Tuesday, June 24, 2008 |
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In Fighting the Banana Wars and Other Fairtrade Battles, Executive Director of the Fairtrade Foundation in the UK Harriet Lamb relives the dramatic campaigns and successes that have brought Fairtrade to this point, outlines the hurdles still to be overcome and shows what we can all do to help achieve global Fairtrade. Meet Jorge Ramirez, [...]
Sunday, June 8, 2008 |
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A letter to The Hants Journal: We the Grade 6 students of Brooklyn District School would like to propose a boycott against a number of international companies that produce chocolate. Those companies have been buying cocoa beans from farmers who produce their cocoa by child slave labour. They also have been giving the farmers an [...]
Sunday, June 8, 2008 |
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The BBC reports: Wales has been declared the world’s first fair trade nation by campaigners, for the progress it has made increasing the availability of such goods. A number of targets were set in 2006 by the Wales Fair Trade Forum (WFTF) in consultation with independent experts to reach the fair trade nation goal. These [...]