In early 2011 -- almost exactly a year ago -- Syria's citizens began protests against the repression of the Assad regime. While countries throughout the Middle East enjoyed a wave of political reforms -- the "Arab Spring" -- in Syria, citizens faced a bloody crackdown and have seen nothing but...

True or false: corporations should behave as citizens are expected to do.

The current Supreme Court, blithely provoking a growing national call for corporate accountability, is settling in to tackle this question as one of the central and defining issues of its term. The Court's decision in Citizens United,...

This post was co-authored by Bama Athreya, President, GlobalWorks Foundation and Judy Gearhart, Executive Director, International Labor Rights Forum.

School's out for children across the country and we are pulling out our cool cotton T-shirts and shorts. Yesterday on World Day Against Child Labor, we might keep in mind that...

Would you buy that Pillow Pet as a gift for your child if you knew it cost another child her freedom? Would the chocolate sprinkles on your holiday cookies taste as sweet if you knew the cocoa were harvested by child labor?

Shopping ethically in a world where nearly everything...