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Video: “Bangladeshi Workers Pay Price for West’s Cheap Clothes” Bangladesh has been a country of wiggle room for Western retailers looking to cut costs, however, the April 24 collapse of eight story Rana Plaza has turned Bangladesh into [...]
Bill would limit whistleblower activities on PA farms by Natasha Khan for Public Source Chickens crammed into wire cages next to the rotting carcasses of other chickens. The floor of a barn coated with flies. Hens with their [...]
Accidental Foreigners: America’s Forgotten Citizens by Cindy Carcamo for Equal Voice News. For more stories and current news, please visit Equal Voice News. SAN JOSE CALDERAS, Guatemala — Jeidy knows she’s different. The 5-year-old with dark eyes and an impish smile toys [...]
The True Cost of Food: Immigration and Agriculture Workers by Brad Wong for Equal Voice News. For more stories and current news, please visit Equal Voice News. BELLINGHAM, Wash. – When Modesto Hernandez, 35, walks these days, he [...]
Study spotlights high breast cancer risk for plastics workers By Jim Morris for The Center for Public Integrity WINDSOR, Ontario — For more than three decades, workers, most of them women, have complained of dreadful conditions in many [...]
Female cab drivers break into India’s hostile male profession by Aparna Alluri · August 21, 2012 for the Seattle Globalist NEW DELHI––On a sticky afternoon in New Delhi, India, Chandni Gautam inches her cab into a narrow street where she [...]
This Land Is Their Land Bearing witness to the fallout from the exploitation of Latin America’s natural resources By Gustavo Jononovich for Nieman Reports Latin America’s abundant natural resources are a blessing and a curse. Too often, foreign [...]
Farmworkers plagued by pesticides, red tape by Ronnie Greene for iWatch News NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Laboring in the blackberry fields of central Arkansas, the 18-year-old Mexican immigrant suddenly turned ill. Her nose began to bleed, her skin developed [...]
At U.S. border, expensive drones generate lots of buzz, few results by Andrew Becker & G.W. Schulz for CIR TUCSON, Ariz. – An aerial drone, zooming somewhere out of sight high above the cooling scrubland, first spotted the [...]
Pentagon failed to protect whistleblowers Investigators routinely disregarded rules while rejecting complaints of reprisals for reporting waste, fraud and abuse by R. Jeffrey Smith & Aaron Mehta for iWatch News The Defense Department has inadequately protected from reprisals whistleblowers [...]