jbet777/ethics

From the page: "Congolese children are staying up to 72 hours in narrow mine tunnels. The minerals the children excavate from the mines are bought by the mobile phone industry, and used in the production of our phones..

Support the campaign to make the mobile phone industry keep track of their supply chain and stop supporting child labour and financing the civil wars in Congo."

F.D.A. Admits Error in Approving Knee Device
By GARDINER HARRIS
Published: September 24, 2009

From the page: "The Food and Drug Administration admitted Thursday that it mistakenly approved a patch for injured knees last year after being pressured by members of Congress and the manufacturer.

The agency promised to re-evaluate the approval.

Internal documents demonstrate that agency's scientific reviewers repeatedly determined that the device, known as Menaflex and manufactured by ReGen Biologics Inc., was unsafe because the device often failed, forcing patients to get another operation.

But after receiving inquiries from four New Jersey legislators -- Senators Robert Menendez and Frank R. Lautenberg and Representatives Frank Pallone Jr. and Steven R. Rothman -- agency managers overruled the scientists and approved the device for sale in December."

What Can Stop the Gay-Bashing in the Military?
Nathaniel Frank
Posted: September 22, 2009 04:43 PM

From the page: "Petty Officer Third Class Joseph Rocha, a sailor trained to work with military dogs in the Navy's anti-terrorism, force protection, and explosive detection operations, was brutalized for more than two years at his base in Bahrain after his refusal to hire a prostitute raised suspicions that he was gay. The abuse included hog-tying Rocha to a chair and pushing him, bound, into a dog kennel full of feces, as well as humiliating him by repeatedly forcing him to simulate oral sex with another man while being videotaped."

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""Don't ask, don't tell" singles out gay people as an "unacceptable risk" to the military. It is especially insidious because it makes gay people eligible to serve while simultaneously calling them a threat. It says to heterosexuals, "Gays are serving with you but they are a danger to your mission." It's no wonder many are used as a punching bag."