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The National
Resources Defense Council comments on the mean streets of
San Francisco and New York City - the supreme torture test
for any vehicle, let alone a new addition to those cities'
taxi fleets in February 2005 and last November, respectively.
So there was good reason for concern among drivers, cab owners
and taxi commissions when the first mini-fleets of Escape
Hybrid taxis hit the road.
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New York City Equipped Taxis
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EcoLogic
Finance, a nonprofit bank, announced today that Fast Company
magazine and Monitor Group selected it as one of two "rising
stars" in their 2006 Social Capitalist Award Competition.
The Social Capitalist Award honors non-profit organizations
that develop innovative entrepreneurial approaches to creating
systemic social change.
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Investment
Officer and native of Colombia, Vanessa Gabela.
She sits with Arhuaco coffee farmers living in the
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range,
a UNESCO biosphere reserve in northeastern Colombia.
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With support
from The Overbrook Foundation, Margaret Sanger Center International
(MSCI) is building the capacity of local organizations in
South Africa to create awareness of the link between the HIV
epidemic and human rights violations such as gender-based
violence.
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MSCI staff collaborates with local groups to design sexuality
education
curricula, training manuals, and a broad array of appealing,
accessible communications materials for youth and adults.
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Human Rights
Watch investigation sparks labor reform. UAE has announced
that it will legalize unions and collective bargaining to
improve labor standards for migrant workers. The announcement
of this pending legislation, expected to be in place at the
end of the year, immediately followed a Human Right Watch
investigation and press release. This news from HRW's publication
Impact May 2006.
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Migrant
Workers In Dubal
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