Category: WORKPLACE VIOLENCE
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Violence at work Legal group seeks federal inquiry into Mississippi prisons
JACKSON, Miss. — Prisoner advocates are calling on the federal government to investigate Mississippi’s prison system for possible civil rights violations, saying the violence of recent days highlights deliberate violations of inmates’ constitutional right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. A formal letter and protest came Tuesday even as the mother of one…
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Violence at work Germany’s Merkel urges climate action in New Year message
Chancellor Angela Merkel is telling Germans in her New Year message that “everything humanly possible” must be done to tackle climate changeBy GEIR MOULSON Associated PressDecember 31, 2019, 12:21 AM3 min readBERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel is telling Germans in her New Year message that “everything humanly possible” must be done to tackle climate change.…
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Violence at work Colombia’s conflict spills over to museum of memory
BOGOTA, Colombia — On a vacant grassy lot squeezed between several smoggy highways lies the property where Colombia’s government hopes to build a large museum paying homage to victims of the country’s long civil conflict. But for now, the terrain occupied only by a rusted cubic metal sculpture is a reminder of how polarized this…
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Violence at work India prime minister addresses rally as protest deaths climb
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has used a rally for his Hindu nationalist party to defend a contentious new citizenship law, accusing the opposition of pushing the country into a “fear psychosisBy EMILY SCHMALL Associated PressDecember 22, 2019, 12:21 PM5 min readNEW DELHI — Protesters angered by India’s new citizenship law that excludes Muslims defied…
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Violence at work Uncharted Brexit waters: UK’s Boris Johnson faces 2020 tests
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is poised to take Britain out of the European Union at the end of this month but he faces the enormous task of forging a new trade agreement with the EUBy GREGORY KATZ Associated PressJanuary 3, 2020, 9:42 AM5 min readLONDON — After a remarkable political turnaround, Prime Minister Boris Johnson…
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Violence at work Iraqi artists pay tribute to dead protesters with sculptures
An Iraqi artist is paying tribute to killed anti-government protesters with sculptures made by young Iraqis he has trained for freeBy NASSER NASSER Associated PressDecember 29, 2019, 7:01 AM3 min readBAGHDAD — The sculptures carved by seven art trainees were lined up outside a makeshift workshop in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square. With them were posters depicting…
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Violence at work Brazilians arrive in waves at the US-Mexico border
EL PASO, Texas — Growing up along the U.S.-Mexico border, hotel clerk Joe Luis Rubio never thought he’d be trying to communicate in Portuguese on a daily basis. But with hundreds of Brazilians crossing from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, each week, the Motel 6 by the airport has become a stepping stone for thousands of the…
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Violence at work Voting with their feet: French march against pension reforms
Thousands of people have marched through French cities as unions cranked up pressure against the government’s retirement reforms. Paris deployed thousands of police to prevent violence but the main march ended peacefullyBy ANGELA CHARLTON and NADINE ACHOUI-LESAGEDecember 10, 2019, 8:15 PM5 min readPARIS — Cranking up the pressure on President Emmanuel Macron, thousands of union…
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Violence at work Libyan authorities say prominent journalist arrested
Libyan authorities say a prominent local journalist has been detained by an intelligence body that’s loosely allied with the U.N.-backed governmentBy by ISABEL DEBRE Associated PressDecember 16, 2019, 6:29 PM2 min readCAIRO — A prominent Libyan journalist was detained by an intelligence body that’s loosely allied with the U.N.-backed government, authorities said Monday. Intelligence agents…
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Violence at work Fleeing war, poverty, African migrants face racism in Egypt
CAIRO — Two Sudanese sisters, Seham and Ekhlas Bashir, were walking their children home from elementary school in a Cairo neighborhood when a group of Egyptian teenagers crowded around them. The boys taunted them, calling them “slave” and other slurs. Then they tried to rip off Ekhlas’ clothes. An onlooker intervened, scolding the young harassers,…