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Bangladesh minimum wage doubled, but it's not enough, say campaigners

Nike bows to student pressure on severance pay

Dominican Republic factory pays its workers three times the legal minimum

Primark and others found paying low wages in Asia

Woodland caribou face extinction in Alberta

Haitian peasants say no to gift of seeds

Greenpeace protests score another success

Campaign for a UK ban followed by a Europe-wide ban

Consumers kept in dark about food from animals fed on GM feed

The Ethical Consumer team talk about the latest Outdoor Gear buyers' guide

See who's best for fleeces, waterproof coats, walking boots, rucksacks, tents and sleeping bags

Co-operatives across the UK are doing green living work with their members and supporters.

Cross-party group of MPs call for investment funds to examine environmental risks

Object to plans for palm oil burning power station

Help save threatened sharks and turtles

Greenpeace campaign moves on to HSBC

Financial Times’ late call thwarts Amnesty’s campaign

World Bank moratorium on palm oil funding to be reviewed

Drive a little less for a week

Richard Briers thanks Cameron and Clegg

On 18 May, it’s Shell’s AGM. Help Amnesty shame Shell.

Donate funds for a newspaper ad

Make 1 in 4 nappy changes a reusable

Significant numbers of investors supported the  tar sands resolution at BP's AGM today

Survival International urges the sports company to disinvest

BP’s AGM on 15th April will spotlight its controversial plans for Canadian tar sands projects.

Slash your dogs carbon pawprint by cutting out meat

Coca-Cola takes majority stake in British smoothie maker

New short film on the destructive nature of the tar sands and what you can do.

Greenpeace spoof ad is not for the squeamish...

How fair trade is helping the worlds poorest

EC in London for UK Aware

Daily-updated buyers' guide now available to subscribers

Kit Kat linked to rainforest destruction and orang-utan extinction

One night only premiere

Sugar cane production is linked to deforestation and slave labour

Video nasty highlights the cruelty of hunting with hounds...

Incentives for consumers to buy greener cars

Campaign targets ASDA for failing to sell Fairtrade uniforms

BP and Shell are facing a shareholder revolt over involvement in Canadian tar sands projects.

Target of 85,000 swaps in the next two weeks

Register your objection.

Joseph Rowntree Trust sells shares in Vedanta mining company

No more palm oil for candles and tealights

Have your say on some knotty issues...

Ecuador’s President threatens to allow exploitation

Chevron refuses to clean up the Amazon's Chernobyl

Set back for ethical consumers imminent

Our research forum seeks users' experiences

New free buyers' guides just uploaded

Giant US pension investment group blacklists companies in protest at business links to the Sudanese government.

Let us know what you think about nappies

New ideas for challenging the festival of consumption

Proposals to undermine the rights of parents come under fire

Probe International launch carbon credits database

UN carbon credits for destructive palm oil plantations

Nestle's Kit Kats have gone Fairtrade

Awards for dubious green claims

Which is the worst corporate lobby group? You decide who has done most to disrupt climate talks in Copenhagen!

Practical solutions to challenge the Copenhagen consensus?

Instant access to information to help address the world's problems when you shop.

Friends of the Earth nominate Perenco for 'Pinocchio Prize 2009'.

Digital UK should tell the public to save the planet, and cash, and not throw out TVs.

Digital TVs, Current and Savings Accounts now available on this site

Help fight trafficked labour through the new Buy Responsibly campaign

The legal challenge against tar sands developments within the ancestral lands of the Beaver Lake Cree Nation

Help spread the word about the climate change march on Dec 5th.

Check out our reports to help you save energy

Branches attacked after launch of campaign supporting saboteurs

Carbon offsets distract tourists from the need to reduce their emissions

National demonstration against a Manchester factory

Campaign for a minimum living wage for all Asian garment producing countries

Companies commit to zero deforestation

Share issue from our Savings Account best buy company

Protest against BP's sugar cane ethanol plans

 Unions call on ethical fund to assess Nestle's alleged “systemic pattern of human rights abuses”

A new report lists goods commonly produced by child or forced labour - looking at 122 products in 58 countries.

The proposed takeover of Cadbury’s by Kraft could be a setback for human rights campaigners

Despite being banned in 62 countries, Endosulfan's continued production and use still poisons people and environments

8 new free-to-view buyers' guides have just been added to this site including supermarkets

Project Nesting offers new parents a unique opportunity to test the air quality in their baby's room.

The three latest buyers guides now available including petrol

British companies are killing us, say indigenous campaigners.

Chocolate maker to stop using palm oil in its New Zealand chocolates after public outcry.

Public money funding climate chaos - take action

Timberland, Adidas and Clarks sign up to Greenpeace Amazon commitment

Apple's Ethiscore has fallen after the Times Online reported that Apple attempted to silence a father and daughter after the child’s iPod exploded.

A unique world history - without words, published by FoE International and New Internationalist magazine.

BUAV condemns the biggest year on year increase since 1987 in government annual animal testing numbers

Why Ethical Consumer accepted a 'fish 4 ever' advert

Now ask the other brands to clean up their act.

Ethical consumption or green consumerism?

The Real Green Retail Group reveals what the economic downtown has meant to them, and their hopes for the future.

Climate change protesters on trial over stopping a train carrying coal to Drax power station found guilty.

Campaign groups yesterday launched a legal action over RBS investments in climate chaos, using tax payers' money.

Ethical Consumer launches boycott campaign

Fairtrade Foundation launches new label for beauty products

... but supermarkets are not putting their money where their mouth is over sustainable palm oil

UK banks, companies and pension funds are investors in company planning to bulldoze Indian sacred mountain

Take action: Ask the President to veto the new law.

See how 60 models of car compare on ethics and CO2 emissions

The winners of the awards for 2009

Good Energy makes Sunday Times Green List while rival Ecotricity is on Rich List

New report reveals suppliers to Clarks, Tesco and many others linked to illegal deforestation for cattle.

Clear Channel - one of the UK's largest billboard companies - have sold the BNP adverts. Stop them

Over 70 human rights and environmental groups have expressed outrage at the planned launch of the WWF's Aquaculture Stewardship Council.

The World Fair Trade Organization is developing a global certification system, designed to transform any business into a sustainable fair trading business.

A coalition of animal welfare groups across Europe has launched a scathing attack on MEPs.

Four new free reports have just been added to this site - flour, garden centres, sportswear and green electricity.

Join the campaign to improve workers' rights in Topshop's supply chain.

Richard, of 'The Good Life', is digging an allotment on land bought earlier this year by Greenpeace

Latest buyers' guides reveal Best Buys for current accounts and savings accounts.

This Easter, avoid eggsessive packaging and buy a bar of Fairtrade chocolate instead.

Coca-Cola buys 20% of Innocent Drinks

 Divine Chocolate are calling on people to Egg a Politician!

Eco retailers Natural Collection and Ethicalsuperstore.com combine

Greenpeace comments on their new policy

Research shows consumers are moving to ethical banking since the banking crisis

As Dairy Milk goes Fairtrade pressure increases on Nestle

Vanguard Group Inc., the largest US manager of stock and bond mutual funds, has introduced human-rights standards criteria to investments.

According to the World Rainforst Movement, Michelin has bulldozed 3,500 hectares of forests and farmlands in Nigeria, without local consent.

The Corporate Critic website is under attack from assailants unknown

Six new reports now available including supermarkets

The Affluenza Exhibition is a multi-disciplinary visual arts exhibition exploring consumer society's 'disease of affluence'.

Protests at the Museum of Science and Industry and the Science Museum

The latest buyers' guide in Ethical Consumer rates 47 high street clothes shops

Check out the top 10 most wasteful and pointless products

8 in 10 shoppers want a watchdog to monitor supermarkets treatment of suppliers.

The biggest event in the world dedicated to sustainable design and building will be bigger than ever this year.

Any organisation that delivers social, economic or environmental change can apply. Awards totalling GBP 50,000 up for grabs this March.

Day of Action Saturday, February 14

Join the Palestine Solidarity Campaign's day of action to put pressure on the Israeli government.

The public is being asked to vote on the most misleading chicken label in UK supermarkets.

The economic downturn is not putting consumers off 'green products', according to the latest piece of market research.

The Co-operative Group is launching ‘Plan Bee’, a campaign to raise awareness on the world wide plight of the bee.

What's happened since Panorama's allegations of child labour at Primark's Indian suppliers in June 2008.

Nominations needed for the award for Britain's most useless consumer product.

Urgent action is needed now to save our seas

Has the credit crunch shown ethical products to be a luxury?

Latest report reveals the best buys for a last minute Christmas gift.

Check out Ethical Consumer’s new report on supermarkets before you go

Lloyds TSB severs links with Interpal, a charity that provides relief and aid to Palestinians.

Sales of ethical gifts on the rise this Christmas

Get the low-down on the ethical best buys.

Buy nothing on Saturday 29th November.

Latest report from the Co-operative Bank into green spending

See how the companies perform in Greenpeace's latest guide.

Hold Primark to account for their failure to do more to protect garment workers rights.

Register for the 'Recharge the Media' action

A unique tool for advocates, victims of abuses, NGOs, business people and others.

Be ultra thrifty and swap unwanted presents

Join the March in London on December 6th.

Sign up to receive daily tips from Christian Aid

Vote now for the annual award for deceptive, manipulative or unethical lobbying.

Ongoing campaign at factory making military components for US and UK forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Israeli army.

Ethical survey of Premiership Clubs shows Man City to be the most progressive on environmental initiatives.

Are ethical products expensive luxuries?

Their top 5 funny, green videos

The latest Best Buy label awardees

The ethical low-down on flowers and tea.

Why do we buy clothes that advertise brands? They should be paying us!

Baby Milk Action has refused to hand over a domain name to Nestle.

Urgent action alert for international support

Help on choosing your home phone line provider

Nestle infiltrates NGO in Switzerland

A survey of the state of pay at 27 top fashion brands.

Find out which funds we recommend.

Which is the most sustainable brand of tinned tuna?

A Thai subsidiary of Triumph International has sacked a trade union president over a slogan on her T shirt.

A new campaign is trying to get people to drink tap water instead of bottled water.

Restaurant chains, mobile phone handsets and network providers, toothpaste and child car seats

Includes three new buyers' guides rating over 80 car, rice and green electricity brands.

Ferrero Rocher caves in to pressure from palm oil protestors.

Our friends at the Camp for Climate Action tell us that this year's event has been the biggest yet, despite heavy handed policing

A new Ethical Consumer buyer's guide highlights which sportswear companies are the winners and losers.

The YouTube for ethical consumers

Ethical Consumer regular Nike has chosen to withdraw the charmingly-named 'Air Stab' range from UK stores after complaints from consumers and charities.

Yes that's right, the Conservatives actually have a concrete policy. As you would expect it totally misses the point.

Every year, corporate crime costs us much more in financial terms and in terms of lives lost than ‘street crime.’

UK supermarkets are selling products from illegal Isreali settlements in the West Bank

Pharmaceutical companies' policies towards providing low cost medicine to the majority world

Nouvelle may boast its 100% recycled credentials – but the company that owns it also makes toilet tissue from virgin forests and was the main US importer of wood from Indonesia

for UK renewables

outraged about the poverty and injustice of the world?

Panorama: On The Rack

Why you'll never look at a packet of crisps the same way again.

 Climate Set back as the World's First “Carbon Neutral” Airline Goes Bust

and another thing! Carbon Neutral Airports!

Come fly with me, come fly let's fly away. If you could do with some exotic booze in a bar in far Bombay...

In June Burma Campaign UK updated their list of companies helping to finance the dictatorship.

According to Continental/KNOTS Research 88% of Brits switch off unused lights, 86% recycle waste, 72% use energy efficient light bulbs and 67% don’t leave electrical appliances on standby; 77% of Brits still feel guilty about not doing enough environmentally friendly activities.