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Nakonde NGO Lectures Traders On Child Labour [Zambia]
Author: Times of Zambia
Mr Mulalika cited Nakonde central as the main area where many children were used as cheap labour..."These children are terribly abused by both international and local traders who make them carry heavy goods on their heads."
Timber Pirates Raid Zambia's Forest Treasures
Author: Singy Hanyona, Environment News Service
[referring to new report by African Friendship Fund]
Reebok Announces 2002 Human Rights Award Recipients: Four Women to be Honored
Author: Reebok
The 2002 winners include the founder of the first independent labor union in Indonesia; an advocate for abused children in Zambia; a rescuer of young girls enslaved as prostitutes in India; and an activist at the forefront of a new generation of civil...
- Related companies: Reebok (part of adidas)
full report: The Limitations of Corporate Social Responsibility on Zambia’s Copperbelt - Konkola Copper Mines (KCM): Environmental Management Plan (May 2001)
Author: Patricia Feeney, Oxfam
People living on Zambia’s Copperbelt are confronted with a barrage of toxic chemicals and other pollutants all of which undermines their right to health and damages their livelihoods. But the development agreements between the Government of Zambia ...
summary: The Limitations of Corporate Social Responsibility on Zambia’s Copperbelt - Executive Summary
Author: Patricia Feeney, Oxfam
Diamond industry still funding Angolan civil war - What is it good for?
Author: Global Witness
The latest and possibly most damning report to date by the United Nations Monitoring Mechanism of Sanctions against Unita has reported that it is business as usual in the diamond trading capitals of the world when it comes to the trade in conflict and...
Rise in Child Labour Worries Zimba [Zambia]
Author: Bivan Saluseki, The Post [Zambia]
Child labour is on the rise in Zambia, labour minister Newstead Zimba has disclosed...Zimba said government will from now on cancel work permits for foreign investors found indulging in child labour and racial discrimination.
Deforestation continues at a high rate in tropical areas; FAO calls upon countries to fight forest crime and corruption
Deforestation continues at a high rate in tropical areas; FAO calls upon countries to fight forest crime and corruption
Author: UN Food and Agriculture Organization
Tropical countries continue to lose their forests at a very high rate, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned in a new issue of the "State of the World's Forests 2001", which was published today..."The countries with the highest net...