When big companies--like Apple, Levi's, or the Gap--are caught treating their workers badly, they call Verite to help reform their organizations to prevent human rights abuses.READ»
Can design help save the world? To some, the idea itself is a joke. To others, it's at least worth a shot: humanrightslogo.net is crowdsourcing logo designs for the basic concept of "human rights" in a contest ending July 31st. ...READ»
"The key for us is to help them understand what the tools are and then for them to adopt and adapt them for their own purposes," Alec Ross, Hillary Clinton’s senior advisor for innovation, tells us.READ»
Egypt's Internet may be back on, but that country's weeklong web blackout was a wake-up call to the rest of the world about just how fragile the intertubes really are. Ars Technica has a detailed technical breakdown of how Internet ...READ»
Satellites for human rights monitoring predates Google and George Clooney--but they are paving the way for what one UN expert calls "the only purely objective assessment of what has happened on the ground."READ»
The blood of the diamond trade continues to flow in Zimbabwe, according to a Human Rights Watch report detailing violence in the nation’s Marange diamond fields, an area we wrote about in our Dec./Jan. issue.In its June 20 report, ...READ»
Today's philanthropists struggle to balance crisis contributions with investments in longer term, lasting solutions. HealthRight International exemplifies a nonprofit that leverages relatively small resources for a significant ...READ»
Zimbabwe's newfound diamond fields could have helped lift the country from its misery. Instead, they've fueled a cycle of government-sanctioned rape, murder, and thievery -- and pushed the place still closer to collapse.READ»
Commentators have coined a term that is being hotly debated in business, political, and social settings these days - - the “China Price”.
A quick Google search shows that the China Price is variously defined as:
- The ...READ»
"We are confident that the Games coming to China not only promotes our economy but also enhances all social conditions, including education, health, and human rights. "
~ Wang Wei, Secretary General of ...READ»
Two days ago I received a FWD to my inbox that I'd received once
before, but deleted it after reading only the first two lines. This
time I read it in full.
YIKES!
A feeling of disgust that I'd deleted the FWD the first ...READ»
