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...based charity Oxfam last week accused Seattle-based coffee giant Starbucks of blocking Ethiopian efforts to trademark three types of coffee beans in the U.S. Starbucks denies this, but the controversy continues to percolate. What does Ethiopia want? The Ethiopian government applied to trademark its most famous coffee-bean names - Harar, Sidamo and Yirgacheffe - in the U.S. last year. The Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office estimates that controlling the names of the beans could earn Ethiopia an extra $88 million a year. How so? Owning the names, Ethiopia reasons, will enable it to build premium brands (with premium prices) by better...
...continue in Niger and its neighbors in the Horn of Africa and in parts of Southern Africa. Earlier this month James Morris, the head of the United Nations World Food Program (wfp), warned that more funding for food aid was needed in Sudan or peace II there could unravel. Oxfam complained in May that less than one-seventh of the funds the United Nations and aid groups need for Congo had been given. As the G-8 leaders prepare to gather again, skeptics are asking if their resolutions really matter on the ground. No deal, however substantial, could reasonably have...
...number just 17,500, a tiny presence in such a large country. In February the U.N. and aid groups working in Congo asked for $682 million in humanitarian funds. So far, they have received just $94 million--or $9.40 for every person in need. By comparison, the aid group Oxfam estimates that the U.N.'s tsunami appeal last year raised $550 for each person...
...industry. The policy will contain our commitment to foster an open and inclusive environment based on recognized workplace human rights. We have received comments on the draft policy by external human rights organizations such as the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, Human Rights Watch, International Labor Rights Fund, and Oxfam. We have also met with numerous other organizations including the International Union of Food Workers (IUF), the United Food and Commercial Workers, and Amnesty International...
...focus in human rights has shifted from drafting international conventions at the United Nations to protecting economic and social rights in developing countries. “The action is in the [non-governmental organization] community, it’s in the [World Trade Organization], it’s in Oxfam leading four West African countries to challenge U.S. cotton subsidies,” Ignatieff said. “The future of human rights is in economic and social rights and in the debate between the north and south, the developing and the developed world, over the responsibilities of rich countries...