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Fast fashion, fair wages: Vietnam’s lesson to Bangladesh

AFP, May 2, 2013  Relations hit a sour note: Fashion brand Mango placed orders for clothing items this year at one of the factories housed in the now collapsed building in Bangladesh. Photo: AFP   From factory fires to slave labour,… Continue Reading →

Supreme Court of India – ‘Revolving door’ in lawsuits

M J Antony  May 07, 2013 , BS The Court now limits review petitions to only grave errors in judgments When litigants lose their final appeal in the Supreme Court, most of them learn to grin and bear it. However, lawyers tend… Continue Reading →

The Naked Truth About Nuclear Accident Insurance

By Miles Benson, Link TV MAY 8, 2013, 12:00 PM Going without insurance is described as “going naked” in insurance industry lingo. Going without insurance for the worst hazards in the nuclear power industry is business as usual. One need not… Continue Reading →

Bangladesh: Testimony of 24 year old Survivor Morium Begum, Her Right Arm was Amputated #Vaw

MAY 6, 2013  | globallabourrights.org Death Toll Reaches 665 at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh The death toll at the Rana Plaza building has reached 665 as of Monday morning U.S. Eastern Time.  To date, less than 50 percent of the rubble from the… Continue Reading →

83-year-old nun convicted of sabotage for breach of US atomic complex #WTFnews

Published time: May 09, 2013 01:07, RT Photo from www.facebook.com/SisterMeganRice Share on Tumblr Tags Crime, Military, SciTech, Protest, Law, USA,Security Three activists, including an 83-year-old nun, who broke into a US nuclear weapons facility in Tennessee were convicted on Wednesday of interfering with national security…. Continue Reading →

Nestle Chairman wants to sell the world’s water #humanright

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7iGj4GpAbTM] Please sign this petition addressed to the European Union, calling it to accept that access to water is a human right. See:http://www.right2water.eu/ Nestlé Chairman, Peter Brabeck-Letmathé, has rejected this view in an interview. Under his principles, water is a… Continue Reading →

Look where biometrics (don’t) get you — Armless artist Karipbek Kuyukov ‘denied entry’

7 May 2013, BBC Karipbek Kuyukov says he is disappointed he could not enter the UK A Kazakh artist who was born without arms says he could not get permission to enter the UK last month because he could not… Continue Reading →

Kalu : The Dam-ning Of A River And Its People

By Meenal Tatpati:in youth ki awaaz In the latest minutes of the Forest Advisory Committee a small paragraph titled Agenda Item No. 4 highlights a dam on the river Kalu in Murbad Taluka of Thane District. It talks about the submergence… Continue Reading →

Spies of Punjab, ‘shown steps of gold’

CHANDER SUTA DOGRA, The HinduFor one Sarabjit Singh, whose death brought politicians to his funeral and financial assistance for his family, the Punjab countryside is dotted with scores of men knocking on the doors of courts seeking compensation for the… Continue Reading →

India – Who decides what we eat?

The new biotechnology Bill will allow biotech firms to tamper with our food Devinder Sharma 11-05-2013, Issue 19 Volume 10 t More by the author > Illustration: Vikram Nongmaithem In March, US President Barack Obama signed the HR 933 continuing… Continue Reading →

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