The job market crisis stems from the difficulty of the agricultural sector and embedded social stigma hard to overcome. The largest decline is in the 15-59 age group. Since the 2011-2012 period, female participation dropped by 7 per cent.
The latest episode of violence saw an English professor murdered by a student who accused of blasphemy for organising a mixed party with males and females. The executive director of the Centre for Social Justice cites the names of educators who paid a heavy price – death or exile – “to exercise their creativity”.
A thousand workers protest in Gia Tân after discovering rotten seasonings and cooking oil in their canteens’ kitchen. Workers at the Tnhh Tm-Dv-Sx plant in in Đồng Nai province complain of headache, blurred vision, abdominal pain and fainting. In Bình Dương, the authorities seize and destroy five tonnes of rotten pig.
Nowadays one “can no longer think that you do not need to take care of your children because you are a man,” says Nada Junior and Senior High School principal. Sharing “household duties and flexibly change their way of working according to the family situation” is part of the curriculum at the Seiko Gakuin junior high school.
As in the past, the faithful are called upon during this year’s Lent to "think with greater intensity of our brothers and sisters who live the faith and [bear] witness to Christ who died and rose in the Holy Land”. And for this reason, “we express our solidarity with them through acts of charity.”
Muslim scholar: "It calls into question the battle of Islamic women, who fight against its imposition every day". After the attacks on the two mosques, there are numerous demonstrations of solidarity by New Zealanders. Calls to Islamic prayer on radio and TV, an invocation in parliament. Some denounce: "excessive Islamophilia".