Can someone help me out with human rights violations?

[redsoxliberal]

Specifically with regard to India, and hopefully pertaining to Motorola.
This is related to my history final paper, and I'm having difficulty finding information on this specifically.

TaIA

[redsoxliberal]

1. kick... anyone?

[mzteris]

2. Can you be more specific?

I'm coming up empty and I've been looking for a while. I found one reference that there were some (on a map), but nothing else.

A time frame, an incident, something else to go on?

[redsoxliberal]

3. well I need basically anything that Motorola have done as far

as human rights violations... and then of course I know about India-Pakistan human rights issues, but independent of that I would need violations that are common/prevelent in India recently, preferably with regard to globalization. This isn't due until Thursday so I have plenty of time... but I'm coming up empty on human rights.

[mzteris]

4. so you weren't

looking for Motorola human rights violations IN India. hmmmmmm.... There seems to be a good bit about Motorola and China currently....

That's still a pretty broad topic you've got there, maybe you should narrow it down a bit? Is there something "specific" you're looking for - or are you fishing for something you can make a "specific"?

[redsoxliberal]

5. well see that's the problem...

this paper CANNOT be longer than 5 pages as it is part of a much broader project... and only a small part of it, perhaps a paragraph, is on human rights. If there have been no glaring human rights violations, and I have not found any, I can always praise their work... but I'm just unsure if I'm missing anything glaringly obvious that they have done (in India.) Also, colour me doubtful that a red company like motorola would be so innocent with regard to human rights in India.

Thanks for your help by the way.

[mzteris]

6. mind if I ask

you to tell me exactly what your paper is supposed to be about? What class is this for? (I think you may have said, but I forget at the moment.) For instance, give me the wording of the assignment .....
I enjoy research so I really don't mind.

Also, I was in school not that long ago myself (graduated 2002) so I know what you're going through. :)

[redsoxliberal]

7. the effects of globalisation in India... specifically with regard to

motorola... whether globalisation has been good or bad for it. Paper is for history.

Thanks.

[mzteris]

8. History?

of what? India?

so do you need other stuff on globalisation or are you just looking for A) motorola; and/or B) negatives of globalisation?

Here are the two refs to HRV/Motorola & India - but can find nothing specific:

http://www.humanrightsrisk.com/csr/csrwebassist.nsf/content/b1f2g3.html#2

and

India ::

Torture, Extra-Judicial Killings, Harassment of Human Rights Defenders, Bonded Labour, Bonded Child Labour, Denial of Women's Rights, Arbitrary Arrest and Detention ::

BG, British Petroleum, Chevron Texaco, Shell, TotalFinaElf, Allied Domecq, Cadbury Schweppes, Diageo, Nestlé, Pepsico, Procter & Gamble, South African Breweries, Coca Cola, Unilever, Enron, Powergen, Ford, GKN, Invensys, Rolls-Royce, Smiths Group, Amersham, Astra Zeneca, DuPont, GlaxoSmithKline, ICI, British Telecommunications, Johnson & Johnson, Cable & Wireless, Dell, Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Marconi, Motorola, Nokia, Spirent, Vodafone

http://www.krysstal.com/democracy/display_acts.php?article=2002_companies

Anyways.....

I have no idea if this is remotely what you're looking for - it's kind of an odd twist:

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NAVY/Articles/Article05.html

or this:

http://www.slowpacefastchange.com/pdf/ImitationtoInnovation.pdf

Then, Motorola is establishing r&d facilities in India. No doubt, its primary motivation is lower costs and access to skilled engineering talent. That said, the opportunity to tap the mobile Indian consumer’s mind for the next generation of disruptive handsets is surely a factor behind its interest; Motorola lost in an earlier round of play for the handset market to Nokia partly because of the latter’s better insight into international mobile user behaviour.

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Nothing really about Motorola but an interesting quote on globalisation in India:

"Cynics will still have their doubts. The rest of the world will go the Indian way. But, what about India? Would globalisation not destroy India? Would we not lose our identity? Let me re-emphasise that Indian civilization has accommodated new elements from outside over the entire course of its history. Indian society has shown a great capacity to accommodate diverse and contradictory elements without losing its identity. Therefore, the fears about the impact of globalisation in terms of losing our identity are unwarranted. Our challenge today is to maintain this traditional record for diversity, while finding more room for quality and individual freedom.

For India, which is an ancient civilization, one century can only be a chapter in its history. I do believe that in the chapter on the 21st century, India is going to be a crucial chapter. It will set the mood and tone for our future in the coming millennium. I am sure this chapter will be a golden chapter.
http://www.diplomatist.com/dipo_oct/spanish.htm

[mzteris]

9. interesting comment

Welcome to Silicon Plateau
In Bangalore, the people pray for rain during the long, hard droughts. No need nowadays, though: the southern Indian city, high on the Mysore Plateau, is awash. With cash, anyway. Last year it soaked up almost $1 billion in new investments, and the flood shows no signs of abating. The "Garden City" is the Big Bangalore behind India's high-tech boom. Earlier this week, General Electric bragged that its revenue from software outsourcing in India would jump 43% to $400 million this year, adding that it has plowed $600 million into its Bangalore-based research and development facility. The same day, Sun Micro-systems, giddy with the news that revenue from its Indian operations surged 184% in the second half of 2000, announced that it had chosen Bangalore as the site for its first Indian tech support center. In the next three years, Bangalore expects investments of $200 million from Cisco and $100 million each from IBM and AOL Time Warner. Motorola, Texas Instruments and Chinese telco Huwei also are pouring money into development centers. Next week, the city of 6 million hosts the Asia Technology Conference.
And if that seems a little dry, bear in mind that Bangalore boasts more pubs and bars than any other city in India.
http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/nations/0,8782,101795,00.html

[mzteris]

10. toxins

this is about China, but the same conditions must apply - I'm still noodling around looking to see if there is anything specific to India.

Computer giant HP mute over toxin use
China Daily 24 May 2005
An investigation by conservation group Greenpeace has found computers made by IT giant Hewlett Packard (HP) and sold in Europe as well as in China contain dangerous levels of deadly toxins...in a reply e-mail to Greenpeace...HP said: "...HP has a strong history of removing this material (TBBPA) from our products..." ...Some companies have already made commitments to phase out the chemical's use ...However, some others -- including HP, Apple, Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, IBM, LG, Motorola, Panasonic, and Toshiba -- have yet to make similar commitments.
Pulling the plug on dirty electronics
Greenpeace 23 May 2005
Related topics ...

http://www.business-humanrights.org/Categories/Individualcompanies/M/Motorola

[mzteris]

11. US-India relations

Janak Patel Aug 9 1999, 3:00 am show options
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Date: 1999/08/09
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From the Record of 106th U.S. Congress - August 2, 1999.
This is an abbreviated transcript. For full transcript please visit:
http://www.congress.gov/
and follow the links "most recent record" and then "August 2 house"
and then "FOREIGN OPERATIONS, EXPORT FINANCING, AND RELATED PROGRAMS
APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2000 (House of Representatives - August 02, 1999)" and then search for Mr. Burton.


AMENDMENT OFFERED BY MR. BURTON

"Of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available in this Act in title II under the heading `development assistance', not more than $33,500,000 may be made available to the Government of India."


Mr. BURTON of Indiana:
Mr. Chairman, our foreign policy in our country has been concerned about human rights violations around the world for a long time. However, Mr. Chairman, we have been concerned about human rights around the world on a very selective basis in this country.
. . .

Amnesty International, another human rights group says, `Torture, including rape and ill-treatment continue to be endemic throughout the country.' This is in their annual report, 1999. `Disappearances continue to be reported during the year, predominantly in Punjab and Kashmir,' 1999. `Hundreds of extrajudicial killings and executions were reported in many states, including Kashmir and Punjab,' 1999, this year.

I talk about this year after year after year. My colleagues who defend India's government policies keep coming down saying, `Oh, well, it is a big country, the second biggest in the world. We have to keep those economic doors open. We have got to make sure that we do business with them.'

Well, okay, let us do business with them, but let us at least send them a signal, send a little-bitty signal to them that these kinds of atrocities cannot be tolerated, should not be tolerated. $11 million cut from our foreign aid to India is a drop in the bucket. They are getting foreign aid from all over the world. So if we cut them by a mere $11 million, one-fourth of the developmental aid we are going to give them, to send a little signal that they should stop these human rights abuses, is that wrong? I think not.

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Here's the "tie-in" - the responses against his proposed amendment that specifically cites..........

* The U.S. is India's largest trading partner and largest investor. U.S. direct investment has grown from $500 million per year in 1991 to $12 billion in 1998. Despite the collapse of various economies in
Southeast Asia over the last two years, the Indian economy continued
to grow at a rate of 6% in 1998. In the first half of 1999, new foreign investment in India totaled $600 million.

* Many large American companies have invested in India and opened plants and offices there. More than 100 of the U.S. Fortune 500 have invested in India. Among those companies are General Electric, Boeing, AT&T, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Ford Motor Company, Microsoft, IBM, Coca Cola, Pepsico, Eli Lilly, Merrill Lynch, McDonnell Douglas, US West, Bell Atlantic, Sprint, Raytheon, Motorola, Amoco, Hughes, Mobil, and Enron.

[redsoxliberal]

12. thank you so much for everything! These are exactly the types of things

I was looking for.

Now I can actually continue writing the paper! :D

Thanks and have a great remainder of the night!