By Lisa Bryant Paris 28 December 2007 Six French aid workers convicted of attempted kidnapping in Chad are on their way back to France where they are to serve out their sentences. On Wednesday, the six were sentenced to eight years of hard labor, aft...
By Kari Barber Dakar 16 November 2007 Humanitarian officials warn that climate change along with higher food prices and growing populations are threatening food supplies in Africa. World Food Program Executive Director Josette Sheeran says that pract...
By Mil Arcega Washington 10 October 2007 Agricultural experts say stepped up efforts to crack down on illegal immigration is having an unwanted effect on American farmers. Some claim recent raids and threats to prosecute companies that hire undocumen...
By Challiss McDonough Ghazl el-Mahalla, Egypt 27 September 2007 Thousands of workers have taken control of one of Egypt's biggest state-owned textile factories in a continuing protest over pay and work conditions. Tensions are mounting as the strike...
By Carolyn Weaver New York City 10 September 2007 Toxic dust clouds resulted from the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings About 3,000 people died in the September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. Six years later, experts say the...
By Mil Arcega Washington 04 September 2007 Americans work longer hours and produce more per person than their counterparts in other developed countries. But according to the findings of a United Nations report released Monday, worker productivity aro...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 24 August 2007 International humanitarian agencies and local aid workers in Somalia say they fear that camps for internally displaced people in the southern outskirts of the capital, Mogadishu, may be the target of a military op...
By Barbara Schoetzau New York 31 January 2007 Caesar Borja Jr.'s dream came true Wednesday. The college student met privately with President George Bush to make the case for expanded health care coverage for all workers at the World Trade Center site...
By Rowan Reid Johannesburg 07 April 2006 World Health Day celebrations in Luzaka, Zambia The World Health Organization says a shortage in trained health workers is reaching a crisis point worldwide an...
Ted Landphair A tame-sounding term "outsourcing" has become a red-hot election-year buzzword. To outsource is to lay off American workers earning salaries and fringe benefits and hire different worker...