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  • Congressional Group Urges New Approach To Global Trade 1 Dec 2009 22:50 GMT
    ... up to certain standards, including labor and human rights protection, safety, environmental considerations and national security. ... prohibit any ban on Buy American and anti-sweatshop measures. It would create a "Super Committee" chaired ...

  • Criterion's Harlan County USA 1 Dec 2009 19:33 GMT
    ... Besides being a great documentary, Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award–winning ... people are fighting for are their basic, human rights. Coal mining is definitely one of the ... most dangerous and toughest jobs imaginable. The working conditions are unsafe, atrocious, filthy and miserable. The ...

  • Score one for the anti-sweatshop crowd 28 Nov 2009 11:54 GMT
    ... college try when it comes to tackling anti-sweatshop issues. While the movement has scored a ... independent labor rights monitoring organization that investigates working conditions in collegiate apparel factories around the world. ... are ended. Ultimately, it’s about workers and human rights, and if you end the contract you ...

  • Students rally for justice in India tragedy 30 Nov 2009 02:22 GMT
    ... behavior and violation of the Bhopalis’ basic human rights. “The Bhopal gas tragedy was the worst ... their association with Dow, much like the anti-sweatshop campaign that forced the campus to stop purchasing ...

  • "The Meaning Of The Gift-Giving Season, According To Rev. Billy Of The Church Of Life After Shopping" 28 Nov 2009 22:35 GMT
    ... has problems in terms of environmental issues, human rights issues, or in terms of the civic ... little tourist family. We’ve got nothing but sweatshop goods on these shelves ! This is the den ...

  • Nunavik youth services still a dysfunctional mess 26 Nov 2009 20:37 GMT
    ... Nunavik youth services still a dysfunctional mess “A repetitive ... report, published in 2007 by the Quebec human rights commission, concluded that the youth protection system ... applicants often refuse job offers because the working conditions and benefits offered aren't attractive enough. The ...

  • We demand food sovereignty now! 26 Nov 2009 20:34 GMT
    ... ‘Food sovereignty is the real solution to the tragedy ... this must not undermine food sovereignty and human rights. Emergency aid should be procured as locally ... and their communities must be assured safe working conditions and fair wages. Youth participants of the ...

  • Web Gains in Importance After Dymovsky 27 Nov 2009 02:30 GMT
    ... After a provincial policeman’s YouTube appeal to Prime Minister Vladimir ... Minister Vladimir Putin about corruption and unbearable working conditions became an Internet sensation earlier this month, ... has only grown after Major Dymovsky’s actions,” human rights campaigner Lev Ponomaryov told The St. Petersburg ...

  • Sunday Celebrity: Thilagavathy I P S shining both in career and literature 28 Nov 2009 20:10 GMT
    ... Here’s one shining both in uniformed services, her chosen ... the Tamil Nadu cadre, she is a human rights activist, feminist, besides being novelist. G. Thilakavathy ... the women press workers and their pathetic working conditions. This triggered the writer and the humanist ...

  • Wal-Mart launches labor abuse probe 27 Nov 2009 06:14 GMT
    ... Wal-Mart launches probe into labor abuse allegations By Chen Hong ... into the findings of a New-York based human rights group, which levied serious labor abuse allegations ...

  • Wal-Mart launches probe into labor abuse allegations 27 Nov 2009 06:14 GMT
    ... Wal-Mart launches probe into labor abuse allegations By Chen Hong ... into the findings of a New-York based human rights group, which levied serious labor abuse allegations ...

  • Students get a glimpse of new Gator uniforms 25 Nov 2009 06:11 GMT
    ... be made with cheap labor in poor working conditions. Group President Emily Flynn called for UF ... “UF would be taking a stand for human rights,” she said. UF athletic association spokesman Steve ... questioning whether UF merchandise was made using sweatshop labors. While students readily took the fliers, ...

  • Should We Defend Undocumented Workers? 23 Nov 2009 21:51 GMT
    ... One winter morning in 1996, Border Patrol agents charged ... workers in order to lower wages and working conditions. But very often immigration raids are used ... home has been closed? The lack of human rights itself is a factor contributing to migration, ...

  • Thanks for the Hands that Harvest Our Food 24 Nov 2009 06:07 GMT
    ... Thanksgiving break, for many of us college students, ... Murrow asked growers in Florida about the working conditions of their workers, some of them admitted: ... in their supply chain to guarantee basic human rights protections, and work together with the workers ...

  • Understanding the Lisbon Treaty (I): main policy guidelines 24 Nov 2009 08:25 GMT
    ... International Internet Magazine. Baltic States news & analytics ... the constant improvements of peoples’ living and working conditions as the essential objective of the EU ... principles of liberty, democracy and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and of the rule ...


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