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Ed Webb

Life stands still in Egypt's City of the Dead amid virus fear - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 21 May 20 - Cached
  • It is a Friday morning in Egypt's City of the Dead, the day of the week when families usually visit cemeteries to remember their deceased loved ones. But these days there are barely any visitors in the vast Cairo cemetery, which stretches over four miles and where tens of thousands of people have been living and working among the tombs for decades.
  • "We used to get money and food from people who visit the cemeteries. But now as everyone is afraid there are almost no visits,"
  • About 40% of Egypt's total workforce of 30 million people works in the informal sector, according to Egypt's manpower ministry, but groups such as the International Labour Organization (ILO) say the number is closer to 60%.
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  • two-thirds of Egypt's informal workers have already lost their jobs due to the policies and public fear around the virus
  • Built only as a burial site in the 7th century, the City of the Dead has transformed into one of the country's largest slums, home to more than 1.5 million people
  • Ibrahim Radwan, 33, a street vendor who sells bread to people visiting the cemeteries at Sayeda Nafisa mosque, a five-minute walk from the City of the Dead, used to get between 15 and 30 customers a day. Now, he says, he is lucky if he gets four customers over a whole weekend.
  • Some 1.6 billion informal workers around the world, representing nearly half of the global labour force, are in immediate danger of losing their livelihoods due to the coronavirus pandemic, the ILO said last week.
  • Haq said he and other workers in the cemetery have been given no guidance on how to protect themselves from contagion while they do their jobs. "We do not know how to bury people who die of coronavirus," he said as he washed down one of the tomb markers. Traditionally, the deceased's close family members clean the body themselves, before simply wrapping it in a white cloth. The family then performs the funeral prayer, and male family members, with the help of cemetery workers, bury the body. All of this happens within 24 hours of death. But in the midst of the outbreak, Egyptians who die after having developed COVID-19 must be buried under the supervision of the country's health ministry, said Mona Mina, general coordinator of Doctors Without Rights, a lobby group.
Ed Webb

2011 Youth unemployment rates adjusted to account for reduced labour force participation - 3 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 25 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Extremely adverse labour market conditions lead many youth to give up the job search altogether or to decide to postpone it and continue their stay in the education system. According to the ILO's 'Global Employment Trends for Youth 2012', the crisis induced withdrawal from the labour force amounts to 6.4 million young people worldwide.
  • Adjusting the youth unemployment rate to account for reduced labour force participation can be obtained by comparing pre-crisis trends in youth labour force participation and the ILO’s estimates of the economically active population. In the figure below, such a comparison is made for each region in 2011, and separately for young men and women.
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