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社交媒体运动能使童工消失吗？

February 10, 2012
干预行为——通过各种军事行动、援助补贴以及贸易促进措施——成了冷战过后国际政治的一大特色。如今，公司干预也跃然榜上，成为减除贫困以及在贫困国家大兴发展与教育的手段之一。社交媒体的兴起，加之人们对全球供应链体系的关注，使得种种不公平的劳工待遇一一得到曝光，尤其是农业和矿业的童工现象。许多消费者不愿意购买经工人忍受巨大痛苦后生产出来的巧克力、T恤或是智能手机。行业团体，还有如苹果（Apple）、雀巢（Nestlé）这样的跨国企业正不断加强其对自身冗繁生产链的管控，防止生产过程中出现非人性的做法，避免惹上相关的调查或是社交媒体运动，引发利润的暴跌。历史在不断轮回，正义在世界蔓延，正如一个多世纪前，...

US Wants Changes in UN Agreement

August 25, 2005
Just weeks before an upcoming UN summit, the United States has proposed more than 750 amendments to an agreement to be signed at the meeting. Organized as an effort to better address world poverty, terrorism, and human rights abuses, the summit is slated to host leaders of 175 nations. The Bush...

US to Join Iran, Syria in Iraq Talks

February 28, 2007
The US will join a meeting of neighboring nations to Iraq, including Iran and Syria, to discuss ways to stem violence. The Iraq government initiated the meetings for March and also invited other world powers, including permanent members of the UN Security Council, to a second meeting in April. In...

North Korea’s Succession Poses New Challenges – Part I

Byong-Chul Lee
November 4, 2010

Burma Delivers its First Rebuff to China

Bertil Lintner
April 18, 2012

Promise of US Jobs Lures Migrants Who Vowed to Stay in Mexico

February 25, 2008
Immigrants who resent harsh treatment in the US, particularly those who lack documentation, often return to Mexico. But the Mexican economy offers little in the way of jobs, wages or benefits available in the US. Individuals long to work and hometowns rely on remittances sent from the north. The...

Workers’ Paradise?

January 17, 2008
The expansion of global trade eroded the status of national and local unions. Yet as many workers in the world’s wealthiest nations worry about the status of their jobs, politicians who want to win and stay in office increasingly respond to the anxiety by pandering to unions. “After decades of...

Why Africa Must Make Health Spending a Priority

April 4, 2008
Health analysts agree that hiring of African nurses and doctors by hospitals in developing nations is a problem that invites the risk of new diseases emerging and spreading quickly around the globe. The 10 countries with the highest tuberculosis and HIV rates are in Africa. Health care workers are...
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