"Making a living…What do we gain by working?”: the question was the center of the training course that 20 youth from France, Estonia, Lithuania, Spain participated in for the second session of « Hemispheres », the program of training-action organized by Frères des Hommes. For three weeks, these youth from 21 to 30 years old worked very hard, with associations from the South, partners of Frères des Hommes, on issues concerning the right to work and rights at work. According to the International (...) Next ...

Imre Malva, a 28-year-old Estonian, uses his artistic skills to make European consumers aware of the indecent working conditions prevailing in India and China. His action is part of the Hemispheres training and action programme, set up by Frères des Hommes, which Imre attended last August. Imre is an artist and a photography and graphic design graduate from Estonia. As an active member of the Estonian association EstYes where young people meet for cultural exchanges, he enrolled in (...) Next ...

" The informal sector represents more than 80% of the workforce in Peru and 84% of the workers are living below the poverty line ", said Abelardo Vildoso Chirinos, from the Peruvian organization Adec-ATC. The workers’ situation is no better in India. According to Duarte Barreto, member of the association Fedina, “the issues are the same.” Labour law and collective mobilization rights: at the second session of “Hemispheres”, in August 2009, lectures by members of two partner associations of (...) Next ...

“Welcome to Nobody Cares!”: these words were written on a big banner hung across one end of Freedom avenue, the “Champs-Elysées” of Kaunas, Lithuania’s second largest city. This is how, on Friday October 30, 2009, Egle Majauskaitė, a young Lithuanian girl and a “Hemispheres” activist, invited the passers-by to delve into the hidden realities of our consumer society, seen by the exploited workers of the South. Mock road signs, covered in stickers of ironical drawings made by Egle and her friends for (...) Next ...

What are the relationships between migration, agriculture and consumption? This is the question Laura Lucadello hoped to find some answers to during the two conferences set in October 2009 around Padua, in Northern Italy. Laura is Italian and took part in the first session of “Hemispheres” in April 2009 which dealt with sustainable agriculture. In Italy, migration issues are a recent hot topic. But seldom are they related to solidarity development. This is why Laura decided to share the (...) Next ...