Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Interesting web site

Just read a positive review of this website in the College and Research Libraries News (yes, another one of those boring journals we continuously read for current happenings in the library world.  Boring to those outside of the library).  "Business and Human Rights Resource Centre"  http://www.business-humanrights.org/Home can be used for many disciplines; business, politics, sociology, and health for starters.  This site, updated hourly, reports about the positive and negative impacts that businesses around the world have on human rights.  I did a search for Keystone and was disappointed that only 2 articles came up about the current debate over that pipeline and both backed the environmentalist attitude toward it.   Then I did a search for Coca-cola and was pleased at the number of hits there.  The first article told of how the Century bottling company in Uganda had their employees tested for HIV and then those that were positive received treatment.   A good thing as Martha would say.  It was the hope of the reviewer, Maureen James, University of Arkansas-Little Rock, that "this site may also motivate companies to be accountable in their dealings with humans and the environment."

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