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ILO adopts new standard to tackle informal economy

2016-06-15 14:51:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has adopted a new international labour standard aimed at helping hundreds of millions of workers move out of the informal economy where it says they are denied typical worker and social protection.

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Firms sign pledge to tackle gender pay gap

2016-06-15 02:08:46| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

More than two dozen companies sign a pledge to address gender inequality in the workplace by regularly reviewing their own policies.

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Environmental crime is booming. Heres how to tackle it

2016-06-07 12:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Environmental crime, according to a new report released by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and INTERPOL, is booming - and were not talking about neglecting to separate your glass and plastics. These offenses - which include things like cutting down trees, overfishing, dumping toxic waste, and killing endangered species and selling their body parts - are actually much grislier than they may sound. Think Scarface, but with pangolins. INTERPOL estimates that the dollar value of the criminal...

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With dwindling food production, how India can tackle problem of climate change

2016-06-05 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

First Post: A lot has been spoken about climate change over the years. It is one of the major challenges planet earth faces currently amongst various other issues. Even the much talked about COP21 discussions held in Paris last year ended without any tangible and immediate steps to curb the alarming issue of climate change. With global greenhouse gas emissions reaching unprecedented levels despite multiple efforts, the UNs weather agency recently said, Temperatures in the first two months of the year 2016...

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