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Tackling systemic human and workers’ rights issues in garment supply chains
Society, Politics & Law

Tackling systemic human and workers’ rights issues in garment supply chains

...change for workers. In Bangladesh, our programme is focused on social dialogue in garment factories - developing and training unions, Workers’ Participation Committees and management to have better communications, empowering workers to raise and resolve grievances. In South India, we are working to address a number of workers’ rights issues in the spinning mills and...
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What is Indigenous Psychology?
Education & Development

What is Indigenous Psychology?

...changing social processes in a community context are identified as ‘local knowledge’. It is believed to facilitate social change and is an essential gatekeeper for empowering local communities. The process of internalizing local knowledge is manifested in our everyday life, for example, adherence to the local customs and celebration of localised practices. The ongoing...
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Article 10 mins
Strangers on a train platform: Refugees feel the hostility of Hungary
Society, Politics & Law

Strangers on a train platform: Refugees feel the hostility of Hungary

...Climate of fear Hungary has long been polarised over Europe. Fidesz and its sister party KDNP (the Christian Democratic People’s Party) have stirred up popular fear and hatred of the West, of Western capitalism, and of Western lifestyles, which promote “unnatural” relationships. Fidesz has styled itself as a guardian of “Europe” against the threat of the...
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UK nuclear industry faces Brexit fall-out
Society, Politics & Law

UK nuclear industry faces Brexit fall-out

...Board, which was established by the UK government in 2013, said a whole lot of new international agreements would have to be in place before anything in the nuclear sector could be transferred between countries. “We would be crippled without other agreements in place,” she said. Originally published on May 17th by the Climate News Network, written by Paul Brown...
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The Dates of the Buddha
History & The Arts

The Dates of the Buddha

...climate for the acceptance of Buddhist ideas, and generated among Buddhist monks certain expectations of patronage and influence on the machinery of political decision making. Prior to Ashoka Buddhism was a relatively minor tradition in India and some scholars have proposed that the impact of the Buddha in his own day was relatively limited. Archaeological evidence for...
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Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...change? This free course can help you with your own housing decisions, as well as understand the politics that often drive the housing market...Everyone needs a place they call home and housing costs are usually your largest outgoing. Many aspire to buy, but rising house prices, while good news for existing owners, put homeownership beyond the reach of others. This free...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
Society, Politics & Law

Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview

...change. Regime change can and repeatedly does put even the core structural principles and values of any institution in jeopardy. Institutional memory fades and anything can be sacrificed to the agenda of the realpolitik of the new crew at top table. Binney and Drake will have seen many internal organisational regime changes during their lives. They absorbed the associated...
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George at Asda – What makes clothing ownership and use sustainable?
Money & Business

George at Asda – What makes clothing ownership and use sustainable?

...change shape and size, simply wear-out our clothing, and like to adapt to changing fashions so feel special in our clothes. Avoiding throwing things away when we have finished with them, so they don’t end up in landfill, can be a real way to make the clothing we own more sustainable. Donating unwanted clothing to friends, family or good causes for reuse or for recycling...
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