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Congratulations to the people of China [June 2]. Their response to the recent earthquake has shown them at their compassionate and open best. China is indeed coming of age, and it's not about the Olympic Games. It's about valuing individual human lives. The contrast with Burma's reaction to its recent cyclone is staggering. This is no reflection on the Burmese people, but a disgraceful reproach to the rulers who cling to power at whatever price, even the sacrifice of their own citizens. Jenny Evans, BUNDABERG, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA...
...Crucial to achieving that kind of reputation is the Norwegian fund's commitment to ethical investing. Keeping to guidelines it set down in 2004, the fund pledges to press firms it invests in to improve the protection of human rights - particularly those of child workers - and to be environmentally conscious. That social and ecological responsibility, the fund insists, is key to safeguarding its own financial returns. Take children's rights. If children are denied schooling and forced to earn a living prematurely, they grow up to be less productive workers with fewer skills. While a current employer may benefit from...
...Beijing-based environmental groups, the loss of the wild Nu is unacceptable. Sheltered by the Gaoligang and Biluo mountain ranges, the Nu valley has fostered diverse human and animal life. More than a third of China?s 56 recognized minority groups live in the area. Many, like the farmer Yu Guifu, are Lisu, a Tibetan-Burmese group with a high percentage of Christians owing to the early 20th century work of British missionary James Fraser. In Nu prefecture the Han people, who are a vast majority nationwide, make up less than 10% of the population...
...impounded car-and its license plate-have been sitting on an army base. The plate seemed to point to the military's involvement in Burgos's abduction. "This is vital information that connects the military to the case," says Purificacion C. Valera Quisumbing, chair of the Philippines Commission on Human Rights at the time of the abduction. "We're not saying they were the ones who did the abduction. We're just saying that this is a vital connection...
...into the base and stolen it. In July, a senior government prosecutor announced that he wanted to interview six military officers in connection with Burgos' abduction. He was immediately removed from the case. Senior military officers have offered their own explanation for the abduction. In a letter to the human-rights commission, General Hermogenes Esperon, head of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) at the time of the abduction, suggested that Jonas Burgos was, in fact, a high-ranking insurgent who went by the nom de guerre Ka Ramon. In August 2007, four months after Burgos disappeared, police produced...