Check out this article on corporate responsibility in terms of not being complicit in human rights violations. The Global Compact sounds very cool. I have to check if Apple is a member. Also, note the part on Kyrgyzstan towards the end.
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International Observers
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Lipstick On A War Criminal – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan . The entire point of the Geneva Conventions and the Reagan-signed UN Convention and domestic law and centuries of precedent was never to get anywhere close to torture. The broadness of the ban was designed to stop anyone in government from doing anything like what Yoo proposed and Cheney implemented.