domingo, 24 de octubre de 2010

The corporation

This film showed a very dark side about corporations and their real intentions. Sometimes without any principle of ethics, the corporations pursuit economic goals without caring the most important element which is the consumer.
1. Should corporations be entitled to the same legal rights as individuals? Where the line should be drawn?
According to this film some corporations have interests that are not based in the development and the cooperation between people. Violating human rights and humiliating a specific geographic zone with its population. The interests are pointed to fulfill an economic interest, trying to get a large profit specially lowering the costs at the maximum level. Without caring a human being paying them low wages and making them perform hazardous and inhibited works. They shouldn’t be entitled to the same legal rights as individuals because the greed is involve in every action and strategy. They must be monitored by entities that can punish an inappropriate behavior.
2. How can we ensure corporations are held accountable for their actions?
There organizations that protect the rights of the people and also the wealth of the environment, but to ensure such actions is a very complicated task because there is an explicit objective that is covered by the ambition and make the corporations act in a selfish way in order to achieve those objectives. Disrespecting not only the population but the environment, fact that would affect all of us.
3. Should individuals bear any responsibility for the actions of a corporation? If so, to what degree?
Of course individuals have to bear the responsibility because each person contributes to an objective and all together work to achieve a goal. Each individual is implied especially the high positions or the people that has more decision power.
4. What are the benefits of the corporate form? Could an alternative model offer these as well?
There are some corporations that are making a lot of benefits to their consumers without exploiting and damaging the environment in the process of fabrication. This model is effective because it join many people to pursuit a common goal making the corporation very strong at the time of achieve the expectations.

sábado, 9 de octubre de 2010

WOMEN MIGRANT WORKERS

Migration is a social, economic, politic and cultural phenomenon. This is a decision made voluntarily by a person or a group of persons looking for better possibilities, for a better quality of life, escaping of poverty, social repression, discrimination, etc. Migration is considered one of the defining global issues of the early twenty-first century, as more and more people are on the move today than at any other point in human history. There are now about 192 million people living outside their place of birth, which is about three per cent of the world's population.
Women are a more vulnerable population, they migrate with their families and they need desperately a job. Employees that need persons in the manufacturing process take advantage of immigrants and make them work more hours for less money. This is what happens in Sri Lanka where immigrant women work many hours for little pay. Gender norms, lack of participation of women in politics and the division of labor are some aspects that bring as consequence the poor standards of work for women. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) through its gender mainstreaming policy is committed to ensuring that the particular needs of all migrant women are identified, taken into consideration and addressed by IOM projects and services.
IOM actively contributes to protecting women migrant workers from violence by implementing a range of activities in the following areas:
· Promotion of legal and safe migration for women migrant workers
· Promotion of policies that regulate the recruitment and deployment of women migrant workers
· Promotion and protection of women migrant workers’ human rights
· Counter-trafficking activities including capacity-building and direct assistance to victims
· Research and data collection on women and international labor migration
· Promotion of gender-sensitive international migration policies
· Fostering interstate dialogue and enhancing bilateral, regional, interregional and international cooperation.



Taken from:
(Gamburd R, Michele, Advocating Sri Lanka migrants workers, Critical Asian Studies, 41: 1 (2009), o61-088)
http://www.gemmaproject.eu/publicdocs/prevent_violence_against_wmw_2009.pdf
http://www.iom.int/jahia/Jahia/about-migration/lang/en


Image taken from:
http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/womenssm/womens03.jpg