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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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UN: Privatizing food and agricultural aid is dangerous. Obama's Africa Plan Is Wrong

From humanosphere.kplu.org - December 11, 2012 10:34 PM
December 11, 2012 Humanosphere
The UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter, examines the Obama Administration’s New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, a project aimed at boosting food production in the developing world. De Schutter notes that one example of the new initiative’s approach is to have Cargill launch a large-scale project on 40,000 acres of farmland in Mozambique — which may increase crop yields but also potentially displace many poor smallholder farmers.

“The very factors that make Africa a target for agricultural development aid also make it a promising land market for multinational investors. But opportunities should not be mistaken for solutions. Problems can arise when private companies take a central role in aid programmes.”


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Opportunities should not be mistaken for solutions.  "Investment" implies a financial return and often control.  "Philanthropy" and "Aid" should not be attached to profits but rather to empower and uplift populations into self independence in line with their regional ecosystems, cultural food and needs without coercion or hidden agendas by those acting as a trojan horse for big foreign business and corporate interests e.g. The Gates Foundation
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Future of Aid - Where's The Money? A Full Expose by AlertNet

Future of Aid - Where's The Money? A Full Expose by AlertNet | Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, Sustainability, SocioEconomic, Community | Scoop.it
From www.trust.org - January 28, 2012 6:56 PM

Where is the money? AlertNet explores the future of humanitarian aid: including stories, interviews, videos, info-graphics and commentary

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