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Consumers Movement

• Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS)

  Established in 1984, Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS) is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation working on public interest issues. CUTS is one of the very few consumer organisations in the country

  • • Consumers Movement
    • Sustainable Development
    • Economy
    • Trade
    • Development
    • India
    • CUTS

• Chickening out

  THE erstwhile -cold war between, the us and Russia seems to have given way to a war over chickens! If a threatened Russian poultry ban takes effect, yankee chickens may no longer be welcome in

  • 30/03/1996

  • Down To Earth
  • • Poultry
    • Consumers Movement
    • Russia
    • United States Of America (US)

• No child's play, this!

  The Consumer's Association of Penang (CAP) in Malaysia has launched a blitzkrieg to ban Barbie. The doll is being blamed for promoting inappropriate stereotypes among children.

  • 14/02/1996

  • • Children
    • Consumers Movement
    • Malaysia
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  Road to chaos

  The beginning of uncontrolled consumerism is the end of a planned city

  • 14/12/1994

  • • Urbanisation
    • Consumers Movement
    • India
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  JAPAN

  Japanese consumers are a wasteful lot. Trees felled in Asian rainforests are dumped as old furniture after a few years of use by the Japanese. A study conducted by the Sarawak Conservation

  • 30/07/1996

  • Down To Earth
  • • Forests
    • Consumers Movement
    • Japan

• Ban on blood donation

  in the wake of a large number of complaints over the quality of blood supplied by the government and private blood banks for transfusion, a ban will be issued on professional blood donation from

  • 30/10/1997

  • Down To Earth
  • • Health
    • Blood
    • Consumers Movement
    • India