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Business on water

mardi 19 mai 2015 à 14:00

Baltimore is shutting off poor people's water , while businesses get away with owing much larger water bills.

Qatar's foreign workers

mardi 19 mai 2015 à 14:00

Qatar invited a BBC team to observe its progress in improving the treatment of foreign workers, then arrested them for two days for not sticking to the official tour.

Perhaps some improvements have been made, but most of the unjust system remains in force.

Trade treaties

mardi 19 mai 2015 à 14:00

Some "trade treaties" require certain minimum standard of rights for workers, but the US government hardly enforces them; it says that even repeated assassination of union leaders doesn't count as noncompliance .

Protest is rebellion in Burundi

mardi 19 mai 2015 à 14:00

Burundi's president declares that protest is rebellion so protesters will be punished as rebels .

The coup has nothing to do with the protests, except that both opposed the same president. To equate them is blatant contempt for logic, such as we frequently see from right-wing politicians in the US and the UK.

Ramadi

mardi 19 mai 2015 à 14:00

Iraq plans to send Shi'ite militias to reconquer the Sunni city of Ramadi.