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...staff. "We want the government to stop large corporations from entering the retail segment until it puts in place a national policy that is agreeable to all the stakeholders including small traders, shopkeepers, wholesalers and vendors," says Dharmendra Kumar of India FDI Watch, a coalition of labor unions and trade associations that has been at the forefront of the recent agitation. "Retail is the second-largest employer in the country; the livelihoods of 40 million people are likely to be affected if big players are allowed in at such an alarming pace." Mohun Guruswamy, from the Delhi-based Centre...
...addition to paying to staff the Brazil Studies Program’s office in São Paulo and to provide opportunities for international study and work, the new endowment will fund professors who gear research on topics such as labor inequities and HIV/AIDS toward Brazil...
...first to highlight Harvard’s democratic deficit. Last spring, protestors in Harvard Yard representing the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) pointed towards Massachusetts Hall, which houses the University President’s office, and cried out, “This is what autocracy looks like,” and then, pointing towards themselves added, “this is what democracy looks like...
...Human rights came in for the toughest criticism. Despite a 2005 pledge to "provide relief" for its political prisoners, Beijing continued to detain and imprison democracy activists as well as those attempting to organize workers in labor unions not approved by the government. Police routinely detain people for days without formal charge or more justification than to avoid protests or "social unrest," it said...
...each individual to decide and do what was right, more challenging than simply obeying rules. In the summer of 1956, Hall, together with a group of faculty and a student, dismantled a chapel in Grafton, N.H., board by board and rebuilt it board by board (including the labor and encouragement of all the classes) on the Concord Academy campus. With Hall as Head, Concord students learned that women could run tractors, paint clapboards, participate in town meetings, pursue dreams. The possibilities of action were unlimited. It was this spirit that attracted Drew to Concord Academy...