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Spanish legislation Vote For 'Equality of sexes'

... The draft legislation was received positively by trade unions, but criticised by employers who opposed the compulsory nature of the measures. Spanish women earn about 40 percent less than men on the average, according to a study by the National Statistics Institute. Every year, 380,000 women leave thei...

Sunlight Exposure Reduces Risk Of Breast, Prostate And Colon Cancer

...eople to do is to end up outside unprotected -- to trade cancers for cancers,' said Heather Logan, a member of the Canadian Cancer Society....

Disney in Trouble? Negative Excitement in Disneyland, Paris

...e adventure park. The allegations were made by the trade unions, who accused managers of hiding the informa...ney land claims that this is just a gimmick by the trade unions to exert pressure on the management for wage hike. ...

All Set To Face the Avian Flu?

...l in the price of various commodities, tourism and trade would recede and lead to boycotting of work. The virus is already being detected in domestic fowl in various countries. The IMF said that the business continuity planning will play a very critical component in preventing a crisis in the financial s...

Formula milk suffering due to commercial interests

...od to protect consumers' health and to ensure fair trade practices globally. This being a highly sensitive issue as infants are too vulnerable. Three scientific reviews all agree that the safe level of infant formula protein should be based on a recognized nitrogen conversion factor. While the industry ...

Romantic and discreet trends in lingerie

...chthofen, an underwear expert quoted in the German trade magazine Textilwirtschaft. Discreet is an important trend for the ladies. The embroidery creates "coverage" over body parts that can't be seen through on the bras, which are otherwise well ventilated for the warm half of the year. The décolletage is...

Mama’s milk on sal

There is a booming trade in mothers’ breast milk. Prolacta Bioscience, a for-profit company, started marketing a breast-milk concentrate for $48 an ounce. // Some mothers are also selling their own milk on the Internet for $1 to $2.50 an ounce. But all this is going on with ...

Are We To Be Blamed for The Bird Flu

... relation between the outbreaks and the integrated trade networks involving poultry, eggs, meat, feathers, manure and animal feed. In an article the GRAIN suggests that maybe the migrating swallows and arctic terns are not carrying the H5N1 flu virus after all but the large and unregulated agribusiness c...

HIV Patients Opposes Patenting Of AIDS Drug

... Trade Organisation's TRIPS Agreement that governs trade pacts and intellectual property rights. Three weeks ago, India granted its first patent on a drug to a Hepatitis C treatment produced by Roche. Public interest groups are deeply concerned that this will set a precedent, leading to the patenting...

Britain's Bird Flu Contingency Plans Faces Criticism

...he society, the effect of the bird flu pandemic on trade and the impact of absenteeism owing to illness in business sector undertakings. A detailed report regarding the same has been published in the British Medical Journal. To this David Salisbury, director of Immunisation at Britain's Department of Hea...

Gamble for money, but casino workers gamble with their health!

...It's time operators worked with government and the trade unions and cleaned up their act. If they do not they will see not only poorly motivated workers, but hefty damages claims too. The biggest response by far to our study came from Glasgow, which is another reason why we hope this sector gets its house ...

Bangladesh Bans the Import of Indian Chickens Due To Fear of Bird Flu

...e. Bird flu has delivered a major blow to poultry trade in India. Moshiur Rahman, secretary of poultry Breeders Association of Bangladesh said that production of young chickens have fallen from 4.5 or 5 million to 3.5 or 4 million per week....

Employees Sacked To Tackle Huge Debts Faced By the Hospital

...alth secretary Patricia Hewitt has met workers and trade unions during// a visit to a hospital that is faci...nd job losses are set to be fought strongly by the trade unions. The present scenario is such that one-in-seven have to quit with three-quarters of them like...

Developer Of Vaccine For Cancer Granted A Prestigious Fellowship

... the funding today who was in Chicago as part of a trade mission. Stating that the Professor Frazer has put Queensland on the map with his ground breaking scientific achievements. She said that the fellowship money would help Prof Frazer translate the success of the cervical cancer vaccine to other cancers...

Birds of a Feather: Children, Activists and Bird Lovers Join To Celebrate World Migratory Bird Day in Kenya

...ome experts are casting a big doubt on the poultry trade in Africa, which poses a far greater risk of spreading the avian flu infection....

Delayed Start By Niger On Culling Of Poultry

...flu virus. The role of migratory birds versus the trade in bird products in the spread of avian flu has also been the source of much debate, with conservationists contending the disease's spread has not closely followed known bird migrations.The scientists have not yet reached a consensus on the issue. B...

Cognitive Impairment or Dementia Risk, Pronounced with Ovary loss

..."Like any medical or surgical decision, there is a trade between risk and benefit. Our findings are important for situations where the removal of the ovaries is elective - that is, conducted to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer." Henry Scowcroft, of the charity Cancer Research UK, said: "Removing the ova...

The Multi-Faceted Chemical Benzene

...s, farmer representatives, consumer organizations, trade and industry etc. The Committee also emphasized the need for taking the opinion of the Central Committee on Food Standards (CCFS) which is a statutory body under the PFA Act, 1954. 2) Standards for carbonated beverages, which are best, suited for t...

20 Years Later: Chernobyl’s effects are indelible and lastin

...can never take advantage of sudden improvements in trade and always have to plan well in advance. It's worrying that something that happened thousands of miles away can still have such an effect on us."...

Travel And Tourism Industry Calls For Global Efforts To Limit Sexual Trafficking Of Children

...s roadblocks to the demand for children in the sex trade while addressing the root causes that push children into these horrific forms of exploitation.' In addition to examining ways the travel and tourism industries can combat child sex trafficking, a major goal of the conference is to create collaborat...

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