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India Becomes Top Sugar Producer As Sugarcane Workers Fall Into Debt Due to Climate Change Destabilizing Farming

Sanket Jain December 26, 2022 Sanket Jain

Oppressed people in India have helped build the country into one of the largest sugar producers. But with that has come the bitter taste of labor-law violations and an endless loop of debt. Sanket Jain reports from the sugarcane fields of western Maharashtra.

Kenyan migrant workers gather on January 11 at their country's consulate in Beirut to demand repatriation / credit: Middle East Eye / Matt Kynaston

Kenyan Women Speak Out About Kafala Exploitation in Gulf States

Shadrack Omuka December 1, 2022 Shadrack Omuka

As many as 89 Kenyan domestic workers have been killed in Saudi Arabia over the past two years. That's why former domestic workers warn others about traveling to the Gulf countries to work under the Kafala system. But change may be on the horizon with government officials discussing ways to mitigate migrant worker abuse and exploitation. Shadrack Omuka reports from Kenya.

A poster featuring Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman in Iran who died in the custody of the morality police / credit: Photo by Artin Bakhan on Unsplash

Iran’s Anti-Morality Police Protests: A Different View From the Ground

Max Blumenthal October 21, 2022 Max Blumenthal

Setareh Sadeghi, an Esfahan, Iran-based scholar and teacher, provides Max Blumenthal with a complex view of Iran’s protests against the country’s morality police and the death of Mahsa Amini.

Residents of Ghalwad village were evacuated by the volunteers of a local non-profit organization / credit: Sanket Jain

Photo Essay: Diseases Spike for Indian Farm Workers As Climate Changes

Sanket Jain June 9, 2022 Sanket Jain

India witnessed the hottest March in 122 years. With temperatures several times crossing 49 degrees Celsius (120 degrees Fahrenheit) in northern India, heat waves amplified the existing divisions between the poor and well-off, reports Sanket Jain.

More than 3,000 Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) protested in the city of Kolhapur India's Maharashtra state on October 26 after several of their demands, such as the legal status of full-time workers, better working conditions, adequate pay, medical insurance, and others, weren’t met / credit: Sanket Jain

Photo Essay: India’s Rural Health Workers Fell Ill As Workload Spiked During Pandemic

Sanket Jain April 19, 2022 Sanket Jain

In March 2020, India’s health ministry tasked 1 million Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) with COVID-19 duty in rural areas. This, in a country where 65 percent of its 1.38 billion people live outside cities. Suddenly, ASHAs’ workload increased exponentially. Yet, they remain underpaid and now suffer stress-related chronic ailments, reports Sanket Jain.

Afghan women line up at a World Food Program distribution point / credit: United Nations photo licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Afghan Women’s Frontline Resistance Against 20 Years of ‘Humanitarian Intervention’

Alessandra Bajec October 1, 2021 Alessandra Bajec

Securing women’s rights was used to justify the U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan. However, the Biden administration’s irresponsible pull-out in tandem with the swift, untroubled Taliban return speaks volumes about Washington’s lack of interest to secure respect for human rights and improve women’s lives.

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