UN Urges Better Protection For Digital Platform Workers By Agn?s PEDRERO
02/23/21 AT 11:33 AM
The United Nations called Tuesday for urgent international regulations ensuring fair conditions for workers paid via digital platforms such as food delivery apps a form of employment that has rocketed during the pandemic.
The number of online platforms offering work has grown five-fold over the last decade, according to a report released by the International Labour Organization (ILO), a UN agency.
They range from taxi-booking apps to services connecting customers with a plumber or a freelance website developer.
And the shift to finding work via such platforms has accelerated during the pandemic, due to soaring job losses and increasing demand for home deliveries in countries where restaurants and retail have been shut.
The International Cooperative Alliance, within the framework of ICA-EU partnership is organizing a session on the capacity building and knowledge sharing through online. This session will take place on 5 March from 3 pm to 4.30 pm CET.
This talk will focus on the opportunities and challenges for workers in developing countries on digital labour platforms based on a survey of 12000 workers around the world. It will discuss what role cooperatives can play in improving their working conditions.
It bears recall that Coop Academy is a coops4dev capacity building and sharing knowledge initiative that aims at offering participants from all over the world the possibility to attend different training sessions.
Sumona Gupta is a student and organizer based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
An air of uncertainty hung above the United States on November 3, 2020 no one knew how the presidential election would play out, how long it would take to decide, when the backlash against the winner would begin, or if it would turn into violence. One thing was relatively certain, though: California would vote overwhelmingly for Joe Biden. Indeed, Biden won the state with 64.6 percent of the vote, a historically large margin.
1 However, there were also several propositions on the 2020 California ballot, the results of which were not as easily predictable. In California, ballot initiatives are a significant part of election season. California ballot measure campaigns take second place to U.S. presidential campaigns in global political spending. This is likely because of the state’s wide influence in U.S. politics and the size of its population.
HARIDWAR: Hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims descended on the banks of the Ganges river on Thursday, trusting in faith rather than masks to shield them against the coronavirus pandemic during the giant Kumbh Mela festival.
Up to one million people were expected in the city of Haridwar for the first day of the pilgrimage, even though India has the world’s second highest number of cases, more than 10 million, and has recorded more than 150,000 deaths.
Most of the hordes, aged between three and over 80, who walked into the revered but freezing river in the morning mist did not have masks and social distancing was an organisational nightmare.
Negligence of authorities is killing centuries-old Shaikpet Mosque
By Nihad Amani| Published: 8th January 2021 1:40 pm IST
Hyderabad: Centuries-old mosque at Shaikpet once housed worshippers in hundreds at any point of the day. The structure is currently in piles of ruin and is casually left to. Though the authorities blame the lack of funds, the government’s negligence is what led to its current state.
Apart from the obvious unsightliness, the structure now looks akin to a haunted house with the garden area full of weeds and trees, spider webs, broken and damaged pillars, vandalized walls and the rusted gate covered with weeds and climbers.