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Over 50,000 demand 'dignity' in garment industry where majority-female workforce faces dangerous conditions and some of lowest wages in world

Most comprehensive climate change review to date warns of risks to children, with Unicef arguing that children have been largely left out of the debate so far.

United in Call for End to Austerity, Healthcare Cuts, and for a Robin Hood Tax

The Left party (Die Linke) received nine percent in the poll conducted by INSA and published by German newspaper Bild on Thursday, just days head of general elections.

In short, it is just too profitable to give up.

Industry groups vow to expose union-backed worker centers. House Republicans are beginning to scrutinize the worker centers as well.

Death from Above, tar sands, political class, super rich, Occupy, Troy Davis

Religious conservatives in Texas are fighting to infuse textbooks with their agenda—and it won't just affect public school students in the Lone Star State.

"The church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules," Francis says. "Ministers of the church must be ministers of mercy above all." In general, he seems to suggest he wants the church to come off as less judgmental and more pastoral, though without becoming morally "lax."

It's not unusual for politicians to disagree; one would hope that journalism might intervene on the side of the facts.