If eurocrats & professors struggle to find EU files then doesn’t that say something about their accessibility? #FOI http://bit.ly/1J3hS4D 

| Transparency International EU Office

Blog on the difficulty of accessing EU documents @PamBQ @aidanosullivan @ALTEREU @corporateeurope @anticorruption http://transparencyinternational.eu/2015/08/naviga …

My new book: Trade in the Service of Sustainable Development (Oxford: Hart Publ., 2015) http://www.hartpub.co.uk/books/details.asp?isbn=9781782257158 …

 Bretton Woods Proj. ‏@brettonwoodspr 

In the Bretton Woods era, trade liberalization, the improvement of labour rights and working conditions, and the strengthening of environmental policies, were seen as mutually supportive. But is this always true? Can we continue to pretend to protect the rights of workers and to improve environmental protection, particularly through climate change mitigation strategies, within an agenda focused on trade liberalization? Is it credible to pursue trade policies that aim to expand the volumes of trade, without linking such policies to labour and environmental standards, seen as ’non-trade‘ concerns? This book asks these questions, offering a detailed analysis of whether linkage is desirable and legally acceptable under the disciplines of the World Trade Organization (WTO). It concludes that trade can work for sustainable development, but only if we see it as a means for social and environmental progress, including climate change mitigation, and if we avoid fetichizing it as an end to be pursued for its own sake..

 Bretton Woods Proj. ‏@brettonwoodspr 

News Lens: China stuns financial markets by devaluing yuan for second day running http://bit.ly/1hx8lbx 

„Optimism and idealism are breaking through. This generation is eager to challenge barriers.“ #InternationalYouthDay http://bit.ly/1MjAZZ8 

Transparency Int’l ‏@anticorruption  40m40 minutes ago

Happy #InternationalYouthDay! Here’s 5 things we learned about how corruption affects young people in Asia Pacific: http://bit.ly/1MjAZZ8 

#EatThinkVote Great campaign launched by Food Secure Canada to get people thinking about a national food policy http://campaign.foodsecurecanada.org

‚Happy‘ chickens, but don’t worry about the trafficked migrants working on UK egg farms? I have no words… http://gu.com/p/4bcyn/stw 

 

Lithuanian migrants trafficked to UK egg farms sue ‚worst gangmaster ever‘
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Six workers bringing legal action against Kent-based DJ Houghton describe working as chicken catchers in inhuman and degrading conditions
THEGUARDIAN.COM|BY FELICITY LAWRENCE

We’ve called for a comprehensive response to the #Calais situation. See why it’s so needed: http://trib.al/NeuULzM 

Yesterday as 2000 queued to register in ‪#‎Kos‬ the situation escalated & police dispersed them with fire extinguishers pic.twitter.com/naVqCJV9am

#EU’s collective shame! Thousand of #refugees mostly from #Syria #Afghanistan held in stadium http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/12/thousand-refugees-locked-in-stadium-overnight-kos?CMP=share_btn_tw …

Lotte Leicht ‏@LotteLeicht1

Wake up #EU! Several #refugees held at Kos stadium suffered heatstroke. Police used sound bomb.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/12/thousand-refugees-locked-in-stadium-overnight-kos?CMP=share_btn_tw … pic.twitter.com/PrOzZqFmlE

 

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 ZeroHunger Challenge ‏@ZeroHunger

Eskalation auf #Kos: Aufnahmebedingungen für #Flüchtlinge umgehend verbessern! Auch Deutschland + EU in der Pflicht #Mittelmeer

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Total of 90 prefabs to be placed in Votanikos site; will be able to accommodate up to 630 #refugees #pedion_areos

#ZeroHunger = a world where everyone realizes their right to adequate food. What does that mean?http://www.fao.org/righttofood/right-to-food-home/en/#.VcjGxnMkBQE.twitter … #HumanRights

Campaign to cut supermarket food waste reaches European parliament http://bit.ly/1IWPnr7 

The global food system is so unjust… http://9gag.com/gag/ajn9xeG?ref=t …

The research proposal is the bane of my PhD – anyone else feel this way? Any tips? #phdchat #phdlife #phdstudent