazeera English.

MyStealthyFreedom – MSF

MyStealthyFreedom - MSF

“I hate all the fake hijabs, all the meaningless beliefs cruelly forced upon us, all the funny ‘musts’ that have turned into laws. Please listen. The sunshine is mine as well. Don’t be surprised if you see a girl who is tempted to escape from these cruel, nonsense obligations that originate from your mind. The air is her’s as well. She feels hot as well. She would like to spend the summer, pleasantly, coolly. A woman who has rotted under a burden of fake hijab. A woman who is still naked in your eyes besides all this covering. My heart feels broken in this weather.”

via MyStealthyFreedom – MSF.

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.