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Apple Faces Outcry over Labor Practices at Chinese Factories
Protesters visited a half-dozen Apple stores around the world to deliver petitions calling for reforms in the working conditions at [...]
After ivory, a legal rhino horn trade will only cause harm
Environmental Investigation Agency executive director Mary Rice reflects on the utter failure of a legalised ivory trade to protect elephants from poaching - and argues that current proposals for a legalised trade in rhino horn would prove to be just as disastrous.
from EIA on Feb 10, 2012.
'Who are these people now?'
Tibetan herders are struggling to adjust to sedentary life on the edge of the city of Golmud. Xia Liwei visited one family and listened to their story.
from China Dialaogue on Feb 10, 2012.
The 'internal logic' of climate negotiations
A lecture on climate change by Belgium-based academic Henry Tulkens at Imperial College London this week was full of [...]
from Daniel Nelson on Jan 26, 2012.
Damned if you, damned if you don't
Some people can never win.
Migrants, for example. In the past a frequently-heard cause of (male) resentment was that [...]
from Daniel Nelson on Jan 23, 2012.
