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KitKat announced in June that it would be cutting its ties with Fairtrade, even after the popular Nestlé brand was warned that the move would affect thousands of farmers.
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The End Uyghur Forced Labour (EUFL) coalition is calling on brands to end the use of forced labour in their Chinese supply chains. Brands are being urged to cut ties with the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China (known to local people as East Turkistan), over atrocities there.
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Thousands of Moroccan women stranded in Spain due to coronavirus travel restrictions have begun to return home after a torturous 2 month ordeal.
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The UK’s veg box schemes have seen a surge in business since the start of the pandemic, as Simon Birch discovers.
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Andy Hughes explains the challenges faced by Shoe Aid, a UK-based charity that aims to eliminate shoe waste by providing shoes to those in need.
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Huda Amori tells us about a global campaign to end Puma’s complicity with Israeli apartheid.
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A growing list of corporations, including some of the world’s best-known brands, have signed up to a campaign aiming to hold Facebook to account for allowing hate speech and misinformation on its platform.
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Five leading fashion retailers have dropped Boohoo after allegations emerged of low pay and unsafe working conditions at a supplier’s factories.
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Leicester has become the first place in the UK to be put under a second and localised lockdown after Covid19 cases in the city started to rise again. Labour Behind the Label says that the mistreatment of workers at factories supplying Boohoo and other brands may have helped to spread the virus since lockdown began.
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HSBC is facing widespread criticism after its top executive in Asia publicly declared the firm’s support for the national security law that China has enforced in Hong Kong.
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In this guide we investigate, score and rank the ethical and environmental record of 21 video conferencing companies.
We also look at the climate impact of video calls, open-source software, shine a spotlight on the ethics of Verizon and give our recommended buys.
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Activists have called for a ‘BlackoutDay' on 7th July in protest against racism – “one day of solidarity in America where no one black person in America spends a dollar.”
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Travel news and events in ethical transport. All the top highlights for May and June.
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Amazon must address its treatment of black communities and workers, rather than paying lip service to Black Lives Matter says Clare Carlile...
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By Merle Büter
A workers’ union representing employees of Amazon has demanded the closure of the company’s logistics centre after 68 employees were tested positive for the virus. The union, Verdi, also raised concerns after Amazon took 14 days to inform employees about the first positive test result.
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May and June's news and events in ethical food and drink.
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Will there be a boom in onshore wind energy following the government’s change of heart? Simon Birch investigates.
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Colin Birch with a light-hearted guide to trying, and sometimes failing, to be ethical. This week he grapples with ethical sunscreen.
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We caught up with Kathryn Adams at Ecotricity, an ethical Best Buy company in our guide to Energy Suppliers and operator of Ecotalk, featured in our guide to Mobile Phone Networks.
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We caught up with a number of companies featured in our cosmetics shopping guides to ask how they are being impacted by the current crisis. Tim Hunt looks at their responses.