War On Want : Corporate accountability : Fashion Victims:
Workers in Bangladesh are regularly working 80 hours a week for just 5p an hour, in potential death trap factories, to produce cheap clothes for British consumers of Primark, Tesco and Asda’s ‘George’ range. The charity War on Want today issued these findings in a new report, Fashion Victims, based on research among employees at six Bangladeshi factories in the capital Dhaka which employ over 5,000 workers, mainly women, making clothes for the three bargain retailers. Meera Syal, star of the television series The Kumars at No 42, is supporting moves for regulation to bring these companies to account.

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join the war on want!

Human Rights Day (10 December 2006):
Human Rights Day (10 December 2006)

10 December 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, which has become a universal standard for
defending and promoting human rights. Every year on 10 December, Human
Rights Day marks the adoption of the Universal Declaration. On Human
Rights Day it is celebrated around the globe that “All human beings
are born with equal and inalienable rights and fundamental freedoms”.

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keep in mind that i am against the whole ‘negative freedoms’ construction of rights, and the whole ‘natural rights’ construction of rights. i think that rights are conventions, generated by people’s fundamental respect for each other’s equality of autonomy in as much as we desire autonomy and equality ourselves. rights are in short the institutionalization of desires, the institution of the will to protect others, which is the construction that i prefer.

African Foldaway House:
Rajan Harinarain, a South African entrepreneur and inventor has come up with a temporary foldaway house for use in emergency situations complete with electrical wiring and fittings, doors and windows that can be erected by a small team in 5 minutes.

The patented structure weighs less than a ton, collapses to under a foot in height and can be modified with insulation/ventilation for hotter or cooler environments.
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seems much more practical to give housing than to give computers….