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Rederi AB TransAtlantic Conducts a Rights Issue
2013-04-24 01:52:42| Appliances - Topix.net
Rederi AB TransAtlantic's Industrial Shipping division has experienced very difficult market conditions over the last two years.
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US: Worker rights group to protest at Gap HQ
2013-04-22 16:38:09| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
A demonstration is set to take place at Gap's headquarters in San Francisco on Thursday (25 April) to protest against garment worker conditions in Bangladesh.
Earth Day: Time to Recognize the Rights of Nature
2013-04-22 15:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNBC: It's Earth Day 2013, and it's a good time to step back and see how we've been doing since the first one 1970. That's when 20 million people took to the streets to protest rivers on fire, DDT-poisoned birds, sewage on beaches and a devastating oil spill off the pristine Santa Barbara, Calif., coast. Soon after, many of our basic national environmental laws were passed in direct response to this massive grassroots movement. Is there another wave of this activism coming? Since those early days,...
Locals need more legal rights in big African land deals - report
2013-04-22 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: Can legal reforms help affected communities have a bigger say about African land deals? As negative impacts of large commercial land acquisitions are exposed, people who feel wronged by them are becoming more engaged and searching for ways to take action, research shows. Ensuring they have, and know about, legal rights could help, experts say. Large-scale land deals in can offer benefits, such as job opportunities, market access and infrastructure improvements, supporters say. But critics note...
Gene wars: the last-ditch battle over who owns the rights to our DNA
2013-04-21 11:15:17| Biotech - Topix.net
A US biotech company is fighting to protect the patents it took out on a test for a cancer-causing gene.
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