 Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup with People's Dispatch where we bring you some of the top stories from across the globe. Let's take a look at today's headlines. Protest in Guatemala demand resignation of President Alejandro Giamatini. Rio Tinto workers in Canada go on strike against temporary contracts. WHO calls for moratorium on booster doses as vaccine divide grows. Wale appeals court-ordered compensation for 2019, promidino dam tragedy. Thousands of people across Guatemala have been taking to the streets since July 29. Protesters are demanding the resignation of right-wing president Alejandro Giamatini and his cabinet. Undress has grown against widespread corruption in the government's pandemic response as of August 5. Guatemala had recorded over 377,000 cases and 10,524 deaths. The pandemic has worsened economic conditions with around 59% of people living below the poverty line. Guatemala ranks 6th in the world in terms of malnutrition as per the UN. The country is among the 23 global hotspots where hunger is expected to rise in the next three months. It is in this context that tens of thousands of Guatemalans observed a national strike on July 29. The indigenous communities, trade unions, students and social movements are all part of the struggle. People are also demanding the resignation of Attorney General Maria Consuelo Porras. This was after she dismissed the head of the Special Prosecutor's Office Against Impunity or FECI Juan Francisco Sandoval. He later stated that he was prevented from investigating corruption cases with links to the president. These included cases related to the acquisition of COVID-19 vaccines and supplies. Fearing for his safety, Sandoval fled the country shortly after he was dismissed. Protest continued on August 5 under the banner of Plurinational Strike 5A. The call was issued by ancestral indigenous authorities to demand that Sandoval be reinstated. The indigenous Mayan, Garifuna and Zinka communities have been at the forefront of the struggle. Roadblocks were organized in several areas on Thursday, including Cuba, Alta Verapaz, Camotan and San Vincent Pacaya. Unions and members of the Association of University Students have also held protests. They have denounced the 2021 budget, which will impose cuts on education and health. In our next story, we go to Canada, where workers employed by Rio Tinto are in their second week on strike. Around 900 workers at a smelting facility in Kitimat and a power plant in Kemano walked out on July 25. Organized by the Uniform Union, they are protesting the company's refusal to hire full-time workers. Negotiations between Rio Tinto and the Union had started on June 7. The Union stated that it had proposed changes to workers' retirement income for the first time in 10 years. It had also asked to move younger workers from defined contribution to defined benefit pension plans. The talks were taking place based on over 300 worker grievances. These were related to the company's use of temporary contract labor. As for Rio Tinto's new terms, a temporary employer would have to work 2,000 ATRs straight to qualify for company seniority benefits. Moreover, if someone worked less than 1,040 ATRs straight in a 6-month block, they would lose their benefits for the next 6 months. The union also stated that temporary employees would not be eligible for earned time off during preferred periods. The company also proposed cuts to post-retirement health care coverage for people hired after July 2021. The Union issued a 72-hour strike notice on July 21. However, Rio Tinto approached labor relations board to get some workers classified as essential employees. The company announced on July 26 that it would maintain its operations at 35% as of August 5. They had made no talks between the company and the union. The WHO has called for a moratorium on booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines. This follows news that several countries, including Israel and the US, might administer a third dose. This will be done to protect vulnerable populations against the variants of the virus. WHO head Tedros Adhanom has asked countries to halt these plans till September. This is so that at least 10% of the world's population can be vaccinated. Over 4 billion doses have been administered globally so far. Out of this, more than 80% have gone to middle-income and middle-upper and high-income countries. 101 vaccine doses are being given for every 100 people in high-income countries. The figure for the poorest country stands at 1.7 doses for 100 people. The US and European countries on average have inoculated at least 50% of the population, whereby only 1.8% of people on the African continent have been fully vaccinated. COVID-19 deaths in Africa reached a record peak in the week that ended on August 1. As for the WHO, 6,400 deaths were reported marking a 2% rise. South Africa and Indonesia alone accounted for over 55% of the casualties. Until the start of July, Senegal had recorded less than 44,000 cases and 1,166 deaths. However, the country documented more than 20,000 cases and 250 deaths in the last month alone. 12 million doses were delivered to Africa through the COVAX initiative in July. In order to fully vaccinate 10% of the population by September, the continent will need 183 million more doses. And for a final story, we look at the 2019 Promo Dino dam collapse in Brazil. On January 25, a tailings dam owned by the Bali mining company suffered a major failure. The dam was located at an iron core mine in the state of Minas Gerais. The collapse triggered a mud flow that ran through the mines, offices and houses, roads and farms located nearby. 272 people were killed, 131 of whom were workers directly linked to Bali. A labor court ruled in June that the company must give 1,000 million realts in compensation to the families of each worker. However, Bali recently filed an appeal against the court's decision. Here is a video featured by Brazil Defato on this issue. After Bali's appeal to reverse the indemnity payment to the families of workers killed in its 2019 environmental crime, the Federal University of Minas Gerais released a technical note on the case. The document contests the arguments and actions of the mining company. We wrote in the technical note that the company made a deliberate choice to increase the efficiency of mineral extraction to the detriment of the well-being and life of its employees. The study argues that death damage should be applied in this case, although this type of indemnity is not explicit in the Brazilian criminal code. What is death damage? These are the moral damages that the company owes to the fatal victims. Minutes before the collapse of the dam, this dead man was alive. He was a living person who saw the mud rush over his body. He saw the imminent death. According to the Meta-based Union, plaintiff of the action received by the labor court, the lack of legal precedents favors the company. The labor reform, which entered into force in 2017, also hampers the possibility of an indemnity. This one is a new decision on which the labor court does not have other decisions to base its views. We pay too low amounts of compensation in the labor court. The situation was aggravated by the labor reform, which seeks to establish a ceiling for these indemnities, something unconstitutional from our point of view and from the constitution's point of view. The union made a new appeal to seek the reveal of the indemnity amounts in addition to the application of law. For the university researchers, it is the judiciary's role to change the way companies as Vale operates in order to prevent new tragedies from happening. We currently have 47 critical level dams in Brazil. 28 of these dams are Vale's direct responsibility. So the question is, when will the next tragedy be?