While the nation only cares about the presidential election, the routine daily horrors of the world continue without abatement and it's high time we remember that these things are happening and demand we do something about it. First, George Clooney is the "brand ambassador" for...
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Clearly, supply chains with no accountability for the parent companies who create a system where they get cheap exploitable labor with no legal consequences is a great thing.... Women working.
While we are justifiably focused on the election, American corporations are still exploiting overseas workers and we aren't paying any attention to that. Unlike those who claim that American apparel.
I'm a little torn on this: In an attempt to keep a dialogue going surrounding the sweatshop conditions in which so many mass-produced articles of clothing are made, Norwegian publication Aftenposten has released a harrowing web documentary series that sends three fashion bloggers into the...
Simon Marks has a long expose demonstrating that Cambodian anti-sex trafficking activist Somaly Mam lied about her own life story and trained children to make up stories about their supposed.
The Cambodian government has pretty much completed its violent crackdown against the apparel industry workers protesting the terrible conditions of their lives as they toil away in unsafe factories for.
One of the laziest and morally bankrupt arguments people make about apparel workers and the working conditions is that they have governments and those governments need to step in if they want to improve wages. It's up to Bangladesh to decide factory conditions in Bangladesh;...
Rithy Pahn's documentary about the millions of forgotten people killed in Khmer Rouge death camps with scenes largely constructed with clay figurines looks amazing. In related news, the 20th century.
I endorse all of Robert Kuttner's essay on the need for enforceable standards in the garment industry as the only way disasters like the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh can.
The decline of wildlife along the Mekong River, and really in all of Southeast Asia, has reached crisis levels. Between widespread development and the Chinese desire to kill every mammal in existence, there isn't much left. On the Mekong, home of many now rare and...
This is a story that won't get lasting attention because of the small number of dead workers, but following the death of 1127 garment workers in Bangladesh, we have another.
Pol Pot re-evaluation and Counterpunch fundraiser: Two great tastes that go great together!