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...member schools. If factory conditions are in violation of those schools’ codes of conduct for apparel production, the WRC releases information about the violation publicly and seeks to mediate the dispute with the factory management and the licensed brand. The WRC has investigated every worker complaint it has received (it receives complaints from its own worldwide network of local organizations). It is the only independent sweatshop monitor, making it an effective advocate for workers whose rights have been violated...
...mining saved Peru's macroeconomy, many Peruvians say they have seen too few benefits under their own roofs. It is a complaint heard from Nigeria to Papua New Guinea: national governments make deals, and the locals get shortchanged. As a result, local protests are stalling at least 10 mining-investment projects in Peru that are worth $1.4 billion. In the northern town of Cajamarca, whose decade-old Yanacocha gold mine is the world's second largest, residents are loudly demonstrating against expansion plans by the mine's U.S. co-owner, Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. (2002 revenues: $2.75 billion). Yanacocha...
Mendelsohn said that other universities complained that Harvard was “playing games” and pushing secret agendas with its blind rankings. He said the new letters would address this complaint by directly stating if Harvard departments already have a favorite choice...
...said she personally favors the activism of the late 1980s, citing the discrimination complaint filed by Lisa J. Schkolnick ’88 against the Fly Club and the formation of Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT), an organization that pressured the final clubs to let women join...
...Board’s lack of students has always been deeply troubling to me, as I have heard countless horror stories about experiences with the Board,” Chopra said, enumerating the complaints of one student who said that the professor who brought a complaint against him was a member of the Ad Board...