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Los Angeles (AFP) - Strippers in the US state of Washington have won workplace protections after the governor signed a bill of rights putting them on the same legal footing as people in any other job. The legislation, signed into law on Monday by Governor Jay Inslee, is some of the most far-reaching in the country, and sets standards for safety and pay. "Strippers are workers, and they should be given the same rights and protections as any other labor force," said Washington state Senator Rebecca Saldana, who sponsored the bill. "If they are employed at a legal establishment in Washington, the...
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The family and friends of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who died in custody, have commemorated him on the 40th day after his death. His parents and mother-in-law visited Navalny's grave at the Borisovskoye cemetery in Moscow in accordance with Orthodox tradition. His mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, thanked people at the cemetery for their support in her grief. However, she also recalled the recent terrorist attack near Moscow which left at least 139 dead. "Alexei would have expressed his sympathy for all the dead, may they rest in peace, and all the injured," she said, according to...
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Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya expects European democracies to give greater hope and support to people in her home country if there is to be an end to oppression there. European leaders must show the Belarusians that they are not forgotten and that they belong to the democratic world, the activist said at a forum in the Lithuanian parliament in Vilnius on Friday, the BNS news agency reported. According to Tsikhanouskaya, who was driven into exile by Belarus' authoritarian ruler Alexander Lukashenko in 2020, people who had lived under oppression for so many years needed a ...
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Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya expects European democracies to give greater hope and support to people in her home country if there is to be an end to oppression there. European leaders must show the Belarusians that they are not forgotten and that they belong to the democratic world, the activist said at a forum in the Lithuanian parliament in Vilnius on Friday, the BNS news agency reported. According to Tsikhanouskaya, who was driven into exile by Belarus' authoritarian ruler Alexander Lukashenko in 2020, people who had lived under oppression for so many years needed a ...
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Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya expects European democracies to give greater hope and support to people in her home country if there is to be an end to oppression there. European leaders must show the Belarusians that they are not forgotten and that they belong to the democratic world, the activist said at a forum in the Lithuanian parliament in Vilnius on Friday, the BNS news agency reported. According to Tsikhanouskaya, who was driven into exile by Belarus' authoritarian ruler Alexander Lukashenko in 2020, people who had lived under oppression for so many years needed a ...
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According to the Council of Europe, Germany must do much more to combat poverty, housing shortages and the marginalization of people with disabilities. The high level of poverty and social disadvantage in Germany is disproportionate to the country's wealth, according to a report published by the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on Tuesday. Even though Berlin has taken welcome steps towards an accessible social system, further efforts are needed to combat growing inequality. This is because social rights are not always seen as a legally binding obligation in Germany, but are dependent on resourc...
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According to the Council of Europe, Germany must do much more to combat poverty, housing shortages and the marginalization of people with disabilities. The high level of poverty and social disadvantage in Germany is disproportionate to the country's wealth, according to a report published by the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on Tuesday. Even though Berlin has taken welcome steps towards an accessible social system, further efforts are needed to combat growing inequality. This is because social rights are not always seen as a legally binding obligation in Germany, but are dependent on resourc...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed for the first time on Sunday that the now deceased Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was to be freed in a prisoner exchange. Putin said at a press conference in Moscow following his victory in presidential elections accompanied by allegations of manipulation that he had already given his approval for Navalny to be exchanged for Russians imprisoned in the West. "As for Mr Navalny, he is no longer alive," Putin was quoted as saying. "This is a sad event." "Unfortunately, what happened happened," Putin went on to say about the activist's death. "But it happe...
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Bavarian politician Heike Heubach will become the first deaf member of Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, this week. Heubach, a 44-year-old Social Democrat (SPD), is slated to take the seat of current SPD lawmaker Uli Grötsch, who is leaving the Bundestag to serve as the commissioner of Germany's Federal Police. Heubach stood as a candidate in the Augsburg-Land constituency in the 2021 parliamentary elections, but she was narrowly defeated. The president of the German Federation of the Deaf, Helmut Vogel, called Heubach's selection for the Bundestag "a significant step for the sign-language ...
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Representatives of European Union member states on Friday agreed a new law intended to protect human rights in supply chains, diplomats have told dpa, although Germany abstained. The European Supply Chain Act is intended to hold large companies accountable if they profit from child or forced labour outside the EU. Germany, Europe's largest economy, abstained due to divisions within its Social Democrat (SPD)-led coalition government. The liberal Free Democrats (FDP), a minority partner in the government, fear the legislation will unduly burden the economy. The FDP fear that the law will drive c...
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