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...created in response to public concern with sweatshop conditions and schools’ increasing complicity in them. The WRC monitors factories that produce clothing licensed by (bearing the logos of) its 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...
...public report until June of this year—and when it did so, it refused to release the names or locations of factories, shielding offending factories from any public scrutiny and rendering the reports themselves impossible to verify. Further, the FLA has no provision in its code of conduct against sexual harassment or sex discrimination, and has never taken action without the WRC investigating and acting first. It doesn’t take a Harvard student (or president) to note that this is not a track record that inspires confidence...
Rosenthal said that UHS does not conduct such tests on site but that results can be back from an outside lab within hours—even late at night if they “felt it was urgent...
Iraq kids are going back to school. Local councils are being elected, and local security forces are being trained. The power supply is improving, and buyers and sellers in Iraq's lively marketplaces can now conduct their transactions with banknotes free of the scowling visage of the tyrant Saddam. That was the picture Deputy Defense Secretary had hoped to show a skeptical American media corps during a PR tour of Iraq last weekend, before insurgents made a mockery of his efforts by slamming rockets into his hotel in the most heavily-guarded part of Baghdad. But that attack...
...recent weeks, it has vowed to "demonstrate" its nuclear capability, a statement that has been interpreted as a threat to conduct a test-detonation of a nuclear weapon. Plainly, the stalemate would not stop North Korea going nuclear, and there was no support among regional allies for military confrontation. Instead, China, South Korea and Russia have urged the U.S. to show greater flexibility on the question of security guarantees, to allow for the brokering of a classic diplomatic deal that would allow all sides to step back from the path of confrontation while proclaiming their core demands have been...