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...migrant worker from Shaanxi, were sentenced by a Dongguan court to serve up to three-and-a-half years in prison for destroying factory property. But Stella's managers (who say they were trying to address workers' complaints when the strike erupted), aided by foreign shoe companies and overseas NGOs, petitioned judges and Chinese officials on the workers' behalf, and in some cases even hired lawyers to appeal for lesser sentences. The court upheld the convictions, but rescinded the original prison terms, saying simply they had been "heavy sentences." All 10 workers walked free on New Year's Eve. "There...
...Catherine Walker is ramsi's development coordinator. It's her job to oversee repair of the "machinery of government," get the economy going, make sure the courts and prisons are functioning, and liaise with ngos and aid donors. "The scale of the work to be done is enormous, and it keeps growing - which is simply a function of learning more about the way things are done and what isn't being done," she says. For instance, an expert study into the workings of provincial governments has uncovered a system in crisis: poor financial management, a lack of administrative skills...
...Munir had been an activist since his law school days, concentrating on labor rights, a sensitive field during the rule of President Suharto. After Suharto's ouster in 1998, two NGOs?an Islamic student organization and the Association of Independent Journalists?set up Kontras, which stands for the Commission for Disappearances and Victims of Violence, and which examines alleged human-rights abuses during the Suharto era. Three years later, he co-founded Imparsial, a human-rights monitoring group. His highest profile campaign of late was lobbying against a bill for an expanded intelligence agency. Munir's fellow activists wonder...
...Where did the book come from? It didn't say. But the website said that First8 was the "initiative of an independent Dutch foundation ... without any political affiliation." A trail through Dutch nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) eventually led to Sander Veenman, a Dutch photographer, 42, who took the photographs. Veenman says that he wanted to keep the book anonymous so that people would talk about the issues it raises and the images within it, rather than about who was behind it. "There are a lot of people trying to figure out which organization this is, and they are really pissed...
...publish my pictures, like always, but it wouldn't change anything." So he conceived of the little book to carry his images of suffering to a wider audience. Together with four others who wish to remain anonymous, Veenman compiled a list of international high-flyers. A coalition of Dutch NGOs and private companies chipped in materials, funds and services worth $500,000 to print and distribute the book...