Daily Round-up|Thousands protest wage cuts and neoliberal reforms in Uruguay and other stories
Channel: Peoples Dispatch
Date: 2021-09-16

In today’s episode of the Daily Round-up, we take a look at the general strike observed across Uruguay to protest the government’s neoliberal reforms; a report by the International Truth and Justice Project on the custodial torture of minority Tamil detainees by police and military officials in Sri Lanka; the crackdown on protests in southern Yemen over growing poverty and the lack of basic public services; and renewed calls to shut down the Rikers Island jail facility in the US amid reports of worsening conditions. 

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