Churches in the United States including St. Patrick's Cathedral and Trinity Church in New York City sell crucifixes made under horrific Sweatshop conditions in China, where workers, including young girls as young as 15, are forced to work 19 hour shifts seven days a week, a report by the National Labor Committee reveals.
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Testimony timed to tie Iraq to 9/11 - Victims families
Timing of Iraq war commander Gen. David Petraeus' testimony the Congress is a cheap attempt by President George W. Bush and his administration to draw a non-existent link between Iraq and 9/11, families of the victims of the Sep 11, 2001 terror attacks claimed today.
Jews protest against England v. Israel football match
Jewish campaigners for a boycott of Israel are to hold a vigil outside the Wembley on Saturday 8th September where Israel will play England in a Euro 2008 qualifying match.
Bush's ME democracy "missing in action"
United States President George W. Bush's strategy of promoting democracy in the Middle East has sharpened the Arabs negative
perception against the United States and hardened the Islamists position toward the existing regimes and moderate Arabs, a Middle Eastern scholar argues in the latest edition of the journal Arab Insight.
Uniform makers pushed into poverty by supermarkets
The school uniforms sold cheaply in major UK supermarkets are being produced by women workers in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and those women earn a very little amount - sometimes only five pence per hour working over 70 hours per week, Action aid revealed in a report published this week.
Myanmar crackdown criticised
Human rights groups harshly criticised the Burmese government for not releasing the protesters arrested for peacefully demonstrating against increasing prices and deteriorating economic conditions immediately.
GoDaddy suspends 10 Chinese human rights sites without warning
Internet domain registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy has come under heavy criticism for suspending 10 Chinese human rights sites without warning on August 17.
Army chiefs covered up Iraqi prisoner abuses
Senior military officials covered up Iraqi prisoner abuses by US forces in 2003, according to new documents obtained by human rights groups under the Freedom of Information Act which also revealed that an Army investigator found that the conditions of prisoners held in isolation at Abu Ghraib qualified as torture.
South Asia floods becoming a humanitarian disaster
More than two weeks into some of the worst monsoonal flooding to have hit South Asia in a long time, Bangladesh, India and Nepal are still reeling from flash flooding that has affected around 30 million people.
US aid inflates Israel war budget
Israel Cabinet announced an expanded defense budget of 50.5 billion New Israel Shekels (~US$ 11.9 billion) today, with United States footing quarter of the bill.
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