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Friday and Saturday, 20 and 21 September 2013
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This symposium asks about the spaces and places within which political thought was conducted, circulated, and debated in the decades leading up to the Parliamentary crisis of 1642, and it does so with a format that is designed to open up to general discussion from comments and framing questions set by session leaders. All political thinking occurred within identifiable institutions, arenas, and even buildings, but the ways in which these spaces shaped political thought have rarely been comprehensively assessed. What value might there be if the history of political thought were to follow a variety of other historical fields in taking a "spatial turn"? Sponsored by the Folger Institute Center for the History of British Political Thought, this symposium will bring together several dozen scholars interested in the early seventeenth century to address the distinctive kinds of political thought that emerged from country houses and aristocratic households, in universities and theatres, at the Inns of Court and the common-law courts, or from chartered companies and colonial settlements. How did they differ from, and how might they have converged with, the political thinking conducted in Westminster Hall or at Paul's Cross? How did political thought circulate among these spaces, in what forms, and with what transformative effects as it moved?
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Kathleen Lynch, Executive Director of the Folger Institute
9:30 am – 11:00 am
Chair: Julia Rudolph, Associate Professor of History, North Carolina State University
Thomas Cogswell, Professor of History, University of California, Riverside
Noah Millstone, Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics, Harvard University
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Coffee Break
11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Aristocratic Households and University Halls
Chair: Gordon Schochet, Professor of Political Science Emeritus, Rutgers University
Richard Serjeantson, Fellow and Lecturer, Trinity College, Cambridge University
Sarah Mortimer, Lecturer and Tutor in Modern History, Christ Church, Oxford University
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Lunch on your own (suggestions provided in folders)
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Spaces of Religion in Early Modern London
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Mary Morrissey, Lecturer in English Literature, University of Reading
David Como, Associate Professor of Early Modern British History, Stanford University
Saturday, 21 September 2013
9:00 am – 9:30 am
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Spaces of Law
Chair: J.G.A. Pocock, Harry C. Black Emeritus Professor of History, The Johns Hopkins University
Christopher Brooks, Professor of History, Durham University
Alan Orr, Chair, Humanistic Studies, Maryland Institute College of Art
Barbara Shapiro, Emerita Professor of Rhetoric in the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley
Court and Country
Chair: Lois G. Schwoerer, Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History Emerita, The George Washington University
Ann Hughes, Professor, School of Humanities (History), Keele University
Cynthia C. Herrup, John R. Hubbard Chair in British History and Professor of History and Law, University of Southern California
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Trading Companies and Colonies
Chair: David Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor and Chair of History, Harvard University
Philip J. Stern, Associate Professor of History, Duke University
Andrew Fitzmaurice, Associate Professor of History, University of Sydney
Carla Gardina Pestana, Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World, University of California, Los Angeles
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Closing Reception (Board Room, Folger Shakespeare Library)


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The Global Greens Charter is a document that 800 delegates from the Green parties of 72 countries decided upon a first gathering of the Global Greens in Canberra, Australia in April 2001.[1]
The signatory parties and political movements of the Global Greens Charter commit themselves to global partnership and to six guiding principles. These principles are:
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The Charter builds on earlier Greens statements including in 1992 at the Rio Earth Summit,[2] the Millennium Declaration made at Oaxaca in 1999 and the Accord between the Green Parties of the Americas and the Ecologist Parties of Africa.
The draft Charter was prepared by Louise Crossley (Australian Greens), based upon the following documents.
- Ten Key Values of the Green Committees of Correspondence (US)
- Taiwanese interpretation of the ten key values
- Ten Key Values of the Canadian Greens
- The Earth Charter - Benchmark Draft II, April 1999
- Declaracion de principios (Mexico)
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- Valores fundamentais (Brazil)
- Guiding principles, including the Four Pillars of the European Greens
- Protocol between the African and American Green Party Federations
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The setting was festive and spirits were high for the 2010 Employee Holiday Social and Service Awards Dec. 9 on the Davenport Campus. About 275 employees gathered in the Cafeteria for the annual event, hosted by Davenport Campus President Dr. Donald Kern. Attendees enjoyed the program as well as elegant hors d'oeuvres and beverages provided by Aramark, and of course, each other's company. This was Dr. Kern's last opportunity to preside over the festivities and awards, as he will officially retire from Palmer College on Dec. 31.To start the program, Dr. Kern awarded three President's Citations of Distinguished Service for 2010. Those who received this honor were: Mary Pitcher, Licensing Research Coordinator, Institutional Planning and Research; Mike Rekemeyer, Website Manager, Marketing and Public Relations; and Dr. Dan Weinert, Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs.Employees received awards for five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 50 years of service, with Dr. Kern receiving his award for 50 years of service to Palmer from Chancellor Dr. Dennis Marchiori. Dr. Kern also was honored with a special video to commemorate his 50 years of dedicated service, produced by Tim Richardson, Marketing and Public Relations. Radiology Professor Dr. Robin Canterbury received a 35-year service award, and Donna Hamann, Clinical Radiology, and Dr. Ronnie Firth, Diagnosis and Radiology, received 30-year awards.The winner of the Outstanding Staff of the Year award was Patricia Jestel, who joined Palmer in 1996 and is the Continuing Education Department's Program Coordinator. Ms. Jestel was selected for her willingness to go above and beyond by working extra hours during evenings and weekends, her upbeat attitude, responsibility and pride in her work, and for being "solutions driven" and an "idea generator." Ms. Jestel's accomplishments this year included taking on the responsibilities of another full-time position in her department along with her own duties while maintaining a positive, upbeat attitude. She also worked with Aramark to create a new healthy line of seminar food. In addition, her nominator said that she cultivates the success of the CE travel event, and draws participants into CE programs with her attitude and personality and by making extra efforts to ensure doctors in the field feel valued by Palmer College. The 2010 Outstanding Faculty of the Year was Dr. Rachelle Herrity, who joined the Davenport Campus Technique Department faculty in 2002 and is currently an assistant professor in Technique. This year's winner was cited for consistently being one of the highest ranked faculty members in terms of student satisfaction. She also was commended for her efforts to help her colleagues write papers for peer-reviewed journals and serving as the associate editor of the Association for the History of Chiropractic journal, Chiropractic History. Her service to the Palmer community has also been exemplary, including serving on more than 10 committees this year alone. Dr. Herrity is advisor to many students and clubs, serves on the Faculty Senate and on the Dr. Kern's Health Challenge committee. Her community involvement is impressive as well. Dr. Herrity seeks out families in need at Christmas each year and makes sure they have everything they need for a Merry Christmas—from warm clothing and boots to food and even the pots and pans to cook it in. She also works with the Quad Cities YMCA to increase the number of books and computers available for children, and speaks to children about the function of bones while encouraging them to become chiropractors when they grow up. She served as co-chair of the YMCA's Partnership with Youth Campaign, which exceeded fundraising goals this year thanks in part to her efforts, and earlier this year received one of only two Community Impact Awards from the YMCA.Congratulations to all of the employees who received service or special awards this year!
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posted by: alyjoe16 on 08.29.2013 at 03:25 pm in Landscape Design Forum This is along the side if my house. I have a home daycare and this I the "entrance" area. Any ideas on what to plant for fall? I was thinking some mums, but would love some other ideas. The smal cutback shrubs (3 of them) in the picture are roses that are cut down to the ground every year. There are also day lilies that bloom every year....which gets me through August and then it's empty....
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Delicious sauce for anything from chicken to salmon to rice or just as a dip for brad or veggies- Submitted by NYFASHIONQUEEN Carbs: 11.8g | Fat: 3.7g | Fiber: 0.5g | Protein: 7.5g | Calories: 109.2
This dip tastes decadent but is very healthy. Great Valentine to share with someone you love! Submitted by DAKOTATURTLE Carbs: 3.4g | Fat: 0g | Fiber: 0.1g | Protein: 5.9g | Calories: 37.8
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Use as a dip for veggies or a spread on pita and sandwiches. Submitted by COACH_NICOLE Carbs: 21.2g | Fat: 12.8g | Fiber: 4.5g | Protein: 5.8g | Calories: 215.9
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Las Tortugas Deli Mexicana
I have driven past Deli Mexicana on Germantown Parkway just south of the Wolf River bridge for a long time and always wondered what a Mexican deli was. I finally checked it out today and I was highly impressed. Everything is fresh, handmade, and authentically Mexican.
If you're looking for a place to gorge yourself on queso dip, fajitas, and a #35 combo-Â this place isn't for you. It's apparent that this pisses some people off, because a note posted next to the register lets customers know that if you're rude to the staff, they will refuse to serve you. After working in Germantown in the past, I can probably name a few of the residents that would go in with their inflated sense of entitlement and get belligerent when they can't have an overflowing bowl of melted cheese to eat before their main course. I digress…
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A day trip to the Valley of Hope (the former Sungai Buloh Leprosy Settlement)
If I was to say one of the most charming places in the whole Klang Valley is former leper colony, you could be forgiven for thinking I was a bit unhinged. But trust me on this one: what was once the Sungai Buloh Leprosy Settlement is not just a beautiful spot to wander round, it has an uplifting story to go with it.
The settlement dates back to the late 1920s, when the British colonial authorities decided to implement a radically different way of treating leprosy sufferers. Instead of confining lepers to virtual prison camps, a self-sustaining community was built in a lush valley, 25km to the north of Kuala Lumpur.
This humane policy owes much to a forward thinking British doctor, Ernest Travers, who proposed the plan in 1923, after seeing at first hand the dispiriting conditions at existing facilities. Sir George Maxwell, as Chief Secretary of the Federated Malay States, made the scheme a reality, with construction beginning in 1926, and finishing ten years later.
At its height, the settlement had more than 2,000 residents, its own school, police force, places of worship, library, theatre, and even currency. Inspired by the "garden city" movement of the 19th century, it came to be known as "The Valley of Hope". So pleasant was it, that even when effective treatment became available, many former patients chose to stay.
Although a large proportion of the sufferers were ethnic Chinese, the settlement was also home to Indians, Malays, Javanese, Eurasians and indigenous people. Whatever their race, religion or class, they shared a common bond in being outcasts from society at large. The result was probably the most diverse yet harmonious community Malaysia has ever seen.
One of the most enlightened policies of the settlement was to encourage residents to grow their own plants for sale. Gradually, as leprosy became treatable, and the social stigma declined, more and more people came to Sungai Buloh to buy plants. Now the area is home to dozens of nurseries, and is acknowledged as Malaysia's foremost horticultural centre.
Barely 200 elderly sufferers still live in the settlement, some in their own homes, others in hospital quarters. Development plans looked set to turf these remaining residents out, but thanks to a campaign by the Save the Valley of Hope pressure group, a temporary reprieve has been won. Seventy-eight hectares — or about a third of the former settlement — was gazetted as a heritage site in April 2011.
Whether this heritage status is worth the paper it is written on is far from certain though, as little stands in the way of development in modern Malaysia (which doesn't stop some from fighting it). In a perfect world, the remaining residents would be allowed to live out the rest of their lives in peace and dignity, while the extraordinary story of the Sungai Buloh Leprosy Settlement would be celebrated with an informative visitor centre.
Visiting the settlement is possible by public transport, either by getting a Selangor Bus number 144A from Medan Pasar in Chinatown, and getting off at Sungai Buloh Hospital, or by getting the same bus from outside Sungai Buloh KTM Komuter station. Alternatively, get a cab from the KTM station.
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# Dr. P.S. Rawaton 02 Dec 2012 at 11:01 am
Respected Sir,
This is an outcome of my being mentally attached with the leprotic patients since my childhood when I was just a kid till I successfully cured four leprotic patients. I am now interested to cure the rest of leprotic patients, not only here in Rudrapur, Distt. U.S. Nagar, Uttarakhand state but all over India and the world. But I am finding it difficult as neither the patients themselves nor the govt wants that this menace should go be eradicated. Otherwise, I have come to this conclusion that if there is any simplest skin problem, it is the leprosy which has most simple and permanent cure in Homoeopathy. I am surprised to know why the program of eradication of leprosy has not met its target despite a lot of hue and cry made in this regard some years ago through the anchoring of Amitabh Bachhan. My research article will highlight the efficacy of the homoeopathic treatment in making open leprotic cases whether sterile or otherwise not only free from infection but there wounds which require daily or alternate days dressing would also be removed forever. People, agencies, government or private engaged in the treatment of leprotic are all enjoying government patronage but least concerned with the treatment/cure/eradication of the leprosy. I am in this opinion if doctor/physician like me (I am a qualified homoeopath) are involved, the days will not be far when all the patients suffering from the debilitating disease like the leprosy would be extinguished from the site. Do you really plan to cure/to eradicate this menace of leprosy sincerely. If yes, I am here to cooperate with you.
Thanking you,
Dr. P.S. Rawat,
Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, India
I got a chance to visit Leprosy Centre located in Chandigarh in the month of August-September of 1988 for the first and last time. Though I went there to treat leprosy-afflicted patients homoeopathically, but on reaching there I came to know that the patients were being treated under the supervision of doctors of Skin Division of Postgraduate Institute of Medical and Research Institute Chandigarh. So I did not think it appropriate to interfere in their mode of treatment in any manner. I noticed there that a lot of patients had their limbs covered with bandages which they got done in a private physician's clinic situated in sector 47. Then it did not strike in my mind to remove their bandages. So I did not feel the need to visit them again. I do not know why, a question always flashed in my soul why these patients got their limbs bandaged every second or third day by doctors/compounders while they were cured in true sense. This means that leprotic patients do not get fully cured even after taking mixed drug therapy (MDT).
This constant thinking developed into a desire to meet leprotic patients at a different Leprosy Center. At last, I got such a chance to visit a Leprotic Centre on 30 January 2011, located at Rudrapur which is the capital city of Udham Singh Nagar District. The fact is that being new to this place I did not have enough information about the populace settlement (though I had spent 5 months here). In spite of this, I used to visit Main Market and Bank of Baroda located at Galla Mandi from Agrasen Nagar, Bhadaipura occasionally for my personal work. During one of such visits, my gaze suddenly fell on a Leprosy Centre located at Left side of the road while I was on my heels. The sleeping thoughts in my mind got active, but then I did not had in my possession the potency of a leprosy-curing medicine through which I was able to treat two leprotic patients successfully in the past. That is why I had to wait for one-and-a-half months before I got a chance to bring the high potency (CM) of this medicine from my home in Chandigarh.
It was a Sunday on 30th January 2011, the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, but there was no mention of leprosy in the advertisements/descriptions in any of the newspapers which should have been issued by Family Welfare Division of Central or State Governments otherwise. Only a big advertisement, a colored one was issued by the Health and Family Welfare Ministry of Indian Government in which a picture of Mahatma Gandhi was published. Along with it a tricolour and colored photographs of Hon'ble Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad, Mr. Dinesh Trivedi and Mr. S. Selvan were shown. Beneath it, the achievements of National Rural Health Mission were highlighted in 9 lines in continuity. It was written below Mahatma Gandhi's picture—
"The dream of my Swaraj is Swaraj of poor people. Swaraj cannot be complete till there is an arrangement to guarantee that most basic needs of the most poorest person will be fulfilled."
–Mahatma Gandhi
The last one of the 9 achievements of NRHM – From the beginning of the mission from the year 1995 till 2010 the least cases of Polio have been found. This means that one could find no information mentioned about leprosy anywhere.
Around 12:30 in the mid of day, I started walking towards the Leprotic Centre from my home, I barely had in my possession a 2 dram plastic bottle containing some white medicated globules from November 30. Before this I used to observe, how people used to bring eatables, fruits and sweets along with them. Also on that day some people were coming along with a huge load of items containing mostly biscuit packets. One person was clicking photographs of everybody present there. It seemed that some factory owner along with his employees had come to distribute biscuit packets in the Leprosy Centre that were produced in his own factory, but I had gone there empty-handed. In spite of this, a lot of people surrounded me on reaching the Leprosy Centre. Actually these people were waiting for arrival of an employee of Electricity Department and they mistook me for that employee. When I introduced myself, the most of the patients did not think it necessary to remain there. Instead they left me. Some of the patients were talking amongst themselves about medicines being given to them by government doctors for their day-to-day ailments. They also showed me the medicines which contained some capsules and some small and big tablets. I was able to overhear a patient who was saying to other patient – oh you have been given Diazine for stomach ache, you should have been given ranitidine instead. After the crowd thinned, I told the patients present there about their treatment through Homoeopathic medicines. At this, they highlighted about how the government doctors used to take them to Dehradun and got them photographed. Two patients present there listened carefully to what I said. They got a chair arranged for me and I sat on it. The said there were one to two doctors in the city who used to treat them free of charge.
Ravi Nayak, a young patient was telling about himself that he has stayed in various Leprotic Centres/Hospitals across the country for his leprosy treatment, but he did not get proper treated properly in any of these. His right hand and right foot had degenerated to a stub and there was a white bandage on his ankle. Likewise another middle-aged patient Mahender Chauhan had a white bandage over right Malleolus bone of right feet. I did not think it appropriate to remove his bandages. All of a sudden I discovered an open wound in the right knee of Ravi Nayak in which there was no pus in it and no bandage was tied on it. I could not see this wound earlier as it was covered by a lungi (a cloth worn around the waist like a long skirt). According to Nayak, this wound got developed due to a hair follicle infection (boil). There were also three filled up signs on his left ham. He was telling that these signs also had resulted from a hair follicle infection (boil). He told that his daughter is being trained as a nurse in some nursing college in Pune and only she has advised him to get applied the squeezed liquid of wheat plants on the affected body parts. For this reason, the wound was looking open and clean. I advised him that this wound was not the result of a hair follicle infection (boil), but was a wound due to leprosy and why he is getting hair follicle infections (boils) again and again.
Nayak believed on my advice. Thereafter I instructed both Ravi and Mahender to take the leprosy medicine which I took along with me with a clean mouth in three doses after a three-hour gap each in a day. I made them eat one dose each there itself in my presence. I promised to come back after a week on the coming Monday. Then I returned to my home. Before coming back, I thought it appropriate to pen down my name, address and mobile number in their register. I also imparted them necessary instructions.
By doing so, though my mind-soul experienced a huge relief, but after a few moments a strange fear engulfed me due to a doubt that taking the high potency three doses of the medicine might lead to aggravation of the disease in the patients. Then I recollected that I had instructed them that if they faced any difficulty on taking the medication, they should inform me over the phone. That day passed somehow. The second day also passed in the same manner. I did not get any information on phone from them. On the third day, I had to pass by the Leprosy Centre for some personal work of mine. Fear coupled with doubt in my mind forced me to avoid even looking at the Leprotic Colony. This was also due to an old incident in Saharanpur city where I had given one or two rupees to a leprotic patient. This was seen by some other leprotic patients. They all came close to me and encircled me. Their disfigured faces, hands and feet can make any sensitive person quite uncomfortable.
As a result, I was heading towards my destination silently when somebody called me from behind by yelling "Dr. Saheb." The thought which made me dread, turned into reality. When I turned back to have a look, a middle-aged man was standing along with a small child at some distance. On getting close to them, I discovered that my own leprotic patient Mahender Chauhan along with his grandson had come to the road to enjoy the sun. In winter days, it becomes dark the moment sun sets. So both of them were getting ready to go back when Mahender spotted me going and he called me from back asking me to stop. I enquired about his well-being. He replied that he had thrown his bandage after removing it from his feet on Monday night itself because the wound had almost dried up. I also inspected the wound and indeed it had dried up completely. But still it would have taken 1-2 more days to become even. Mahender was very happy. He expressed his gratitude by saying I was God though I urged him to stop saying this. According to him, his wife is also afflicted with leprosy. The day I gave medicine to Mahender and Ravi, probably she had gone to city for begging. She also needs to get bandaged. His young son works in some factory and his son aged 5-6 years had come along with his grandfather to enjoy sunlight. When I told him as he is completely cured now, then why there is a need to live in a leprotic colony. He said where he would go now in this old age. This means that leprotic colony has become a permanent residence for him.
On asking about Ravi Nayak, Mahender said he is also cured. But how much he has been cured, I could not get full information on it. As per my prior commitment, I instructed the rest of patients to remain present in the leprotic colony on next Monday so that I can render them bandage-free forever after administering all of them the medication. Only then I would think of their cure from leprosy in real terms. Thinking this, I went a little further to Indira Chowk for buying fruits.
As per my promise, I reached Leprosy Centre at 1 p.m. (predetermined time) on next Monday. On reaching there, I saw that the whole of colony is devoid of people. There were hardly 3-4 males/females standing in front of some houses. On asking them, I came to know that most of the colony patients as well their family members were on their way to a function being organized by Gayatri Parivar, a social organization. All of them were brought to the function venue by arranging buses or trucks where all the people were to be provided meals along with cash disbursement. Feeling despondent, I returned to my residence.
Thus, the leprotic patients forced me to think again that they themselves want to remain leprotic patients. This enables them to receive benefits in many ways. That is the reason, the rest of the leprotic patients thought it more beneficial to travel, receive eatables and cash of Rs. 25 per head on the eve of Vidai (a Hindu ceremony to honor a person by bestowing money on him when leaving a place) than receiving the medicine. Then I also did not think it right to visit Leprosy Centre again for medicating patients. Yes, to get proper information about the existing condition of the patient Ravi Nayak, I went straight to the Leprosy Centre on March 2, 2011 on the eve of Shivratri, (a Hindu festival associated with Hindu God Lord Shiva) after fulfilling my official duty at Kheda Peripheral O.P.D. But on reaching there, I came to know that Ravi Nayak and Mahender Chauhan along with other people had gone outside the city to be take part in the Shivratri festival.
Readers might be really curious to know about the medicine for Leprosy disease. Though in Robin Murphy Repertory, there is a mention of about 57 medicines in total for leprosy, but I was able to cure all the leprotic patients by administering a single medicine in doses of different potencies. The first patient, who was a young lady, was given 50000 potency doses. The second patient, a small girl aged 2-3 years, was given 10000 potency doses. Third, a young lad and fourth, a middle-aged man, both were administered 1 lakh, meaning CM potency doses. Dr. Hahnemann has named this medicine as "King of Anti-Psora." Dr. Hahnemann mentions this medicine in his Laser Writing. Even I have not read this book, but other writers in "Organon of Medicine" have described Psora as leprosy. Leprosy is the most disfiguring form of Psoriatic Miasm. This has so much organ disfiguring potential that it has pushed Syphilis, another debilitating ailment to the second spot in the terms of destruction power. According to me, Psora not only creates functional disturbance but is also responsible for maximal bodily destruction. This miasm is found in every person. Its cure is possible only through Homoeopathic System of Medicine.
It is said when a child is born, he is free from this miasm completely. But as he grows up, this miasm starts sprouting inside the individual. On growing up, this miasm from one side begins to express in terms of sexual desire, anger, intoxication born of egoity, fondness, greed and pride, on the other it expresses in terms of big-small diseases of the human body such as itching, scratching, abscesses up to leprotic disease. Though, a human can remain free of this miasm for some time by taking Anti-Psoriatic medicines of Homoeopathic System, in spite of this, it is able to make inroads into human body. That is why he keeps on suffering with diseases time and again. It is impossible to keep it away from the body forever. But yes, just like as the body is made to undergo bath time and again, this can also be kept at bay by taking homoeopathic medicines time and again.
Readers, especially the physicians attached with any system of medicine, can themselves experiment on the King of Psoriatic medicine. Like me they can also treat, not only 2-4 leprotic patients, but thousands of leprotic patients by giving this single medicine or by giving Tuberculinum (in cases of Tuberculoid leprosy) in high potency, starting from 10000 according to instructions of Dr. Kent and remove leprosy disease forever. But then a new problem of rehabilitation of people, who are involved in the welfare of leprotic patients may arise. That is why, like other diseases, not resorting to total eradication of leprosy, is due to the vested interest of the rest of society itself. This is my thinking. Maybe this has been the policy of the Health Department. Otherwise, can't an able Homoeopathic physician employed in every Leprotic Centre/Hospital to eradicate all types of leprotic diseases. Surely this can be done.Dr. P.S. Rawat
Professor of Repertory
Chandola Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Rudrapur
District Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand, India91-9456577638


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Last week, we reported on Phil Robertson's departure from HTC. It looks like two other Senior HTC execs left HTC as well. Aside from Robertson, Atkins and Coombes left HTC days after the company announced EMEA co-founder Philip Blair was to take over Phil Robertson's place and become the new HTC UK and Ireland head.
However, HTC's spokesman would not confirm whether Atkins and Coombes will be replaced or if they have new jobs to jump to after leaving their respective HTC posts. It is understood that Gaelle Walton (HTC's Senior UK Marketing Manager) will be assuming some of Atkin's responsibilities.
HTC is set to change its Marketing techniques as they want to appeal more to the mass market and to basically build a brand that is targeted for young generation of today.
The company recently launched its HTC One, and Atkins said that HTC will look to "own the conversation" on social media with strategic media buys to penetrate the tough mobile phone market which we all know is heavily dominated by both Samsung and Apple.
Atkins joined HTC in 2011. He was Freesat's Commercial Marketing Manager before joining HTC. Since his involvement with the Taiwanese phone maker, he has overseen several marketing campaigns for the companies "One" series handsets and was in charge of HTC UK and Ireland activation of the brand's sponships of the UEFA Champions League and the MOBO Awards.
Coombes on the other hand joined HTC in 2011 as well, but this time, he came from Nokia, where he was in charge of the company's EE account.
Why are the HTC top execs are leaving the company now?
Your thoughts please.
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Getting back in the Saddle
On Christmas Eve it will have been four months to the date since I last rode a bicycle.
What's my excuse?
Well I can give you a long list of them – injury, work commitments, weather, lethargy, travelling yada yada yada – in the end, all they will ever be are excuses.
Now it's time to rectify that situation and I need some help from the ST faithful – your words of encouragement and any stories of similar experiences are welcomed.
First, I'll take you back.
In late August, the 2010 TransWales finished, an event which my brother and I competed in and both enjoyed. With a few days to go I developed a lump in my leg.
Said injury enforced a two week lay-off, during which my motivation rapidly evaporated.
Since then, I have took refuge in the comfort of my bed on any free weekends and when seldom the notion of riding a bike crossed my mind, the sight of rain, wind or even dark skies seems to be enough to scare the thought away quicker than a rat up a drain-pipe.
I currently have a half-built SS in my living room (i like SS just to keep you informed), a shelving unit full of tools and parts gathering dust and some new rubber that's itching to get to grips with fine trails – but in computer terms, the hardware is all fine, it's the software that needs re-programming.
What do you do when the idea of riding isn't that appealing?
Some of you will say "I've never had such a thought" – and you have my envy. But to the others who wake up on a planned riding day and think 'Do I really want to do this?' – what keeps you going?
What makes you get up and want to ride a bike?
2010 is nearly over and it will be remebered in part for a lack of riding – help me make 2011 the year of the Bike for me.
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Congratulations to Malala, our Skoll Awardee, and to Kailash, who Founded Skoll Awardee Organization GoodWeave
October 10, 2014 by Sally Farhat KassabThe Skoll Foundation congratulates the two 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Winners, Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi!
Earlier this year, Malala was awarded the Skoll Global Treasure Award, personally conferred by Skoll Foundation Chairman and founder Jeff Skoll at the Skoll World Forum. Kailash founded Skoll Awardee organization Goodweave, led today by social entrepreneur Nina Smith. Kailash was featured in the Skoll Foundation's "New Heroes" series on PBS.
"Nobel Peace-makers Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi prove what's possible in the world," said Sally Osberg, president and CEO of the Skoll Foundation. "Today's recognition of two magnificent agents of change shines a light on our shared responsibility to protect and educate the most precious asset of all: our children."
Above, watch Malala accept the Skoll Global Treasure Award earlier this year.
Below, see the New Heroes story about Kailash, and Kailash speaking at the 2009 Skoll World Forum.
GoodWeave Founder Wins Nobel Peace Prize
October 10, 2014 by GoodweaveFrom the cocoa fields of Côte d'Ivoire to the carpet sheds of Uttar Pradesh, there are 168 million children around the world who toil in obscurity. Today, their plight took center stage. This morning, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2014 peace prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai, two individuals who have staked their lives on the belief that children – regardless of gender, geography, faith, caste or societal circumstance – belong in classrooms.
In the announcement from Oslo, committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland said: "Showing great personal courage, Kailash Satyarthi, maintaining Gandhi's tradition, has headed various forms of protests and demonstrations, all peaceful, focusing on the grave exploitation of children for financial gain."
In the 1980s, once on an engineering career track, Kailash Satyarthi began rescuing children from bondage. As chairman of the South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude, he fought against child slavery one factory at a time, one child at a time. He conducted rescue raids and liberated children who were enduring extreme violence, some brutally beaten if they ever tried to escape.
Following one such raid, Satyarthi personally returned a trafficked boy to his home village. When he went to board a train home, Satyarthi saw dozens and dozens of children destined for the looms in the hands of middlemen. Arrested for causing a disturbance at the station, Satyarthi suddenly realized that this situation required a larger solution.
"Something else had to be done. I thought, 'Consumers have to be educated!'" Satyarthi said in a 2013 interview. This realization was for him a turning point and for the child labor movement, a profound shift in thinking and strategy. In addition to exposing the ugly truth behind beautiful rugs, Satyarthi set out to establish a certification system that would incentivize manufacturers to stop exploiting children as well as guide consumer purchases. Thus the RugMark label (now GoodWeave) was born. The first carpets with that certification were exported from India in 1995.
Today, GoodWeave works in the top consumer capitals of the world and in the key rug-producing areas across Asia, expanding most recently to Afghanistan. Their programs in weaving villages near Kabul, Mazar and soon Herat are reaching girls, many of whom resemble Malala. And in the two decades since Satyarthi's jail cell a-ha moment, the organization has gone on to reduce the number of "carpet kids" in the region by two-thirds.
The head of GoodWeave International, Nina Smith upon hearing the news, said: "So many of us were motivated to join this struggle to protect the lives of vulnerable children because of him. This is an incredible moment for Kailash, for GoodWeave, for the children who have been forced to sacrifice their youth and their education for the benefit of business, and for the 130+ carpet importers and retailers who have taken a stand."
GoodWeave is now preparing to finish the work that Satyarthi began and reach the 250,000 children left on looms through their "Stand with Sanju" campaign. It is inspired by the real life story of a Nepalese girl – not unlike Malala – who went from carpet loom to classroom.
As Kailash looks back on his journey, he remains optimistic that the model can be used in other industries from chocolate to mining. "At the time we launched the certification, nobody had heard the phrases, 'corporate responsibility,' or 'corporate accountability.' But we have given voice to many initiatives in the world. And some of the basic ingredients of GoodWeave now are being used as great lessons by others. In the end, we can change the world in this way."
Lending a Hand: How Direct-to-Farmer Finance Providers Reach Smallholders
October 9, 2014 by Sally Farhat KassabThe Initiative for Smallholder Finance just released a new briefing. Here's more, from their announcement:
The vast majority of smallholder farmers are financially underserved. Giving these smallholders access to appropriately structured financial products and services can help bridge the smallholder finance gap and, in turn, combat extreme poverty by supporting more than two billion of the world's poorest people who live in households that depend on agriculture for their livelihood.
A new briefing from the Initiative for Smallholder Finance explores the 150+ finance providers offering finance directly to smallholder farmers. The new research:
- Introduces four distinct business model archetypes that financial providers deploy to reach smallholder farmers
- Highlights common practices and challenges financial providers face as they try to serve smallholders with appropriate financial products
- Identifies ways that successful direct-to-farmer finance models can reach sustainable scale through learning, knowledge sharing and innovation
Camfed Recognized By the OECD For Taking Innovation to Scale
October 8, 2014 by Sally Farhat KassabCongratulations, Camfed! Last night in Paris, Camfed was recognized by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Here's more, from their announcement:
Camfed is being recognized as a model of best practice in taking innovation to scale by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the OECD.
"This is a tribute that we greatly value – to be recognized as having a model that can be successfully scaled," said Lucy Lake, CEO of Camfed. "We are committed to ensuring that vulnerable girls across the globe secure their right to education in view of the huge benefits that this will unlock."
Camfed's programme currently extends across five African countries, 116 districts and 5,000 schools. Last year alone this programme benefitted 2.2 million children, including 105,000 girls receiving bursaries to complete their secondary education. read more
Celebrating a Decade of Impactful Social Innovators at Oxford
October 7, 2014 by Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship10th anniversary of Skoll Scholars at Oxford's Saïd Business School
The Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Saïd Business School is celebrating ten years of the Skoll scholarships, providing financial support for up to five students a year to join the Oxford MBA and pursue entrepreneurial solutions for urgent social and environmental challenges.
Established in 2004, the selection process for the scholarships is challenging and rigorous with the Centre looking for individuals who can both demonstrate a strong track record in a social venture and who wish to improve their knowledge of market-oriented practices to increase the effectiveness of their venture to achieve real world impact.
'We are looking for unique individuals with the single-mindedness and persistence to pursue their social venture goals and the resilience to face failure and rebuild, as do most of the world's most successful entrepreneurs' said Dr Pamela Hartigan, Director of the Skoll Centre. 'We seek those with unfailing determination to explore the environment for opportunities and resources and to take action. We are looking for entrepreneurial leaders with the personal qualities necessary to achieve success: many of our scholars show a selfless willingness to take personal, and sometimes financial, risks to pursue their goals and have an unwaivering vision of the possible.' read more
TEDGlobal 2014 Speakers to Watch
October 1, 2014 by Sally Farhat KassabWe're looking forward to TEDGlobal 2014, in Brazil Oct. 6 to 10. Here are the speakers who are Skoll Awardees or partners:
- Charmian Gooch, anti-corruption activist: Global Witness co-founder Charmian Gooch exposes how a global architecture of corruption is woven into the extraction and exploitation of natural resources.
- Rodrigio Baggio, digital inclusionist: At the Center for Digital Inclusion, Rodrigo Baggio works to narrow the digital divide.
- Michael Green, social progress expert: Michael Green helped create the Social Progress Index to measure what matters.
- Joe Madiath, social entrepreneur: Joe Madiath brings Indian villagers together around water and sanitation projects.
- Mark Plotkin, Amazonian ethnobotanist: As fast as the rainforest is disappearing — the people of the rainforest are disappearing even faster. Mark Plotkin works to preserve generations of knowledge.
Read their bios and see the rest of the speakers: http://conferences.ted.com/TEDGlobal2014/program/guide.php
YouthBuild USA Announces Partnership with Starbucks and Schultz Family Foundation
September 30, 2014 by Sally Farhat KassabYouthBuild USA, which helps low-income youth to rebuild their communities and their lives, has added retail and barista skills training to their program through a new partnership:
YouthBuild USA is pleased to announce an exciting new partnership with Starbucks Coffee Company and the Schultz Family Foundation: the Retail Excellence Training Program (RETP). This national program gives YouthBuild students an opportunity to learn customer service skills – based on the same training Starbucks store employees receive – through classroom and on-the- job experience in retail or café settings. The training is currently available in Gulfport, Mississippi, through CLIMB YouthBuild; in Harlem, New York through the Abyssinian Development Corporation YouthBuild program; and in Starbucks' hometown of Seattle through YouthCare's YouthBuild program.
Over the course of 8 to 10 weeks, each student completes 80 hours of technical retail and barista skills training and 80 hours in a customer-service role. Upon completion the graduates receive four college credits, accredited by the American Council on Education, and a paycheck for their hands-on service in the café. They also receive assistance with their job search, applications, interview preparation, and placement.
The Retail Excellence Training Program is folded into existing YouthBuild programs. This means enrollees in the program, all low-income 16- to 24-year-olds, are also working with their YouthBuild program towards obtaining their GEDs or high school diplomas. They have learned construction skills building affordable housing for homeless and low income people in their communities. They're working with YouthBuild staff who provide the love, respect and high standards that YouthBuild programs are famous for and who guide them toward setting their own personal goals and achieving them.
Learn more: http://news.starbucks.com/news/starbucks-and-schultz-family-foundation-give-young-job-seekers-a-roadmap
This Week: Talks by Charmian Gooch and Paul Farmer in San Francisco; Molly Melching in Seattle
September 29, 2014 by Sally Farhat KassabThree Skoll Awardees are giving public presentations this week, and tickets are still available.
On Oct. 1 at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, Charmian Gooch of Global Witness will discuss Global Witness' vast body of work, and focus on exposing and eliminating anonymous companies. Her talk begins at 7 p.m. and costs $25. Use promo code GLOBAL WITNESS to get 25 percent off.
On Oct. 3 at the Nourse Theater in San Francisco, Dr. Paul Farmer of Partners in Health will give firsthand reports from doctors on the front lines of Ebola. His talk is at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $20.
On Oct. 3 at Town Hall in Seattle, Molly Melching of Tostan will speak about her work in Senegal and how she uses deep listening as a tool. Her talk is at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are free; registration is still required.
Gary White and Matt Damon's Talk at Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting
September 25, 2014 by Sally Farhat KassabThe press has been buzzing about Water.org's plenary at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting (CGI) this week, so we wanted to share some news coverage. Watch the organization's co-founders, Matt Damon and Gary White, on stage above, at 53 minutes after the video begins.
Here's an excerpt of the plenary coverage from LiveScience:
Damon told the audience that every 20 seconds, a child under the age of five dies from a preventable waterborne disease. Water, sanitation and hygiene problems kill more than 3.4 million people each year, and 99 percent of these cases occur in the developing world, according to Water.org.
And the Huffington Post:
Damon, together with fellow Water.org co-founder Gary White, explained how a lack of potable water and sanitation leads to fatal illnesses, but is also just as much of a women's issue, since women and girls are often assaulted while relieving themselves in public. And while the pair agrees that there will never be "enough charity" to solve the water crisis, they remain optimistic about their progress, pointing specifically to the critical role microloans play.
The Boston Globe focused on a fun moment:
Cambridge-bred clean water advocate Matt Damon spoke Tuesday at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. The Water.org cofounder talked about his mission to get clean and safe water to all, and did a pretty solid impression of former President Bill Clinton while onstage.
And don't miss Gary White's recent op-ed in The Guardian, called "We can solve the water sanitation crisis, but we need your help."
Camfed and Room to Read Part of Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Reach 14 Million Girls
September 24, 2014 by Sally Farhat KassabOne of the most exciting announcements at today's Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting was by Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Julia Gillard, who announced a collaboration of more than 30 groups to improve learning and leadership opportunities for young women and girls. Two of these organizations are Skoll Awardees Room to Read and Camfed.
This collective effort, CHARGE – Collaborative for Harnessing Ambition and Resources for Girls' Education – has committed over $600 million dollars to reach 14 million girls over five years. Camfed will spend $100 million to help marginalized girls in sub-Saharan Africa complete secondary school and transition to secure livelihoods. And Room to Read will invest $12 million to serve an additional 15,000 girls in nine countries to ensure that girls transition to secondary school and then from school to the workforce or higher education.
Here's more, from Camfed's announcement:
Camfed today announced our goal to support one million girls through their secondary school education and into successful, secure livelihoods.
"Our goal is to reach marginalized and excluded girls in rural communities in sub Saharan Africa and support them to complete a full cycle of secondary education," said Lucy Lake, CEO of Camfed. "Our commitment to these students doesn't end with graduation. We will work with them and support them to move forward from school into economic independence and positions of leadership. We are excited to sign up for this Commitment," said Lake. "This is an ambitious undertaking that will multiply opportunities for girls and young women in rural areas of Africa."
In addition to Camfed's own announcement, Pearson, in partnership with Camfed, committed to offering Business and Technology Education Council (BTEC) qualifications to 5,000 Camfed Learner Guides in Ghana, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. The 5,000 Learner Guides are young women school graduates who will return to school to teach and guide more than 150,000 girls to improve their attendance, retention and education in secondary school. Through the BTEC, a transferable vocational qualification, Learner Guides will acquire an important, internationally benchmarked qualification that provides a stepping stone into formal higher education and teacher training.
Medic Mobile's New Film: Who Are Community Health Workers?
September 23, 2014 by Sally Farhat Kassab
New Report: Illegal Land Clearing for Commercial Agriculture Responsible for Half of Tropical Deforestation
September 22, 2014 by Sally Farhat KassabExports from Illegal Conversion Worth US$61 Billion and Responsible for 25 Percent of Tropical Deforestation; Brazil's and Indonesia's Illegal Land Clearance Highest in the World
A comprehensive new analysis released earlier this month says that nearly half (49%) of all recent tropical deforestation is the result of illegal clearing for commercial agriculture. The study also finds that around half of this illegal destruction was driven by overseas demand for agricultural commodities including palm oil, beef, soy, and wood products. In addition to devastating impacts on forest-dependent people and biodiversity, the illegal conversion of tropical forests for commercial agriculture is estimated to produce 1.47 gigatonnes of carbon each year—equivalent to 25% of the EU's annual fossil fuel-based emissions.
"We've known that the production of agricultural commodities is a principal driving force behind deforestation, but this is the first report to show the outsize role that illegal activities play in the production of hundreds of food and household products consumed worldwide," said Michael Jenkins, President and CEO of Forest Trends, a Washington-based NGO that published the report. "Increased agricultural production will be necessary for food security and to meet the demand of the emerging global middle class. However, the world must also wake up to the scale of how much of this agricultural production is taking place on land that has been illegally cleared. Urgent action is needed to help countries where these agricultural products are being grown, both for governments to enforce their own laws and regulations, and for businesses aiming to produce commodities legally and sustainably."
According to the study, Consumer Goods and Deforestation: An Analysis of the Extent and Nature of Illegality in Forest Conversion for Agriculture, 90% of the deforestation in Brazil from 2000 to 2012 was illegal, primarily due to the failure to conserve a percentage of natural forests in large-scale cattle and soy plantations, as required by Brazilian law. (Much of this occurred prior to 2004, when the Brazilian government took steps to successfully reduce deforestation.) And in the forests of Indonesia, 80% of deforestation was illegal—mostly for large-scale plantations producing palm oil and timber, 75% of which is exported.
While other countries also experience high levels of illegal deforestation, Brazil and Indonesia produce the highest level of agricultural commodities destined for global markets, many of which wind up in cosmetics or household goods (palm oil), animal feed (soy), and packaging (wood products). Read the rest: http://www.forest-trends.org/illegal-deforestation.php
Roger Martin and Sally Osberg's New Article in Rotman Magazine
September 21, 2014 by Sally Farhat KassabSkoll Foundation President and CEO Sally Osberg and Roger Martin, academic director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management, just published an article in Rotman magazine. The piece, called "Moving the World Forward: The Quest for a New Equilibrium," is drawn from their forthcoming book, A New Equilibrium: Harnessing the Power of Social Entrepreneurship. "By combining elements from government policy and business entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurs are moving the world forward in creative ways," their article begins.
An excerpt:
"Social progress, by which we mean transformation of the prevailing conditions under which most members of a society live and work, is almost always the result of a successful challenge to an existing equilibrium. The path to change, however, doesn't always run smoothly…
…every once in a while, backed by revolutionary rather than normal thinking, the world moves forward in a big leap to a fundamentally new equilibrium. The existing equilibrium is shattered, even if it appeared relatively stable, and even if many powerful people and organizations were invested in it. Over the course of history, such paradigm shifts have typically been driven by two entities: government policy innovation and business entrepreneurial creation.
…Social entrepreneurship is a much newer form of positive equilibrium transformation that occupies and utilizes key features of the two poles in myriad combinations. The ability to draw from the principles and tools of both government policy innovation and business entrepreneurial creation produces the potential for endless powerful combinations.
The most exciting part is that social entrepreneurship makes possible equilibrium shifts that neither of the traditional forms can achieve on their own."
Read the rest of the article: http://hbr.org/product/moving-the-world-forward-the-quest-for-a-new-equilibrium/an/ROT243-PDF-ENG
World's Leading Institutional Investors Managing $24 Trillion Call for Carbon Pricing, Ambitious Global Climate Deal
September 18, 2014 by adminDays before UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convenes the Climate Summit at the United Nations to spur climate action and facilitate a global climate agreement in 2015, nearly 350 global institutional investors representing over $24 trillion in assets have called on government leaders to provide stable, reliable and economically meaningful carbon pricing that helps redirect investment commensurate with the scale of the climate change challenge, as well as develop plans to phase out subsidies for fossil fuels.
"Gaps, weaknesses and delays in climate change and clean energy policies will increase the risks to our investments as a result of the physical impacts of climate change, and will increase the likelihood that more radical policy measures will be required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions," said the statement – the largest of its kind by global investors on climate change. "Stronger political leadership and more ambitious policies are needed in order for us to scale up our investments."
According to the International Energy Agency, the world must invest at least an additional $1 trillion per year – a Clean Trillion – into clean energy by 2050 if we have any hope of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change on our environment, health and the global economy. Yet global investment in clean energy was just $254 billion in 2013.
The statement recognizes the role investors play in financing clean energy, outlines the specific steps they are committing to take, and calls on policymakers to take action that supports, rather than limits, investments in clean energy and climate solutions. It was coordinated by the four investor groups on climate change – Ceres' Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) in the United States, the European Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), the Investors Group on Climate Change (IGCC) in Australia and New Zealand, and the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC) – with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). read more
Verité Study Finds Forced Labor in Malaysian Electronics Industry
September 17, 2014 by Sally Farhat KassabA new Verité study, covered in today's New York Times among many other publications, shows concrete evidence of widespread forced labor among migrant workers in Malaysian electronics. The press release:
Amherst, MA – Verité, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring that people around the world work under safe, fair, and legal conditions, today announced the findings of a first-of-its-kind study on forced labor in the Malaysian electronics industry. The study found that thirty-two percent of foreign migrant workers surveyed, nearly one in three, were working in conditions of forced labor.
Verité interviewed more than 500 male and female workers across all major producing regions, electronics products, and foreign worker nationalities. Malaysian nationals were also surveyed. The results of these extensive interviews indicate that forced labor is present in the Malaysian electronics industry in more than just isolated cases, and that the problem is indeed widespread. This could mean that many electronics products reaching American consumers are produced using forced labor.
"Verité's study is the most comprehensive look at forced labor in the Malaysian electronics sector to date," Dan Viederman, CEO of Verité remarked. "Our report provides a clear sense of the scope of the problem in the industry, as well as the root causes underlying this egregious form of abuse, which center on unlawful and unethical recruitment practices."
The report identified the top factors responsible for making this sector prone to human rights abuses. According to Verité's study, the widespread reliance on third-party agents for the recruitment, management and employment of foreign workers limits their protections and blurs accountability for labor conditions. Other top factors identified by the research as contributors to forced labor include: unlawful passport retention, high and hidden recruitment fees resulting in widespread indebtedness that can trap workers in their jobs, deceptive recruitment practices, highly constrained freedom of movement, poor living conditions, fines and other penalties that prevent workers from being able to resign, and inadequate legal protections.
"The problem of forced labor within the Malaysian electronics industry is complex, but many of the solutions are not," said Viederman. "Governments, companies and civil society alike need to increase transparency into the recruitment process for workers. Third-party employment agents should be regulated by governments and held accountable for their practices by their clients. Workers must not be charged recruitment fees, and must be allowed to hold their own passports. These actions alone will go a long way to ensure that workers are treated fairly within the industry, and that companies avoid the risk of forced labor in their supply chains and business operations."
Click here to read the full report.
Mindy Lubber on Clean Transportation, Clean Energy Investments and Green Bonds
September 16, 2014 by Sally Farhat KassabUnited Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is hosting the Climate Summit to engage leaders and advance climate action and ambition on Sept. 23. Mindy Lubber of Ceres, who will attend, wrote three columns looking ahead. The Summit will serve as a public platform for high-level leaders.
In The Huffington Post, she said clean transportation is driving us toward a low-carbon future:
"Making cars and trucks dramatically more efficient and developing alternatives to petroleum is a sea change. It is an epic transformation along the lines of switching from the horse and buggy to the horseless carriage, or from landlines to smart phones. Entrepreneurs, investors, and corporations are sniffing out opportunities. Bets are being placed. Fortunes will be made. And we need to be doing even more."
In the Christian Science Monitor, she said investments in clean energy pay off:
"Nationally, electric sector investments in energy efficiency have steadily risen over the past five years to $7.2 billion in 2013. They are generating returns of $3 to $4 for every dollar invested. A comparable expenditure for renewable energy investments is harder to find because the data isn't reported, but recent research by Ceres shows that renewable energy sales averaged about 5 percent of total sales for the country's 32 largest power providers."
In The Guardian, she said "green bonds might sound dull but they're a vital weapon against climate change:"
"It's now clearer than ever that green bonds, which provide capital for clean energy projects with a promised return on investment, make good business sense. Investors are buying up green bonds at a blistering pace. More than $20bn in green bonds have been issued in 2014 and the Climate Bond Initiative, an investor-focused nonprofit group, expects the market will hit $40bn by year's end. That's a 20-fold jump from the $2bn of green bonds issued in 2012. It's a green win all around."
Mark Plotkin Featured in Times-Picayune
September 12, 2014 by Sally Farhat KassabThe Times-Picayune of New Orleans just profiled Mark Plotkin of Amazon Conservation Team. The piece talks about how "growing up, Plotkin never imagined he would one day become an ethnobotanist, studying the ways Indians used the plants that grew around them. 'How could I?' I never knew there was such a thing,' he said."
It talks about the defining moment that changed all that, and later led to the founding of the Amazon Conservation Team and all his success. It ends with Mark's humor.
An excerpt:
"In 1996, he and his wife, Liliana Madrigal, cofounded the nonprofit Amazon Conservation Team to protect biological and cultural diversity in the tropical rain forest, and started the program Shamans and Apprentices, which helps medicine men share their priceless knowledge with young members of their tribes. Nearly two decades later, the program is flourishing.
'It's not just working, it's thriving,' he said. 'I'm immensely proud of that.' Plotkin has led a remarkable life. He has degrees from Harvard and Yale, and a doctorate in biological conservation from Tufts University. In 1998, he starred in the IMAX film 'Amazon.' He has won numerous awards, and in 2005, for Smithsonian magazine's 35th anniversary issue, he was picked as one of '35 Who Made a Difference,' along with such luminaries as Bill Gates and Wynton Marsalis…
In recent years, the Amazon Conservation Team has put together a partnership between Google Earth and 33 tribes, mapping their land — 70 million acres of tropical rain forest — in an effort to establish their ownership rights and protect the land from loggers."
Read the rest: http://www.nola.com/homegarden/index.ssf/2014/09/ethnobotanist_mark_plotkin_a_n.html
Support the Partners in Health Ebola Response
September 11, 2014 by Sally Farhat KassabAn important message from Skoll Awardee Partners in Health:
"The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is a defining global health challenge of our time. The virus has killed more than 2,200 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea as of Sept. 11, and more than 4,000 cases have been confirmed. Tens of thousands of people could be infected as the virus spreads. The outbreak has put an enormous strain on already weak health systems, and international organizations and higher-income countries have been slow to respond.
Partners In Health is leading an effort to combat this outbreak, working alongside two outstanding grassroots organizations—Last Mile Health in Liberia and Wellbody Alliance in Sierra Leone. These groups are already working to train health workers, identify sick patients, and deliver quality care. As the epidemic advances, these groups need support to provide comprehensive prevention, care, and treatment. In coalition with Last Mile Health and Wellbody Alliance, PIH is committed to supporting the delivery of comprehensive health services and establishing Ebola Treatment Units (ETUs) in Grand Gedeh, Liberia, and Kono, Sierra Leone, which will work in concert with those organizations' existing efforts.
PIH is actively recruiting clinicians, logisticians, and other health system professionals to support the work of Last Mile Health and Wellbody Alliance. We are seeking a large number of short-term volunteers and longer-term positions to help staff the ETUs, as well as help support the community-based work that is needed. read more
Visayan Forum's Two New Campaigns for Overseas Filipino Workers
September 11, 2014 by Sally Farhat Kassab"Have you ever worked for more than 18 hours a day? Or been forced to eat garbage? This is how Anne lived as a domestic helper in Kuwait. She was also beaten daily and sexually assaulted by her employer. Anne was trapped in modern slavery. The Department of Justice has identified recruitment agencies linked to modern slavery in Kuwait that continue to operate. Thousands of Filipinos, like Anne, could suffer the same fate if these recruitment agencies are not investigated and suspended."
The second calls on the Philippines' social welfare department to deploy social workers to Philippine embassies overseas to aid distressed Filipino workers.
"Social Welfare Officers have been assigned to 8 of the top 11 destination and high-risk countries for Filipinos working abroad. However, Singapore, Taiwan, and Bahrain top the list with nearly 250,000 total overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) but still don't have Social Welfare Officers in place. Secretary Soliman, please commit to requesting the placement of Social Welfare Officers in Singapore, Taiwan, and Bahrain to help make shelters safer for OFWs."
New Teacher Center Profiled in Stanford Social Innovation Review
September 10, 2014 by Sally Farhat KassabEllen Moir and New Teacher Center were just profiled in Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR). The piece details how New Teacher Center works, and their success. An excerpt:
"'We know that the teacher is the single most important component of improving student learning. We also know that good teachers are made, not born,' Moir says…. The New Teacher Center provides structured, long-term support that will better equip beginning teachers to work with students. NTC has expanded to 40 states since its start in 1998. According to NTC data, districts that adopt the NTC model achieve retention rates of 80 percent or more (as against the national average of 56 percent.) 'In most cities,' Moir says, 'we up retention by 20 percent' over a district's previous retention rate."
Read the rest: http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/mentor_for_america