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14th May 2014
Activist investors push objectives at ConocoPhillips meeting
HOUSTON – Surrounded by well-heeled investors in a packed Omni Hotel conference room on Tuesday, Jimmy Dunne took his turn at the microphone and held up a folded newspaper article from The New York Times.He said it was about how shareholders get one...
10th May 2014
US groups urge sanctions on Thailand
WASHINGTON - Thailand should be liable to potential US sanctions for failing to crack down on trafficking in migrant workers, a group of human rights and labour organisations said on Friday. In a letter to US Secretary of State John Kerry, 19...
7th May 2014
U.S. Religious Progressivism “Way of the Future”
WASHINGTON, May 2 2014 (IPS) - The future of religion in U.S. politics lies not with conservatives but rather with religious progressives, social scientists here are suggesting, with a faith-based movement potentially able to provide momentum to a...
25th Apr 2014
Post-Rana Plaza, Global Investors Pushing for Systemic Change
By Carey L. Biron Hasina, one of the 2,438 Rana Plaza workers that came out alive, by the remains of the factory on Sep. 25, 2013. Credit: Robert Stefanicki/IPS
24th Apr 2014
A Year Later, Rana Plaza Survivors Struggle
Recovery Is Slow as Victims Deal With Injuries, Await Adequate Compensation
16th Apr 2014