Skip to main content

Home/ Ergonweb/ Group items tagged US

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Stuart Bell

Hewlett-Packard Joins Push to Limit Use of Student Labor in China - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...of-student-labor-in-china.html

Electronics supply chain labour

shared by Stuart Bell on 08 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Stuart Bell on 08 Feb 13
     
    New efforts by HP to limit use of temporary student workers
Stuart Bell

US investors call for end to human trafficking in supply chains - 0 views

www.iccr.org/...pr_ht051811.php

forced labour supply chain labour

shared by Stuart Bell on 25 May 11 - No Cached
  • Stuart Bell on 25 May 11
     
    US investor coalition, ICCR, is pressing 25 companies to adopt policies to avoid potential human trafficking in their supply chains
Stuart Bell

MPI-post-2015-MDGs - 0 views

www.ophi.org.uk/...MPI-post-2015-MDGs-FINAL.pdf

MDGs living wage

shared by Stuart Bell on 28 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Stuart Bell on 28 Feb 13
     
    "A global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2.0 could be used as a headline indicator for the post-2015 Millennium Development Goals, providing an intuitive overview of multidimensional poverty to complement a $1.25/day measure.
Stuart Bell

2011 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 0 views

www.state.gov/...190814.htm

'labour rights' 'human

shared by Stuart Bell on 30 May 12 - No Cached
  • Stuart Bell on 30 May 12
     
    2011 US State Dept analysis of human rights situation country-by-country. Includes labour rights.
Stuart Bell

DFID Private-sector-approach-paper-May2011 - 0 views

www.dfid.gov.uk/...tor-approach-paper-May2011.pdf

DFID private sector

shared by Stuart Bell on 08 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Stuart Bell on 08 Jun 11
     
    DFID's new private sector policy paper "Our new approach to working with the private sector is about us doing more with and for private enterprise, extending this work in new areas, and doing it better. We want private sector thinking to become as much part of DFID's DNA as our work with charities and governments. The new approach will deliver results for poor people: better job opportunities and incomes; more readily available and affordable finance for households and small businesses; and more accessible, better quality healthcare, schooling and basic services."
Kirsten Newitt

China: Migrant workers earn more than graduates - 0 views

www.shanghaidaily.com/...earn%2Bmore%2Bthan%2Bgraduates

wages China migrant workers

shared by Kirsten Newitt on 01 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • A SURVEY by Tsinghua University of college graduates' income has once again attracted attention. It found that 69 percent of students who graduated in 2011 were paid less than 2,000 yuan (US$314) a month for their first job. Meanwhile, the National Statistics Bureau said migrant workers' monthly wages reached a record 2,049 yuan a month in 2011.
Kirsten Newitt

Brazil gains business and influence as it offers aid and loans in Africa - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...in-reaching-out-to-africa.html

Brazil Africa

shared by Kirsten Newitt on 08 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Brazil, which has more people of African descent than any other country outside of Africa itself, is assertively raising its profile again on the continent, building on historical ties from the time of the Portuguese empire.
  • The charm offensive is paying off in surging trade flows between Brazil and Africa, growing to $27.6 billion in 2011 from $4.3 billion in 2002.
  • Some of Brazil’s biggest inroads, predictably, are in Portuguese-speaking countries like Angola, where the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht ranks among the largest employers, and Mozambique, where the mining giant Vale has begun a $6 billion coal expansion project.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • But Brazilian companies are also scouring other parts of Africa for opportunities, putting down stakes in Guinea and Nigeria. A leading Brazilian investment bank, BTG Pactual, started a $1 billion fund in May focused on investing in Africa. New links are also emerging, including Brazilian farming ventures in Sudan; a flight from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, to São Paulo; and a fiber optic cable connecting northeast Brazil to West Africa.
Kirsten Newitt

China and ILO sign South-South cooperation agreement - 0 views

www.ilo.org/...index.htm

ILO china South South cooperation

shared by Kirsten Newitt on 12 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Under the “Partnership Agreement for Promoting Technical Cooperation with a Focus on South-South Initiatives”, the People’s Republic of China is committing US$1 million over three years to support South-South cooperation and the Decent Work agenda. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People’s Republic of China will assist developing countries in Asia promote full employment and decent work, through innovative technical cooperation projects that will facilitate the dissemination of good practices.
  • The agreement makes China the second of the so-called BRICS countries (Brazil, China, India, the Russian Federation, and South Africa) to sign a South-South agreement with the ILO.
1 - 13 of 13
Showing 20▼ items per page