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Friends Of the Earth’s open letter calls on England’s biggest landowners to grow more trees.
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With so many different products on our bathroom shelves, the smallest room is a big source of plastic waste in the home.
Here are some top tips from blogger The Green Shopper for plastic-free alternatives to common bathroom and beauty products.
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In July 2020, a group of Kenyan tea plantation workers filed a complaint with the UN against Unilever, stating that the company violated international human rights standards by failing employees who were attacked after ethnic violence broke out following an election in 2007.
In this article, we ask whether Unilever is still failing to respect its…
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We talk to Rosie Venner (RV) and Dr Justin Thacker (JT) of the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility about their work on ethical finance and tax justice.
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The UK Government has announced a new fund to improve workers’ rights and conditions in high street supply chains during the coronavirus pandemic. Businesses said to be benefiting from the scheme include Primark, Mondelez (Cadbury, Green & Blacks) and Tesco.
Campaigners ask why these multi-million pound brands are not already protecting those…
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A new UK network is creating collective, national campaigns to challenge corporate power. Ethical Consumer has published research on JCB - the target of its first campaign - in support of the launch.
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Greenpeace UK is calling on Tesco to stop buying meat and dairy from companies allegedly involved in Amazon deforestation and to halve the amount of meat it sells by 2025. Alison Kirkman from Greenpeace UK explains why.
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May Project Gardens – a community permaculture garden in Morden – works with urban communities, to address poverty, disempowerment and access to resources and influence. Now, they are trying to raise £25,000 so they can own their premises. Co-Director Mona Bani explains why.
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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, which is part of BDS.
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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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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.