Further References and Activities
Tranh Li

"transnational corporation..."

http://www.endgame.org/dtc/dtcindex.html

Geographical index of transnational corporations
http://www.corpwatch.org/trac/about/trac.html

Parent organization of Corporate Watch, The Transnational Resource & Action Center counters corporate-led globalization through education and activism

http://nikebiz.com/

Nike business website, includes statements of corporate responsibilities

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/980330/business.taking_a_look_i11.html

Time magazine looks at Nike's labor practices

Prostitution in Thailand is a major industry that profits from both local and international trade

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/japan/6-sec-6-7-8.htm

Owed Justice by Human Rights Watch: a comprehensive, website detailing how women are abused in the sex industry in Asia. Superb source.

http://www.unifem-eseasia.org/Gendiss/Gendiss2.htm

Unifem East and SE Asia factsheet on trafficking of women and children in Bangkok. Excellent.

AIDs

http://www.unaids.org/

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDs. Comprehensive, The latest information on AIDs worldwide and by country.

http://www.aegis.com/

Excellent worldwide source of information on everything related to AID updated daily..

http://www.worldbank.org/aids-econ/

World Bank source on the economic impact of AIDs and AIDs care.

... more women die from TB than from AID's and heart disease combined.

http://www.who.int/health-topics/tb.htm

World Health Organization: Facts, research, and policies about TB worldwide.

http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact104.html

How TB infects people, how it is transmitted, its impact on lives and its links with AIDs. Fact sheet on TB from World Health Organization

http://www.who.int/gtb/publications/globrep00/index.html

World Health Organization Global Tuberculosis Control 2001 Report

http://www.slackinc.com/child/idc/199607/who.htm

Infectious Diseases in Children, infectious diseases in children via globalization.

... poor people like my family can't afford the medicines ...

 http://www.medadvocates.org/GDAI/prospectus.html

Global Drug Access Initiative, a group working to provide low cost medicines for the poor. By drug, by disease, by group disenfranchised. Excellent source.

http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/twr120c.htm

Globalization and equitable access to essential medicines by Third World Network. Excellent source.

http://www.hivnet.ch:8000/topics/treatment-access/viewR?980

UN Secretary General Annan's work with pharmaceutical companies to provide access to essential drugs for the poor.

http://www.aids-bells.org/Analysis2.html

A thoughtful analysis of how groups put pressure on pharmaceutical companies to provide prescription medicines to the world's poor.

Thailand recently had a crisis when its currency -- the baht -- suddenly lost value...

http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/news/pressrelease.nsf/5875b38e6a76b0478525678c00586146/2f159486adf320a5852569210077447f?OpenDocument

World Bank press release explains "Thai Workers And The Crisis, Low-Wage Workers Hit Hardest By Economic Downturn"

http://www.businessweek.com/2001/01_07/b3719011.htm

Business Week's close-up look at what happens to people and businesses caught up in the collapse of the baht in 1997-98..

http://www.worldbank.or.th/social/index.html

Links to numerous in-depth reports discussing the social and economic effects of the currency crisis in Thailand

http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/asian_economic_crises/newsid_45000/45477.stm

BBC article explains the devaluation of the baht as the beginning of the crisis.

http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/offrep/eap/invents.htm

Key events leading to the Indonesian currency crisis

... the IMF forced the government to make changes, ... our government cut its health care budget and free health care services.

http://www.imf.org/external/country/THA/index.htm

International Monetary fund reports on Thailand debt and currency problems.

http://www.mof.go.th/ter1999/Thai_E_R.htm

January 1999 Progress Report from the Ministry of Finance submitted to the IMF regarding economic reforms.

http://www.mahidol.ac.th/Thailand/governm-politic/politics.html#Major

Thailand's government source. Comprehensive

... my children have had repeated problems with diarrhea.

http://www.rehydrate.org/

Comprehensive information on causes, treatments, and consequences of diarrhea

http://www.rehydrate.org/links/

US. Centers for Disease Control links to worldwide diarrhea information

http://www.unicef.org/sowc98/

1998 Unicef  State of the World's Children focusing upon nutrition problems.

... global competition ...

http://www.oecd.org/eco/surv/esu.htm

In depth economic survey of Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries.

So they won't raise our pay, and they punish us if the clothes have defects.

http://www.cicr.net/

Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility, reviews transnational willingness to improve labor practices. Excellent.

 

http://nikebiz.com/community/pressgca.shtml

Nike site See Global Compact Kicks Off Today, Nike joins worldwide effort to end sweatshops.. NY Times source.

http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/sweatshops/

Comprehensive worldwide information on industries, corporations, and the exploitation of workers. Excellent.

http://nikebiz.com/labor/prlabor.shtml

AP news story about Nike's five factories in Vietnam.