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21 October 2024

Two senior officials from South Korea's construction workers' union, Kim Sun-jung, vice chief of the Gyeonggi Province Construction Branch, and Moon Seung-jin, director of the Seoul-North Gyeonggi Construction Branch, stage a protest atop a 70-meter-high advertising tower in Yeouido, Seoul, on October 2, 2024. The protest, which continues as of October 21, 2024, aims to oppose wage cuts and growing job insecurity in the construction industry. The protesters demand legislation that ensures priority hiring for domestic workers in an industry increasingly reliant on foreign labor. They also call for the withdrawal of a proposed daily wage cut of 20,000 KRW, arguing that it would further endanger the already unstable livelihoods of workers. This protest follows the breakdown of wage negotiations between construction companies and the union. While employers justify the cuts due to economic pressures, the union contends that such reductions would disproportionately harm workers who already face job instability. They vow to remain on the tower until legal solutions are enacted to address these issues.

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21 October 2024

Two senior officials from South Korea's construction workers' union, Kim Sun-jung, vice chief of the Gyeonggi Province Construction Branch, and Moon Seung-jin, director of the Seoul-North Gyeonggi Construction Branch, stage a protest atop a 70-meter-high advertising tower in Yeouido, Seoul, on October 2, 2024. The protest, which continues as of October 21, 2024, aims to oppose wage cuts and growing job insecurity in the construction industry. The protesters demand legislation that ensures priority hiring for domestic workers in an industry increasingly reliant on foreign labor. They also call for the withdrawal of a proposed daily wage cut of 20,000 KRW, arguing that it would further endanger the already unstable livelihoods of workers. This protest follows the breakdown of wage negotiations between construction companies and the union. While employers justify the cuts due to economic pressures, the union contends that such reductions would disproportionately harm workers who already face job instability. They vow to remain on the tower until legal solutions are enacted to address these issues.

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21 August 2024

Indian film director Vivek Agnihotri with senior journalist Swapan Dasgupta and others silently pray for two minutes during a protest to condemn the rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata, India, on August 21, 2024. Thousands of outraged Indian protesters, including arch-rival sports fans and lawyers, call for justice on August 21, after the rape and murder of a doctor as widespread strikes by healthcare workers enter a second week.

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2 April 2024

Two Iranian schoolboys are looking at a U.S. flag burning by protesters during a protest gathering to condemn the Israeli airstrike against the Iranian consulate in Syria, at Palestine Square in Tehran, Iran, on April 1, 2024. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, and his deputy, Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus.

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26 August 2021

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 25, 2021: Police officers lead away two senior protesters from Extinction Rebellion who were arrested for blocking Oxford Circus on the third day of the 'Impossible Rebellion', a new wave of protests and civil disobedience actions planned to continue for at least two weeks to demand an immediate stop to all new fossil fuel investment by the British government and financial corporations amid climate crisis and ecological emergency on 25 August 2021 in London, England.

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