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...response to such stories, the outside world has begun to stir. Senior British diplomat Bill Rammell raised issues of human rights in a visit to Pyongyang in September, during which, he later said, the North Koreans admitted to the existence of reeducation-through-labor camps. The U.N. this summer named a special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea. In the case of North Korea, the world remains a long way from getting an answer to Evgenia Ginzburg's pointed question. But it has started asking...
...world's largest coal producer, increasing output each year to feed its rapidly growing economy. But the cost in human lives is anything but low. Thousands of miners die in China's coal mines every year. The government put the number at 6,434 last year, but labor- and human-rights groups say the true count could be as high as 20,000. On average there is an accident that kills three or more people every week, while there is an accident that kills at least 10 people every three weeks, according to State Administration of Work Safety statistics...
With only a week’s rest since their last public protest, labor activists took up their usual position in front of the Holyoke Center yesterday afternoon for a small, rainy rally in support of a former Harvard employee charged with stealing a drill from the biological animal laboratory in which he worked...
...revolt by vested interests, although it appears politicians have been persuaded to abandon a useful forestry reform bill. Batley has not yet run into the sort of stalemate that would force ramsi to attach more stringent conditions to its program - or require heavy prodding from Canberra. While ramsi officials labor the point that the intervention is a regional response, there's little doubt in anyone's mind that this is Australia's show. Invited in or not, Canberra could not have a failed state on its doorstep: humanitarian concerns aside, lawlessness and anarchy are the perfect conditions for terrorists, drug...
Linnea M. Walsh, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Departments of Labor and Workforce Development, said that higher education is important to the state’s economy and is one of several sectors that benefit Cambridge economically...