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Workers in China's Apple iPad and iPhone factories were forced to sign pledges that they would not attempt to kill themselves, an investigation has revealed An investigation of the 500,000 workers by the Centre for Research on Multinational Companies and Students and Scholars Against Corporate...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2010/oct/01/pineapple-trade-costa-rica I have seen first hand how much fair trade helps communities in Malawi. Whenever possible it is good to buy fair trade :sippingcoffee:

Punjab Cong MLA asks Sikh party workers to enroll as voters for SGPC poll Punjab Cong MLA asks Sikh party workers to enroll as voters for SGPC poll @ www.punjabnewsline.com KAPURTHALA Sukhpal Singh Khaira, MLA from Bholath assembly constituency called upon the Sikh Congress workers...

source: http://www.theprovince.com/business/India+recipient+dollars+from+overseas+workers/2761979/story.html India No. 1 recipient of dollars from overseas workers Key source of finance during crisis times Agence France-Presse - April 4, 2010 Remittances to India...

The SGPC would do well by emulating the example of the Halifax Sikhs, says Manohar Singh Gill, Union Minister of Youth Services and Sports. Responding to The Tribune news report about the Halifax gurdwara in Canada electing an all-women team to run its day-to-day management, Gill said the SGPC...

BBC News - Indian sect members vow to marry sex workers More than 1,000 followers of a multi-religious sect in northern India have pledged to marry female sex workers who want to escape exploitation. Young Hindu, Muslim and Sikh men have been queuing up at the Dera Sacha Sauda (Abode of the...

Islamabad, Nov 25 (ANI): Police detained hundreds of supporters of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ahead of his return from exile, his party has said. In a crackdown that began late Saturday, some 1,800 activists of the PML-N were detained in Punjab, party spokesman Ahsan Iqbal said. There...

Chandigarh, Oct 22: The Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) has constituted a high level state Grievances Co-ordination Committee to hear the complaints of political vendetta against party leaders and workers. More...

Activists of Bharatiya Janata Party, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal held protest demonstrations at various places in Punjab on the Ram Setu issue today. More...

Lahore, Sep 7 (ANI): The Musharraf regime has arrested over 1500 Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers, cutting into their plans to prepare for the return of the Sharif brothers, on September 10. The party's provincial leadership claimed that their activists were arrested were picked up...

THE Joint Action Committee of Punjab Roadways organised a gate rally here today. The members of the Conductor Union, Driver Union, Inspector Union etc discussed their problems. They also discussed their long-pending demands. The unions warned the government that if their demands were not...

LAHORE: Punjab home department Wednesday confirmed that police have detained some 312 opposition parties’ leaders and workers throughout the province. More...

New Orleans Indymedia reports that more than three hundred Indian workers in Pascagoula, Mississippi, claim that their employer, Signal International LLC, a marine fabrication company in Mississippi and Texas, is guilty of extreme labor exploitation. The workers are in the United States with...

Shiv Sena Workers and SAD(A) Clash By SSNews, varinder walia, gurbaxpuri, tribune, ndtv Dec 3, 2006, 14:10...

Five Sikhs who say the Metropolitan Transportation Authority humiliated them by ordering them to wear MTA logos on their turbans when they work in the subways filed federal discrimination complaints Friday...

Employees file complaint over requirement that they wear MTA logos on their turbans at work. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=11mgkap6i/*http%3A//www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,162703,00.html

A Malaysian employer forcibly cut the hair of three of her Sikh employees from India and prohibited them from wearing turbans – a grave violation of the religions centuries-old custom, a newspaper reported Sunday...

Twelve workers were missing and feared drowned after a ferry crowded with two dozen people capsized on the rain-swollen Sutlej River in northern Punjab state...

For three years, Scott Kirwin programmed databases for JP Morgan in Newark. As a database programmer, the Brandywine Hundred resident was responsible for handling technical support for the company's internal operations worldwide...

washingtonpost.com - The Supreme Court made it easier to sue for age discrimination on the job yesterday, ruling that older workers may take their employers to federal court even in cases in which the alleged adverse impact on them was not intentional...