TAKE ACTION ON CHILD SLAVERY IN UZBEKISTAN 03/10/2010
 Straight from antislavery.org's website: State-sponsored forced labour, particularly of children, underpins the cotton industry in Uzbekistan. Each year, schools are closed down for the duration of the cotton harvest and children, some as young as ten years old, are forced to pick cotton by hand for little or no pay. Children who refuse to work or fail to meet their targets are punished by beatings and can be threatened with expulsion from school. Human rights groups estimate that up to 200,000 children are involved each year. READ MORE.. FAIR TRADE EXPLAINED BY GLOBAL EXCHANGE 03/09/2010
The Global Exchange website does a good job of answering the who, what, where, why and when about FAIR TRADE. Bookmark this link to refer back to and pass along.   Directly from the website of cleanclothes.org: The companies who set the standards in today’s global garment industry – including multinational retailers like Carrefour, Tesco, Walmart, Aldi and Lidl – have a responsibility to ensure that the workers who make the clothes they sell are paid a living wage. Anything less means directly profiting from their poverty and hunger. READ FULL ARTICLE The Clean Clothes Campaign at cleanclothes.org is a terrific organization. Bookmark it! They are champions for those in need. Brought to you by notforsalecampaign.org, the wonderful non profit organization dedicated to fighting human trafficking around the globe.  Straight From The Horse's Heart 03/04/2010
"The Magic is not to Whisper to a Horse, but to Listen..." Author R.T. Fitch  I ran across this quote by R.T. Fitch today. It touched my heart! Directly from Fitch's website: "Close your eyes, inhale deeply, listen intently, and bask in the ambiance of the smell of hay, the sound of a horse’s nicker, and the warmth that comes to your heart when in the presence of our spiritual cousins, the Horse." Another quote from Fitch's website: "This site is the virtual barn, the counter part to the physical barn where author R.T. Fitch listens, contemplates, and shares the teachings of those who cannot speak for themselves." Check out my new page Straight From The Horse's Heart about protecting our wild horses. A must read for any horse and animal lover. Greed & Bovine Growth Hormone 03/03/2010
I posted this on its own page called MILK But it was worth noting here ...  Interesting website worth checking out This youtube report is so worth watching. It shows how news stories are bought and sold and buried or aired at the mercy of the all mighty dollar. It's a practice that's been going on for years .... There's such inhumane corruption in the world. It's an integral part of the fabric of the human condition, isn't it? We're stitched together by greed and monumentally unethical practices. Sigh... I know there is good and that there are good people. It's not all dark. And there's such beauty in nature. But massive greed is undeniable... PLAY FAIR CAMPAIGN 01/21/2010
THE PLAY FAIR CAMPAIGN SIGN THE PETITION THAT TELLS SPORTSWEAR COMPANIES: “It’s time to up your game and start clearing the hurdles for workers’ rights!” Goodweave's Campaign to End Child Labor 01/19/2010
I posted information on Goodweave under FEATURED BLOGS today, but thought it was important to post here because it's such a great program with critically valuable information to learn and share about child slavery in the rug/carpet industry.  photo from Goodweave Nearly 250,000 South Asian children are exploited to weave carpets for American homes. GoodWeave's Campaign to End Child Labor works to stop this illegal practice by educating consumers, interior designers and the carpet industry about child-labor-free rugs. Learn More » Straight from Change.org's website. Click on image to read this important article (and sign the petition) about Cadbury, a company that has been dedicated to buying slave free cocoa beans for its chocolate production, facing a buy out by Kraft which does NOT have an ethically conscious track record for buying slave free products.   Pakistan Women Shouting for Rights I ran across this on the Internet today and thought it looked interesting enough to post here. I'm always looking for opportunities to work in the field of human rights. This organization is dedicated to securing women's rights. To see what jobs are offered click on the image. Straight from their website: Welcome to AWID! The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is an international, multi-generational, feminist, creative, future-orientated membership organization committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights. READ MORE.. Photo credit: Came from a website called dismalworld.org. (Personally, I think they could come up with a more positive name for disseminating important information.) I don't know anything about them except for reading an interesting article on their site. Worth a read.. | Author BLOG FOR CHANGE ArchivesMarch 2010 |
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