May 13, 2008
Tuesday

Human Rights

Human Rights is an ideology, belief, and movement that supports the notion that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and thus have inalienable rights including the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.
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Salvation Army Relief Efforts Ongoing Locally In Myanmar (press release)

Organization:
The Salvation Army

Donations Accepted Online at www.salvationarmyusa.org or 1-800-SAL-ARMY

SIEPR Policy Forum: Reducing Global Poverty (press release)

Organization:
Stanford Institute For Economic Policy Research

Striking a Proper Match? (research)

A growing number of nations including Canada, Chile, the EU, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland and the U.S., now include labor rights provisions in their free trade agreements. But we don’t yet know if such links actually empower workers or lead to improved labor rights governance.
Organization:
Labor Global Governance (LGG)

The Food Crisis and Private Industry (blog)

One of our clients, just back from Haiti, reported people rioting for food and eating dirt to fill their stomachs. The ever-worsening world food crisis is a terrible humanitarian tragedy, but it is finally one issue that cannot be blamed on global corporations – or is it? Where are the boundaries of corporate social responsibility today?

Interview with a Columbian flower worker (video)

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This interview was done in Colombia by the US Labor Education in the Americas Project. Stella is a flower worker at a Dole plantation just outside of Bogota.
Organization:
International Labor Rights Forum

Group Celebrates Mother’s Day at Home by Supporting Working Moms Abroad (activism)

The International Labor Rights Forum is hosting the Mother’s Day Roses Raffle to offer people throughout the United States a chance to send a special gift to a loved one while also advancing the rights of women in the Latin American rose industry.

There are 40,000 flower workers in Ecuador and over 100,000 in Colombia, working to grow, harvest, and package the roses and carnations sold in the United States. More than half of them are women who commonly face labor rights violations including sexual harassment, pesticide-related illnesses, and forced pregnancy testing. Proceeds from the raffle will support the legal, health and safety, and advocacy work done through ILRF's Fairness in Flowers Campaign.

For more information, please click here.
The International Labor Rights Forum is hosting the Mother’s Day Roses Raffle to offer people throughout the United States a chance to send a special gift to a loved one while also advancing the rights of women in the Latin American rose industry.
Organization:
International Labor Rights Forum

Abusive Child Labor Ring Exposed in China (news brief)

Organization:
New York Times
China said that it had broken up a child labor ring that forced children from poor, inland areas to work in booming coastal cities, acknowledging that severe labor abuses extended into the heart of its export economy.

Immigrant Organizations March Across The City On May Day (news brief)

Organization:
NY1 News
Rallies and marches are scheduled to take place across the city today in honor of May Day, the annual event which pays tribute to labor unions and immigrant workers.

International Cocoa Verification Board Selects Verifiers of Certification of Labor Conditions in West African Cocoa Production (press release)

Organization:
Verite

NGO, Industry, and Government Representatives Gather for Robust Dialogue on Cocoa Verification

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