Maldives Controversy Dogs Hill & Knowlton
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Source: Friends of Maldives.
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Social Justice
Secrecy's Side Effects
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Richard Zitrin, a San Francisco-based lawyer who teaches at the University of California, warns that the willingness of lawyers to reach secret out-of-court agreements with drug companies can have dangerous consequences for patients.
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Bush Signs Detainee Bill
The much-debated Military Commissions Act of 2006 is now the law of the land.
PR or School Teachers? Maldives Party Asks
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The Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) has called for the termination of Hill & Knowlton's contract defending the repressive government of the Maldives. The MDP calculated that the PR firm has been paid $800,000 over almost three years.
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Did Sister Ruth Neglect to Reflect on McDonald’s?
I first met Sister Ruth Rosenbaum at the University of Wisconsin’s Living Wage Symposium in 1999.
Publicis PR Affiliate Seeking to Mute Bad PR?
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Last July, labor activist Junya Lek Yimprasert took up the cause of five women workers dismissed by the Thai subsidiary of the global PR firm Publicis Groupe. She described alleged sexual discrimination and intimidation at the firm's Bangkok office to reporter Stephen Frost of CSR Asia (PDF).
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Just Because You're Paranoid, Don't Mean They're Not After You
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The Color TV of Fear
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"Obsessive coverage of urban crime by local television stations, UCLA law professor Jerry Kang argued in the Harvard Law Review ... is one of the engines driving lingering racism in the United States.
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