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Featured: Covid-19

Categories Fellowship | United States of America

Workers suffer as US pandemic relief bill goes nowhere in Congress

March 16, 2021December 18, 2020 by Walter Smolarek

As the COVID-19 pandemic spirals out of control in the United States, inaction and deadlock in the government have left workers to fend for themselves amid mounting unemployment.

Categories China | United States of America

The difference between the US and China’s response to COVID-19 is st …

September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 by Vijay Prashad

While US continues to suffer the devastating impacts of poor management of the COVID-19 pandemic, China’s people-centered approach serves as a model to follow

Categories South Korea
South Korea doctors strike ends

South Korean doctors end strike after deal with government 

September 4, 2020 by Peoples Dispatch

Thousands of doctors, medical interns and trainees and medical students went on strike from August 23, protesting the government’s proposed healthcare reform plan

Categories Chile

Chilean senators present bill to allow COVID-19 patients to vote in Oc …

September 3, 2020 by Peoples Dispatch

Chilean movements and parties have continued campaigning in order to urge the citizens to vote in favor of a new Constitution

Categories India

Understanding India’s low COVID-19 death rate

August 21, 2020August 21, 2020 by Subodh Varma

Contrary to the Narendra Modi government’s claims, India’s low case fatality rate in the COVID-19 pandemic is not because of any well-thought out strategy. It is rather due to a relatively young population and some statistical tricks

Categories South Africa

Pregnancy and labor during COVID-19

August 17, 2020 by Nation Nyoka

New Frame traces the coronavirus through the cycle of life in a series of intimate portraits from Gauteng. This is what new mothers are experiencing in the time of Covid-19.

Categories Peru

Peru hit hard by second wave of COVID-19

August 13, 2020August 12, 2020 by Tanya Wadhwa

Peru is reporting more than 7,000 new cases everyday and has the highest per capita death toll in the Latin American and Caribbean region

Categories Myanmar
Myanmar garment workers

Union intervention wins back garment workers’ jobs in Myanmar

August 12, 2020 by Peoples Dispatch

The intervention by the Industrial Workers Federation of Myanmar has led to the reinstatement of 168 garment workers who had been laid off by two companies during the COVID-19 lockdown in March and April

Categories Colombia

Two years of Duque’s Colombia: deepening neoliberalism, increased vi …

August 11, 2020 by Zoe Alexandra

Colombian social leader Milena Ochoa analyses the past two years of Iván Duque’s government and explains how its functioning has been completely in favor of big business, landowners, paramilitaries and the corrupt

Categories United States of America

How Trump managed to lead the world with the worst response to COVID-1 …

August 4, 2020 by Vijay Prashad

The United States leads the world in terms of absolute numbers of confirmed cases of COVID-19 as well as deaths. Vijay Prashad looks into how the US continues to fail to contain the spread of coronavirus

Categories South Africa
Hospitality workers South Africa

South Africa’s restaurant sector reels under impact of COVID-19 …

July 29, 2020July 29, 2020 by Peoples Dispatch

It is estimated that about 70% jobs in the restaurant industry are already lost due to the COVID-19-induced lockdown. Restaurant and alcohol industry workers staged two countrywide protests last week

Categories South Africa
BidAir South Africa

South African government to release funds following BidAir workers’ …

July 29, 2020 by Peoples Dispatch

Following a picket outside the labor department, the commissioner of Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) has committed to release funds for the payment of workers’ wages for the month of May by July 30

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