The consumer is more powerful these days, and maybe it's little acts of protest that will force a much-needed re-balancing of the system, and end these insidious acts of exploitation.
As is later revealed, there are chasms within the narrators' tales: acts of exploitation, violence and altruism are omitted as individual perspectives or wilful distortions clash in a fascinating exploration of how we project our emotions, assumptions and needs on to others, especially on the faceless and dispossessed.
The evidence augments past research and suggests that the human mind contains dedicated psychological mechanisms for restoring social relationships following acts of exploitation.
Far from being a humanitarian gesture, international adoption has come to be seen by some as the supreme act of exploitation.
One has to go back to Richard Nixon's deployment of the families of prisoners of war and US soldiers missing in action in Vietnam to find a similar act of exploitation.
A Holocaust survivors' organization described the sale as "a cynical act of exploitation aimed at profiting from the writings of one of the most heinous Nazi criminals".
Panettiere also did fine work portraying a meltdown by Juliette after she has a baby (even if the actor's off-set struggles with postpartum depression made enjoying her scenes feel like an act of exploitation).
"The United Nations condemns, in the strongest terms, all acts of sexual exploitation and abuse committed by peacekeepers or any other UN personnel and will maintain follow-up so that perpetrators of these abhorrent acts are brought to justice".
For all the tragedies––immediate and myriad on the day of the quake — and the looming sense of nuclear dread that persisted, it was remarkable to observe firsthand, and through the Japanese media, the almost complete sense of national coöperation and purpose: little observable looting or undue panic, and almost no acts of political exploitation.
Nearly every day since that story broke, more men in more professions have been accused of, admitted to, or denied shocking acts of aggression, exploitation, harassment, and prejudice toward women in the workplace.
Only a small proportion of acts of violence, exploitation and abuse are reported and investigated, and few perpetrators are held accountable.
