Labour : More than 4 billion people lack access to social protection, says ILO (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Geneva)
Currently, only 46.9 per cent of the global population are effectively covered by at least one social protection benefit, while the remaining 53.1 per cent, or as many as 4.1 billion people globally, are left wholly unprotected, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has said.

Afghanistan : Silencing women journalists is silencing voice of Afghan women (PRIV)
(IPS, Karachi)
"If I fall into the hands of the Taliban, not only me but my family will be killed," said AB, 23*, who worked as a broadcast journalist for the past seven years and is a well-known face on the television screen.

Rights : Why do organizations fail to keep workplace harassment in check? (PRIV)
(IPS, New Delhi)
"Sexual harassment is not about sexual attraction, it is about power. If an individual uses power plays to subjugate other people, when we have such dynamics going on in the workplace, what we need is a system that fights back against it, which unfortunately, a lot of workplaces, they allow it to persist," says Adrienne Lawrence, anchor and legal analyst, in an interview.