Putting people first, by making human rights concepts pertaining to economic, social, cultural and environmental rights part of general understanding and everyday discourse on development, will strengthen efforts to achieve a world where people live free from hunger or malnutrition, in dignity, leaving no one behind. In this third decade of the twenty-first century, as we head towards the 2030 …
Wal-Mart seems to be taking over the world! Or at least that part of the world that controls retailing in 21st-century America. With its sales over $256 billion in fiscal 2004, Wal-Mart is within striking distance of dominating a 10 percent share of the total $2.9 trillion U.S. retail market, excluding motor vehicles and parts. When it reaches this pinnacle, and I suspect it will unless the gov…