Transnationals have set up factories, called maquiladoras, away from the U.S. and other developed world regulators, where child labour, excessive hours, forced overtime, verbal and physical abuse, unsafe working conditions and discrimination are the rule. Save the Children, UNICEF, Free the Children and many other organizations have established programs not only to curb child labour, but also to support children through education, training and community social programs once they are out of the workforce.
It's not only the right thing to do but ... also we really rely on the quality and taste profile of Ghanaian cocoa and that is something that is really important to our brand," Alex Cole, corporate affairs director at Cadbury, said from her office in London. "Some of what the companies are doing is good -- making the crops more sustainable and all -- but we feel there should be more power put in the hands of the farmers," said [David Morley]. "The wonderful free hand of the market is not working here.
There are eight chapters in the book, organised in four sections. Chapter 1 "Creators of Culture" provides an overview of the basic tenet of the book - that climate demands and monetary resources influence each other's impact on culture. Dr. Van de Vliert further asserts that "climate and cash" interact to form integrated climatoeconomic niches. Chapter 2 "Climate Colors Life Satisfaction" summarises empirical support for the contention that a more demanding climate, leading to fewer resources, decreases culturally embedded satisfaction. The author illustrates that problems of unhappiness and suicide exist in regions with extremely cold winters, extremely hot summers, or both. In Chapter 3 "Cash Compensates for Climate," he explains how money resources make the difference between climat...
...Using the criteria of child labour and working for money, the joint effect of ...
The foundation can also point to its many positive social development impacts on Third World communities where fair trade has resulted in reducing poverty, generating revenue for dignified livelihoods, and enhancing health care and education. The mining of precious metals outside the fair trade system has made miners the victims of environmental degradation, poisoned water sources, lost ancestral and agricultural land, contending government and rebel armies, child labour and more.
People are caring more and more," says Beverly Hiebert, national sales manager for Ten Thousand Villages stores in Canada. "There's a growing awareness among Canadians, I think, in caring about how they spend their money. "I think it's something quite hard to determine," says [Kim Fedor]. "We want to be guilt-free in our buying, but as consumers we have to ask deeper questions." "Child labour is a really complex issue. I think it's really important to recognize that," says [Debbie McDowell]. "IKEA can't solve (the problem) on its own. As a company, we can't just go in there and ensure that child labour doesn't exist in any of the factories or facilities that we operate."
Upholstery Arts was the featured manufacturer when Ottawa and Toronto retailer DeBoer's Furniture (www.deboers.com) launched its everGreen line last year. Now the stores have added Montreal's G. Romano Inc. and Toronto's Perri Fine Furniture to its eco-supplier list. DeBoer's also carries products from Toronto's Urban Tree Salvage, an outfit that turns some of the countless apple, oak and other trees that are cut down in that city each year into items like dining room tables and desks. You need green to go green. An eco-friendly sofa at DeBoer's will run you a hefty $2,700. Thanks to growing demand and consequent economies of scale, that's down from $5,000 a couple of years ago but still out of many folks' league. As an alternative, de Boer suggests less expensive "hybrid" products wher...
... low, but lax environmental safeguards and child labour laws in the country of origin may exact oth...
In a promotional video posted by TLC hyping the special one-hour edition, [Kate Gosselin] says, "Recently, we've made some life-changing decisions... ones that we hope will bring each of us some peace. Adding to the strain, Pennsylvania's Labor Department has opened an investigation into whether the show's production is complying with state child labour laws. TLC has said it "fully complies" with state laws and regulations.
If "people's livelihoods are at stake" were an adequate moral justification, we'd have to defend everything from African cocoa plantations fuelled by child labour to Asian sex tourism -- and wax nostalgic for the American slave trade. Yet "livelihood" is the battle cry when Canadian politicians and Free Press editorial writers defend the right of off-season fishermen to bludgeon and shoot to death hundreds of thousands of baby seals every spring. Yes, they are baby seals. It's the debunkers who are pulling the seal skin over the public's eyes. When a two week-old seal's white coat begins to molt, it's open season on the defenceless infant. That's the law. The rest of the world sees this shameful "hunt" for what it is, just as we clearly see and rightly condemn the obvious (but just as j...
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