Write My Way
Ann Marie Lynch
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"Why dance to a universal tune and compete for the unattainable when beating your own drum and dancing to the music of your choice is the epitome of self-actualization?"
Ann Marie Lynch
Articles
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From the tiny twin Island state of Trinidad and Tobago, the most southerly islands in the Caribbean, comprising just over 5,000 sq. km. of land and located 50 minutes by air from the borders of South America, comes the news today that airport security personnel at the country’s main airport have been arrested for engaging in Human Trafficking.
The country, the wealthiest island in the Caribbean, has recently been downgraded in the US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons 2018 Report and is seen as a destination and transit point for adults and children subjected to sex trafficking and forced labour. The report, released on June 20th, 2018 by US Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington DC, downgraded Trinidad and Tobago from Tier 2 to the Tier 2 Watch List.
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The Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in New York in 1911, was the catalyst that led to the formation of a garment workers union and a series of reforms. The recent building collapse in Bangladesh that brought about the deaths of over a thousand factory workers is classified as the worst in the history of such disasters. Warnings to avoid using the building the day before the disaster had been ignored. Garment workers were ordered to return the following day and the building collapsed during the morning rush-hour. According to the Washington, D.C.-based International Labour Rights Forum, at least 1,800 garment workers in Bangladesh alone have died in fires or other disasters in factories since 2005.
On the ILOF’s Blog post: "Labour is not a commodity", the organization heavily criticized US brands who refuse to participate in the move to compensate victims of the Bangladeshi disasters. In the months since, surviving family members of those affected, not only lost, for most of them, the family’s sole earners, but have yet to receive one cent in compensation from the manufacturers.
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Just 3 short years ago the Republic of India was being hailed as a new upcoming economic giant. One look at India’s changing Poverty Maps from 1993, 2004 and 2010, and one would understand that there has been a prevailing trend towards lessening the numbers of the critically poor in that nation. Whilst in comparison to the so-called Western world, the poverty line of 30 Rupees per day in a country with notoriously high food prices, may be a drop in the bucket in ratio to what “we” need to survive, the lines of poverty demarcation are indeed shrinking in India.
An excess of 1.2 billion people now inhabit India, making it the second most populated country in the world. In the past 10 years the Indian Economy has been placed in the top 10% worldwide and is now the 11th largest economy, tipped to become the largest economy by the year 2050.
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At the end of the Second World War there were work shortages in Europe and labour shortages in Britain. The government began looking for immigrants.
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About 157,000 Poles were the first to be allowed to settle in the UK, partly due to ties made during the World War II. They were joined by Italians but it was not enough to meet the need. Many men from the West Indies had fought for the “mother country” but returned to civilian life with few opportunities. Their sense of patriotism, coupled with the need to find work, steered them towards the UK. Despite an apparent official reluctance to allow immigration from the fast-disappearing empire, the government could not recruit enough people from Europe and turned to these men.
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On 22 June 1948, the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in London, delivering hundreds of men from the West Indies. Many had returned to rejoin the RAF. Others had been encouraged by adverts for work. The day marked what would become a massive change to British society – the start of mass immigration to the UK and the arrival of different cultures.
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