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AVAAZ.org

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Name: AVAAZ.org

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Thinking Before Buying

I find myself thinking now before I enter a Gap or H&M.See more: http://blodic.us/business/thinking-before-buying-21-0.htmThis is not my normal 'can I afford to buy something' thought, but rather I am wondering whether or not the company I might give ... [Published Blodic.us - May 17 2013]

Entities: Bangladesh, H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB, AVAAZ.org, Fire Safety

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Petition targeting plan to open protected forests in Indonesia for mining, logging reaches 1M signatures

An AVAAZ petition calling upon Indonesian officials to put a stop to a proposal to open tens of thousands of hectares of protected rainforest to mining, logging, and oil palm plantations has surpassed one million signatures. ... [Published Mongabay.com - May 16 2013]

Entities: Mining, Indonesia, AVAAZ.org

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Nestlé SA

Little lawsuit, big implications for future of fracking projects

We're bringing people together across the country, across generations and across political stripes to build a better Canada.And Canada needs you now! Right now, a community in Ontario's heartland is at the centre of a David vs. Goliath legal fight to ... [Published Council of Canadians - May 16 2013]

Entities: Hydraulic Fracturing, Lawsuit, Nestlé SA, Canada, Maude Barlow

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB

Firms sign up to garment safety pact

Some of the world's major clothing retailers have agreed to a pact to improve safety in Bangladesh's garment factories following the Rana Plaza building collapse. However, two of the largest, WalMart and Gap, have kept their distance from the agreeme ... [Published Morning Star Online - May 14 2013]

Entities: H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB, Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Bangladesh, RIGHTS Consortium

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Massimo Dutti

Global Retail Giants Sign Bangladesh Accord

Some of the world's largest international clothes retailers have signed up to an accord intended to protect manufacturing workers in Bangladesh following rioting over conditions in the industrial Ashulia district of Dhaka. Primark and $ H&M$ are the latest ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 14 2013]

Entities: Bangladesh, H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB, Massimo Dutti, AVAAZ.org, C&A

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 3 reports

Primark Stores Ltd

Major garment retailers back factory safety accord in Bangladesh

In a landmark move, six big apparel retailers, including H&M and Inditex, have agreed to sign a far-reaching and legally binding plan that requires the buyers to help finance fire safety and building improvements in the factories they use in Banglade ... [Published Asia News Network - May 14 2013]

Entities: Bangladesh, H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB, Primark Stores Ltd, Workers, Wal-Mart Stores Inc

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 2 reports

H&M backs Bangladesh building safety accord

Sweden's retail giant H&M has decided to sign up to a building safety agreement in the wake of the factory collapse that killed more than 1,000 garment workers in Bangladesh.Sweden's H&M to open 50 new stores in India (29 Apr 13)H&M set to dress Sweden's ... [Published The Local Sweden - May 13 2013]

Entities: H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB, Bangladesh, AVAAZ.org, Sustainability

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Sticky substance kills nearly 3,000 Dorset seabirds

WHAT has been described as “one of the worst UK marine pollution incidents in decades” has seen nearly 3,000 birds washed up on the south coast.Dorset’s beaches are among those receiving more than 2,900 seabirds affected by polyisobutene pollution. At ... [Published Dorset Echo - May 13 2013]

Entities: Marine Pollution, Peter Tinsley, Torrey Canyon, MSC Napoli, Discharge

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 1 reports

Retailers are pressed on safety at factories

A wide spectrum of government officials, investors and religious groups are warning major retailers like Walmart, Benetton and Gap that they could face financial repercussions from consumers, damage to their stock value or sustained public protests if ... [Published Bangladesh Daily Star - May 12 2013]

Entities: Bangladesh, Wal-Mart Stores Inc, H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 3 reports

Bangladesh death toll hits 1000

Dhaka: The death toll from the collapse of the Bangladesh garment factory building two weeks ago has risen to 1000, according to authorities.Shahnewaz Mohammad Golam Zakaria, an army captain in control room supervising the rescue operation, told Bloomberg ... [Published Sydney Morning Herald - May 09 2013]

Entities: Bangladesh, AVAAZ.org, Gap Inc, Sohel Rana

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 23 reports

Afghan interpreters seeking asylum in UK hand petition to Government

Campaigners calling for Afghan interpreters to be granted asylum in the UK have handed a 78,000-strong petition to the Government.The group, including one interpreter who has fled to the UK, as well as former servicemen who served in Afghanistan, gave ... [Published Herald Scotland - May 04 2013]

Entities: United Kingdom, AVAAZ.org, Afghanistan, Paddy Ashdown

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 11 reports

Protecting the bees

The European Union plans to restrict the use of three pesticides to better protect dwindling bee populations.The announcement was cheered by environmentalists, disappointed chemical companies and came after the bloc's 27 nations failed to agree on a common ... [Published Taranaki Daily News - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Tonio Borg, Pesticide, neonicotinoid

Quotes

...pointed out that Bangladesh has just 18 qualified labour inspectors to monitor the nearly 5,000 garment factories in the Dhaka area alone. "High levels of corruption and political interference in the inspection process will continue to jeopardise the integrity and safety of garment manufacturing operations" it stated

Reputational risk fear triggers corporate reaction to Bangladesh tragedy [Published Commercial Risk Europe - May 17 2013]

Labour groups applauded the retailers that signed the pact. Worker Rights Consortium executive director Scott Nova said that "this agreement is exactly what is needed to bring an end to the epidemic of fire and building disasters that have taken so many lives." Since the Rana Plaza collapse human rights group Avaaz has collected more than 900,000 signatures on a petition urging Gap and H&M to accept the pro...

Firms sign up to garment safety pact [Published Morning Star Online - May 14 2013]

"We hope for a broad coalition of signatures in order for the agreement to work effectively on ground."

H&M Backs Bangladesh Safety Plan [Published Huffington Post UK - May 13 2013]

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Global calls to save Aceh forest [Published Jakarta Post - 9 hours ago]
Reputational risk fear triggers corporate react... [Published Commercial Risk Europe - May 17 2013]
Thinking Before Buying [Published Blodic.us - May 17 2013]
Petition targeting plan to open protected fores... [Published Mongabay.com - May 16 2013]
Little lawsuit, big implications for future of ... [Published Council of Canadians - May 16 2013]
Justice4the21 - fighting for the truth about th... [Published Birmingham Mail - May 15 2013]
Online advocacy, slacktivism and making a real ... [Published Digital News Asia - May 14 2013]
Firms sign up to garment safety pact [Published Morning Star Online - May 14 2013]
Benetton agrees to sign Bangladesh safety pact [Published Star News Online - May 14 2013]
Global Retail Giants Sign Bangladesh Accord [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 14 2013]
Major garment retailers back factory safety acc... [Published Asia News Network - May 14 2013]
Big retailers back safety accord in Bangladesh [Published Beaver County Times - May 14 2013]
Major retailers back factory safety accord [Published Bangladesh Daily Star - May 13 2013]
H&M Backs Bangladesh Safety Plan [Published Huffington Post UK - May 13 2013]
H&M, other retailers back Bangladesh factory sa... [Published Financial Post - Top Stories - May 13 2013]
Search for Bangladesh dead concludes; 1,127 bod... [Published National Post - Top Stories - May 13 2013]
H&M, others back new Bangladesh factory safety ... [Published Sharenet - May 13 2013]
H&M backs safety accord in Bangladesh factories [Published Denver Post - May 13 2013]
H&M backs Bangladesh building safety accord [Published The Local Sweden - May 13 2013]
H&M Agrees to Bangladesh Safety Plan [Published New York Times - May 13 2013]
Sticky substance kills nearly 3,000 Dorset seab... [Published Dorset Echo - May 13 2013]
BD’s textile industry crying out for change [Published DAWN Group - May 12 2013]
Retailers are pressed on safety at factories [Published Bangladesh Daily Star - May 12 2013]
Global support for Bangladesh safety surpasses ... [Published Scoop - May 11 2013]
Retailers Are Pressed on Safety at Factories [Published New York Times - May 11 2013]
DI refuses ad calling on H&M to "help clean-up ... [Published Radio Sweden - May 10 2013]
Bangladesh garment factory disaster death toll ... [Published TNT Magazine - May 10 2013]
Bangladesh 1,000 Deaths Recall Disasters From T... [Published Bloomberg - May 10 2013]
Crushed to make our clothes [Published fairplanet - May 09 2013]
Morning Express: Teen attacked by gang [Published Sydney Morning Herald - May 09 2013]

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Crushed to make our clothes [Published fairplanet - May 09 2013] We’ve all seen the horrific images of hundreds of innocent women burned or crushed to death in factories while making our clothes . In the next few days we can get companies to stop it happening again. Big fashion brands source from hundreds of ...
WTF Wednesday: CBC under attack…again [Published This.org feed - May 08 2013] The Conservatives are at it again with another sneak-attack on democracy. This time one of the targets is an old favourite—the CBC. If you search hard enough, tucked away in the 111 pages of unrelated motions , you’ll piece together the government’s ...
Turf War Brewing in Brazil Over Corruption Inve... [Published Global Voices Online - May 07 2013] [All links lead to Portuguese language pages, except when otherwise noted.] On the heels of a landmark corruption case [en] in Brazil that saw former members of ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's government convicted of participating in a vote-buying ...
Digital highlights, April 27th 2013 [Published Newsbook - The Economist - Apr 25 2013] Intelligent Life on Android Our culture and lifestyle magazine is now available on Android tablet for the first time, as well as on the iPad and iPhone. The new issue features Ricken Patel, the founder of Avaaz. Download it free from Google Play or ...
GM salmon’s global HQ – 1,500m high in the Pana... [Published EnviroLib - Apr 24 2013] Suzanne Goldenberg AquaBounty’s GM salmon fish farm in Bajo Mono, near Boquete, western Panama (Photograph: Sheena Rossiter/Avaaz) Aquabounty’s GM salmon fish farm in Boquete, Panama Photograph: Sheena Rossiter It is hard to think of a more unlikely setting ...

Audio/Video

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VIDEO: How political campaigns are moving online [Published BBC News Video - Politics - Feb 01 2013]
VIDEO: Struggling Syrians face tough winter [Published BBC News Video - World - Dec 21 2012]