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Burned Clothes With Wal-Mart Labels At Site of Deadly Bangladeshi Factory Fire - A shameful record for the U.S. apparel industry

Burned Clothes With Wal-Mart Labels At Site of Deadly Bangladeshi Factory Fire - A shameful record for the U.S. apparel industry | Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, Sustainability, SocioEconomic, Community | Scoop.it
From www.democracynow.org - November 28, 2012 2:32 AM

November 27, 2012 - Democracy Now TV Investigation

The Bangladeshi government has declared a period of national mourning for more than 120 garment workers who died in a fire at a factory that supplied U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart, among others.

The Bangladeshi government has declared a period of national mourning for more than 120 garment workers who died in a fire at a factory that supplied U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart, among others. Joining us from Bangladesh is labor activist Kalpona Akter, who has visited the factory and took pictures of the charred clothing labels she found there — including the Wal-Mart brand, Faded Glory and Gap. She started work in garment factories when she was 12 years old.... We are also joined by Scott Nova, executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium, which investigates working conditions in factories around the world. http://www.democracynow.org/2012/11/27/bangladeshi_labor_activist_finds_burned_clothes

 

November 27, 2012 - Harvard Business Review

Garment-Factory Fire Reveals Capitalism at Its Rawest - Nathan T. Washburn http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/11/garment-factory_fire_reveals_c.html?referral=00563&cm_mmc=email-_-newsletter-_-daily_alert-_-alert_date&utm_source=newsletter_daily_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert_date

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Commodifying and Privatising Nature: RIO+20 and the greenwashing of the global economy

Commodifying and Privatising Nature: RIO+20 and the greenwashing of the global economy | Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, Sustainability, SocioEconomic, Community | Scoop.it
From www.tni.org - January 14, 2012 1:38 AM

The focus on technologies is problematic because of the types of controversial new technologies that are promoted, including biomass incineration, synthetic biology, nanotechnology, etc. Nuclear and GMOs are not explicitly endorsed, but would fit with the approach.

The market-based approach has been heavily criticised by NGOs as it would mean assigning private property rights to nature, commodifying and privatising nature. Leaving nature to the market would undermine the opportunities of communities and states to protect the commons. Also the bitter lessons from the carbon trading debacle seem to be entirely ignored when UNEP proposes tradeable biodiversity credits. The UNEP reports exposes a misguided belief in markets, which is astonishing after the financial crisis. It is as if that example of the chronic failure of deregulation and market-based approaches had never happened.

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