8 days ago by Labor Rights

By Evelyn Holt, Intern, International Labor Rights Forum Do you know where your computer came from? Most likely not. Parts are manufactured and assembled all over the world, and labor protections are hard to identify and track. ILRF has also done research and campaigning on the substances such as co ...

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12 days ago by veganshoelady

Flipping through the new VegNews yesterday, I came across Rory Freedman’s brief retelling of a confrontation with a callous, nasty fur-wearer. In typical fashion, the perpetrator made it exceptionally clear that she didn’t give a flying fudge about the living beings who suffered brutish lives and ex ...

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14 days ago by Labor Rights

By Steve O. Akoth, Labour Awareness and Resource Centre When reports appeared in the media two years ago detailing failure in mortgage repayments in the United States, the government of Kenya alongside many others in Africa, claimed that that was a US affair. The treasury bureaucrats and politicians ...

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15 days ago by EV

I am considering myself as someone who is going through life with open eyes and knows a little about the underbelly of capitalism. But yet, when I heard the words “designer fashion” and names like Valentino or Dolce&Gabbana, well lit studios used to come to my mind where the nimble hands of highly p ...

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18 days ago by policyandphilanthropy

Speaking to a capacity crowd at the Fairmont Hotel, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof said, “We’ve all won the lottery of birth, and with that comes some real responsibility.” Kristof and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, are the authors of a new book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into O ...

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20 days ago by Daniel J. Smith

http://www.davidskarbek.com/uploads/Sweatshops.pdf

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20 days ago by Daniel J. Smith

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/unintended-consequences-for-children/

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21 days ago by Johnito

by Stephen Lendman In July 2008, SweatFree Communities (SFC) released a report titled, " Subsidizing Sweatshops: How Our Tax Dollars Fund the Race to the Bottom, and What Cities and States Can Do" in which it studied 12 factories in nine countries that produce employee uniforms for nine major compan ...

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21 days ago by Jason

photo taken from wordpress.com Are sweatshops just as bad as slavery?

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23 days ago by sakerfa

In July 2008, SweatFree Communities (SFC) released a report titled, “Subsidizing Sweatshops: How Our Tax Dollars Fund the Race to the Bottom, and What Cities and States Can Do” in which it studied 12 factories in nine countries that produce employee uniforms for nine major companies. Widespread huma ...

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