Unilever respects employees� rights to join, form, or not join, a trade union without fear of reprisal, intimidation or harassment. "A Summary of Stakeholder Concerns and Our Response" at www.unilever.com At Unilever Pakistan, it is more than just the Company...
When people travel from their home land they become ambassadors to the nation they belong to. However it would seem that countries that have citizens worried about sex predators. Within a neighborhood or play...
By, Uwe Paschen. Desperate Farmers. For decades now Farm communities around the globe have been bleeding by several factors. Politics comes to mind as well as Industry and mismanagement by the WTO, the...
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Over the many years that I have resided in the third world, my thoughts have been related to how I can help eradicate the poverty that surrounds me. My answer to that problem is that by retiring here my meager...
Unsurprisingly, an UN report finds little progress towards millenium development goals. Very little improvement has been achieved to erradicate poverty by 2015. Trade and aid are still major barriers. "The report...
"Madonna and her husband will adopt another child, a 3-year-old Malawian girl named Mercy James, whom Madonna met one year ago at an orphanage in Malawi, according to a report.As a gift for Madonna's 50th birthday...
I live amongst the poverty of a third world nation, I see the suffering and hunger where as here in the Philippines, the very poor can place food on their tables, but it’s a hard slog for parents with 7...
A Babel Fish OpinionPoverty is talked about in the news media, forums and social communities, its causes are many fold, drought, war, over population, a lack of education, corruption and unemployment being the...
A new report by the international consultancy McKinsey reveals ecological strategies from companies around the globe are beginning to be integrated with prioritized strategies.
The study, published in the McKinsey Quarterly, points out that the majority of businesses...
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One of Bangladesh's two “battling begums” went on trial for extortion recently, as part of the emergency Government's plan to break their-stranglehold on politics.
"Sheikh Hasina Wajed, a former Prime Minister, has been in detention since July, accused with her sister and...
BOSTON - The nonprofit that aims to seed the developing world with inexpensive laptop computers for schoolchildren has made peace with Intel Corp., the project's biggest and most powerful rival, The Associated Press has learned. The One Laptop Per Child program and Intel...
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Bob Geldof visited Ghana for the TV series Geldof in Africa and wrote about it in the accompanying book, describing his crowning as the Chief of Development in a town called Ajumako-Bisease. This documentary...
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"Do you want to participate in an online effort to create free science textbooks for countries that can't afford them? The Physics Department of the University of Cape Town, South Africa is currently supporting this effort and is looking for authors who can dedicate some of...
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"In 2000, it cost $10,000 per year for antiretroviral (ARV) treatment of HIV patients in the third world -- today, that cost is 70 bucks for the same period. If the pharmaceutical giant Novartis has its way, that...
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