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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...
MARISA LAGO Citigroup Watchdog...
...from this post, U.N. diplomats can influence the temporary U.S. administrators and the new Iraqi government without exercising coercive control. If our European detractors are worried only because of their fear that the United States will not secure human rights and democracy in Iraq, then such a U.N. watchdog role should let them sleep well. And just as Bosnia and Kosovo are now home to U.N. administrators, there will someday be a place in Iraq for the U.N. (if the soon-to-debut government of Iraq approves it) when the political climate grows less shrill...
...Blix took the UNMOVIC position after having served for 17 years as the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (the UN atomic watchdog). He was summoned out of retirement by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan after Security Council members failed to agree on the nomination of fellow Swede Rolf Ekeus to head UNMOVIC. Blix's appointment was unanimously approved by the Security Council, and he led the inspectors back into Iraq last November following the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1441. Last Tuesday, Annan ordered the evacuation of all UN personnel from Iraq, a day before...
...that most of the testing seems to be done under the aegis of huge biotech firms, either in-house or through funding at large universities with flagrant disregard for any conflict-of-interest considerations. This fact seems to have slipped under the radar of most U.S. commentators and watchdog groups...