Can we put our personal actions and values into our work? Here are a few sites that present jobs and advice for people who are looking for work that is about more than the bottom line.
GoodWork - Canadian green job site - can search by cities and keywords
Idealist - International job site - most postings are for US NGOs - great networking site
Charity Village - Canada's NGO and non-profit clearinghouse - loads of ideas for job searches
Environment Jobs UK - the United Kingdom's premium green job site since 1994!
Fair trade gifts can be successful as food, says Piercy SpringFair.com Marketplace, UK - 18 minutes ago By Mary Clarke Shared Earth founder Jeremy Piercy told Autumn Fair visitors today that there was no reason that fair trade products shouldn’t be as ...
"Renegotiate NAFTA": What’s lurking behind the TRADE Act? Center for Research on Globalization, Canada - 18 hours ago A wide coalition of leftist organizations— including labor unions, fair trade, and environmental groups— are uniting around the Democratic bill that aspires ...
Ethical Trade - Fairest of all The Island (subscription), Sri Lanka - 21 hours ago A sea of acronyms, declarations and apparently well meaning organizations has arisen around the meaning of fair trade. Yet really there is nothing complex ...
NAFTA opponent campaigns for Tom Allen Bangor Daily News, ME - 23 hours ago Representatives of labor unions in Greater Bangor and the Maine Fair Trade Campaign, a coalition of 50 groups that supports fair trade are expected to ...
Port may become Ontario's first Fair Trade City Welland Tribune, Canada - Sep 5, 2008 Nigh, who manages the Ten Thousand Villages store, has arranged a public meeting to gauge the community's interest in making Port Colborne a Fair Trade City ...
Damascus Authorities Repress Basic Freedoms
French President Nicolas Sarkozy should use his visit to Syria on September 3 and 4, 2008, to raise human rights concerns with President Bashar al-Asad, Human Rights Watch said today. In particular, Sarkozy should urge Asad to release activists detained solely for exercising their rights to freedom of expression and association. He should also ask Asad to make public all information on the violent suppression of a riot at Sednaya prison in July 2008.
Most Deaths From Suicides or in Botched Escapes
The high death toll of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon, from unnatural causes, shows the urgent need to improve their working conditions, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on the official steering committee tasked with improving the situation of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon to investigate the root causes of these deaths and develop a concrete national strategy to reduce them.
Most Deaths From Suicides or in Botched Escapes
The high death toll of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon, from unnatural causes, shows the urgent need to improve their working conditions, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on the official steering committee tasked with improving the situation of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon to investigate the root causes of these deaths and develop a concrete national strategy to reduce them.
The Mongolian government should protect the human and labor rights of North Koreans coming to Mongolia to work, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Mongolias minister of social welfare and labor.
The Mongolian government should protect the human and labor rights of North Koreans coming to Mongolia to work, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Mongolias minister of social welfare and labor.
