Word: salvador
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Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright noted in the latest issue of Foreign Policy magazine that “U.N. peacekeeping has maintained order in such diverse places as Namibia, El Salvador, Cambodia, eastern Slavonia, Mozambique, and Cyprus.” In contrast, the breakdown of security in Iraq and Afghanistan underscores the Bush administration’s inability to secure stability in post-conflict states and highlights the need for a change of course in Iraq...
...mask and makes fun of Homestar. They and their friends act out spoofs, skits, adventures, music videos and fake ads, and just generally goof on their own surreal weirdness. It's like a postmodern version of the Peanuts gang. Or it's like a Saturday-morning cartoon by Salvador Dali. Or--look, it's too hard to explain. Just check it out. --By Lev Grossman
...Primo factory in El Salvador, 5.000 workers, mostly young women, produce clothing for Harvard and other American colleges through Lands’ End. Conditions at Primo are, perhaps not entirely surprisingly, appalling. According to the Workers’ Rights Consortium (WRC), a not-for-profit independent sweatshop monitoring organization, workers at Primo face abuse from supervisors, forced and unpaid overtime and inadequate health treatment. Perhaps most egregiously, Primo systematically blacklists workers it suspects to be or have been involved with a union...
...When a factory is in violation of the code and the monitor investigates, schools and brands can sometimes pressure the factory to improve—a strategy that has been successful in the past. In this case, the conditions at Primo reached the WRC through local organizations in El Salvador; the WRC sent a team to collect evidence and conduct interviews, producing a report that is now publicly available...
According to a preliminary report released this spring by the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), a labor-based independent watchdog group, the Primo factory—operated in El Salvador by Lands’ End Inc.—“has systematically discriminated in its hiring process against workers perceived to be trade unionists.” This “blacklisting,” the WRC said, is illegal under both Salvadorean and international...