Economics

Human Wrongs Watch By Fabiana Frayssinet* BELTERRA, Brazil, December 2015 (IPS) – In the northern Brazilian state of Pará, the construction of a port terminal for shipping soy out of the Amazon region has displaced thousands of small farmers from…

Dear readers, I am thrilled to share with you ILRF’s new 100-page report Our Voices, Our Safety: Bangladeshi Garment Workers Speak Out. For a quick glance at the core issues it addresses, check out my short piece on Huffington Post.…

Human Wrongs Watch By Roberto Savio* Rome, 17 December 2015 In the space of just a few days, two fundamental lessons have come from Paris for the world about democracy and climate. The media have been dealing with them as…

It was a political drama in South Africa last week when President Jacob Zuma announced out of the blue that Mr. David Van Rooyen is the new Minister of Finance, taking over from Minister Nhlanhla Nene. Such an shock and untimely…

South Africa- The struggle for a minimum wage in South Africa is not a new thing, it has been going on for sometime and still it comes out now and then, where workers fight against  slavery wages and want decent…

Should there be a business, which is beneficial for the society as a whole, but not necessarily a cash-thriving exercise for an individual or a corporation! Or is it possible to run a business entity that does not earn currencies,…

‘In effect, there is a clear link between the protection of nature and the building of a just and equitable social order.’ by Andrea Germanos, staff writer for Common Dreams Pope Francis warned on Wednesday that the world is facing…

Mention of the word diamond elicits images of wealth, an excess of it, besides the obvious beauty of the item itself thus the diamond trade could be dismissed as out of the normal reach of human rights activists in our…

Banks and corporations are being liberated from the rule of law, and are ripping the world apart. What have governments learnt from the financial crisis? I could write a column spelling it out. Or I could do the same job…

Nobel Prize-winning economist and Columbia University professor Joseph Stiglitz warns about the dangers of the TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. “We know we’re going to need regulations to restrict the emissions of carbon,” Stiglitz said. “But under these provisions, corporations can…