Can it be that our green heroes Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt care about the cachet of owning a Prius but not about the abused workers making these feel-good cars?

A report from the National Labor Committee released earlier this month alleging abusive working conditions in Japanese Toyota Prius plants provides a much needed jolt to the environmental and business communities about the danger of viewing environmental concerns as separate from human concerns.

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) is appalled at the levels of violence and intimidation being inflicted on the people of Zimbabwe by the illegitimate Robert Mugabe regime. Political violence in the country has reached alarming if not catastrophic proportions.

For Immediate Release

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Contact: Allison Lenthall, 703-600-9324, allison [at] kelleycampaigns.com

Sarah Pray, 202-721-5623, spray [at] pwypusa.org

Witnesses explain benefits of EITD Act for U.S. businesses, energy security and international human rights

Funmi Komolafe

Lagos

The Nigeria Labour Congress has condemned the trial of two trade unionists; the president and general secretary of the Zimbabwean Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), Comrades Lovemore Matombo and Wellington Chibebe by the government of Robert Mugabe for allegedly making inciting statements on May 1, 2008.