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Cuckoo for cocoa: Valentine’s chocolate in the age of unfair trade

Posted in activism, africa, americas, awareness, children, consumption, corporate responsibility, fair trade, food, labor, production chains, united states on February 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

(image by the International Labor Rights Forum)
The absurdity of the fact that many of us in the first world show our love for one another with products produced by the blood, sweat, and tears of others ought to give all of us pause.  Valentine’s Day offers a unique opportunity to probe into the reality of [...]

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Sweet Dreams: The battle for the chocolate trade

Posted in africa, awareness, children, corporate responsibility, cote d'ivoire, families, food, global economics, labor, policy, prevention, production chains, video on October 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Democracy Now! interviewed Free the Slaves founder Kevin Bales, a lifelong abolitionist and author of several pivotal works in the corpus of today’s anti-slavery literature, including Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, and the recent The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America. He defined slavery for interviewer Amy Goodman as,
“One [...]

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Rare gems, cheap lives: Tanzanite’s disposable child miners

Posted in africa, children, consumption, corporate responsibility, families, global economics, labor, production chains, tanzania, video on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

“I’m looking at a piece right now, and it’s flashing red.  It is very exotic,”
London jewelry designer Stephen Webster told Time’s Sarah Larenaudie in 2007.  “In top-end jewelry now, the client is way over branded luxury goods.  They are looking for limited availability or one of a kind.”
But when it comes to mining Tanzanite, the [...]

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Light up: Malawi’s child laborers poisoned by export tobacco fields

Posted in africa, children, consumption, corporate responsibility, fair trade, global economics, labor, malawi, production chains on September 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Multinational tobacco giants have been long-vilified for marketing cancer-causing cigarettes for consumption by children in Europe and the United States, and increasingly in the developing world. But even as public outrage has slightly softened the aggressive marketing agendas in the West (or at least rendered them less overt), less attention has been paid to the [...]

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