International reports indicate that more than 200 million children in the world are forced to work. Many of them are forced and exploited to produce low cost products, which reach astronomical prices in European and US markets. . Ramón Alabau . In Mali, they hand harvest cotton, on the streets […]
Tag: health
Like the Queen
Last week, I had what the Queen has – no, not millions in the bank – but, gastroenteritis, or norovirus. I had gone away to a conference with two of the students from the college where I teach. On the second day, I began to feel a little queasy. […]
What future now for Venezuela?
After being diagnosed with a kind of pelvic cancer in June 2011 and going through several surgeries and rounds of chemotherapy, the Venezuelan president of 14 years succumbed to his illness on Tuesday 5th March, leaving his country and the rest of the world in a state of uncertainty. […]
The danger of natural gas
The presentation of the documentary Gasland by Josh Fox on March the 8th will take place within the framework of the celebration of Climate week 2013. Hydraulic fracturing is a technique used for the extraction of gas that uses toxic methods that seriously pollute the environment and are a risk […]
The Earth’s resources
Every third Tuesday of the month, Christopher Hedley and Nicole Freris teach a group about the benefits of plants to humans. For thousands of years humanity has depended on nature’s resources for its sustenance, wellbeing and development. In terms of health, traditional medicine was for centuries the only way to […]