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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Victor Ahiuma-Young, reporting from Geneva, Switzerland ORGANISED Labour in Nigeria, yesterday, at the ongoing 106th session of the International Labour Conference, ILC, taking place in Geneva, Switzerland, warned the International community community that provision of decent work was the only solution to world peace. Addressing the General Assembly of the ILC, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Ayuba Wabba, who was also responding to the report of the Director-General of the International Labour Organization, ILO, Mr. Guy Ryder, accepted the report that economic and development plans could only make meaning if there was decent work and respect for the principles of tripartism and collective bargaining. According to him, decent work was a solution to global peace, insisting that there could not be sustainable development without respect for human dignity, saying: “Similarly, we share the view that social justice through decent work is a panacea to global peace, a...

http://ift.tt/2rBWxtP For Emjay Rechsteiner, Amsterdam-based producer of "The Devil's Double" which starred Britain's Dominic Cooper as a body-double for the playboy son of Saddam Hussein, one of the biggest worries is that access to British stars and facilities could become more complicated. For British film producers plying their wares at the Cannes festival, the prospect of Brexit represents something between a tale of suspense and an outright horror movie. There are many worried faces amongst all the razzamatazz at the glitzy festival in the south of France — namely those of British film-makers fretting over what exiting the European Union will mean for their country’s powerful movie industry, and the European producers who often work with them. “We’re heartbroken, really,” said British producer Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock, who is currently working with a Paris-based director on a documentary about intelligence agencies. “My time has always been spent tra...

http://ift.tt/2oRXaxH The Fyre Festival was aborted Friday after hundreds of partygoers — with some paying more than $100,000 per person — arrived only to find relief-camp style tents and rudimentary sandwiches rather than the promised lavish experience. Mark RALSTON / AFP Organizers of a music festival in The Bahamas that was billed as a luxury getaway but collapsed in chaos have been hit with a $100 million lawsuit alleging fraud. The Fyre Festival was aborted Friday after hundreds of partygoers — with some paying more than $100,000 per person — arrived only to find relief-camp style tents and rudimentary sandwiches rather than the promised lavish experience. “The festival’s lack of adequate food, water, shelter and medical care created a dangerous and panicked situation among attendees… that was closer to ‘The Hunger Games’ or ‘Lord of the Flies’ than Coachella,” reads the lawsuit filed on behalf of Daniel Jung in Los Angeles. The festival, led by New York rapper Ja Rule...