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...followed a continuum stretching back to the ancient kingdoms of Mesopotamia. He contends that the silver and gold bullion mined in Mexico and Peru and shipped across oceans in galleons by the conquering Spanish preceded the convertible currencies and credit cards that now keep the world's economy ticking. NGOs like Human Rights Watch, defending the rights of Latino or Chinese workers, are upholding, Chanda says, the humanistic tradition of priests like the 16th century's Bartolomé de las Casas, who wrote scathing treatises chronicling European abuses of the peoples of the New World...
...IRAQ 8 million Number of Iraqis, nearly a third of the population, who are without water, sanitation, food and shelter. NGOs say Iraq's humanitarian crisis has gotten worse since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 $37.4 billion U.S. federal funding for Iraqi reconstruction. As of May 2007, nearly all of it had been spent...
...million Number of Iraqis, nearly a third of the population, who are without water, sanitation, food and shelter. NGOs in Iraq say a humanitarian crisis there has gotten worse since the U.S.-led invasion...
...More recently, the law has been deployed by labor groups and NGOs trying to punish and modify the behavior of U.S. companies abroad. More than three dozen cases targeting companies have followed the first case, filed in 1993, against Texaco (now Chevron). That class-action suit, which alleged that a subsidiary of Texaco had improperly disposed of waste while extracting oil from the Ecuadorian Amazon, was eventually referred to Ecuadorian courts. The majority of other suits have been dismissed on jurisdictional grounds or are still pending, though at least one has been settled out of court...
...Monday, Oxfam and a coalition of Iraqi NGOs aired a new report saying that roughly 8 million Iraqis are in need of emergency aid. That means about one in three people in Iraq now is desperate for the basics of life. Four million Iraqis (about 15% of the population) regularly cannot buy enough to eat. And 28% of children are malnourished now, compared to 19% before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. As summer heat reaches its annual highs here, 70% of Iraqis go without adequate water supplies, a figure up 20% since 2003. By way of comparison...