make things fair » health http://makethingsfair.com a vantage point on activist consumerism Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:57:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 UK Government To Take Trafficking More Seriously http://makethingsfair.com/2009/05/uk-government-to-take-trafficking-more-seriously/ http://makethingsfair.com/2009/05/uk-government-to-take-trafficking-more-seriously/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 10:30:09 +0000 Jonathan Morgan http://makethingsfair.com/?p=1056 UK House of Commons

A select committee report released today insists that the UK Government, Judges and Police begin to take Trafficking in Persons more seriously:

“[law] enforcement is patchy, prosecution rates are low and there is little protection for victims. What we have is in effect a resurgence of a type of slave trade, yet we have no good information on the scale of the problem”

(via The Guardian, photo: Maurice)

]]> http://makethingsfair.com/2009/05/uk-government-to-take-trafficking-more-seriously/feed/ 0 The painful impact of tyres and toilet paper on 3rd world women http://makethingsfair.com/2009/03/the-painful-impact-of-tyres-and-toilet-paper-on-3rd-world-women/ http://makethingsfair.com/2009/03/the-painful-impact-of-tyres-and-toilet-paper-on-3rd-world-women/#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:19:20 +0000 Jonathan Morgan http://jonathanmorgan.org/?p=977 Nigerian Women

Communities in Nigeria, Papua New Guinea and Brazil, are being robbed of their sustainability by the practices of large scale Soap, Toilet Paper and Tyre manufacturers:

In the case of Nigeria, in 2007, the French tire maker Michelin came in to the Iguóbazuwa Forest Reserve, a biologically diverse region supplying food for around 20,000 people. Michelin bulldozed the forest and local farm lands to convert them into rubber plantations. Women living there lost their subsistence farms and the local forest which provided medicinal herbs and plants.

~ Sustainablog

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