A Russian newspaper that has exposed official corruption and human rights abuses urged Moscow city authorities on Tuesday to investigate what it said was an attack on its offices with a chemical substance.
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KABUL (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Afghanistan’s government has backtracked on an attempt to ban schoolgirls over the age of 12 from reciting poems or singing at public events, following public outcry and criticism from cultural figures and rights campaigners.
Days after critics said a directive sent to schools in the capital marked a backwards step on girls’ rights, the Education Ministry said it was committed to allowing all students - male and female - to take part in cultural and sporting activities.
It said the memo had been issued by the head of Kabul’s education directorate and “does not reflect the policy of the Ministry of Education”.
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DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Fashion brands should fix their “broken industry” by ensuring millions of pandemic-hit workers receive their full wages and by guaranteeing severance pay if jobs are cut, a coalition of more than 200 rights groups said on Monday.
The #PayYourWorkers campaign said brands and retailers that made a profit in 2020 - like Nike, Amazon and Next - could stop garment workers “going hungry” and set up a severance fund by paying manufacturers the equivalent of $0.10 more per t-shirt.
“This is the minimum brands should do on the way to the living wages which must become the standard of a post-pandemic recovery,” said Ineke Zeldenrust from the Clean Clothes Campaign, a coalition member. “This proposal is achievable.”
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is being held in a prison camp in Russia's Vladimir region northeast of Moscow known for its strict control of inmates, a message posted on the opposition politician's Instagram account confirmed on Monday.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is being held in a prison camp in Russia’s Vladimir region northeast of Moscow known for its strict control of inmates, a message posted on the opposition politician’s Instagram account confirmed on Monday.
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Navalny’s precise location had been unknown after his legal team said last week that he had been moved from the nearby Kolchugino jail and that they had not been told where he was being taken.
On Monday, Navalny confirmed he was fine and being held at the IK-2 corrective penal colony in the town of Pokrov, about 100 km (60 miles) east of Moscow.