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Specsavers aims to provide excellent eye and hearing care to their customers. But how much does the company care about ethical issues such as the environment, people, and animals?
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Helen Dewdney, The Complaining Cow consumer champion, writes a guest post on ethics, customer service and complaint handling.
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A new report on financing fossil fuels finds that the UK’s ‘big five’ banks have actually increased investments in dirty energy since the Paris Agreement.
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We speak to Joanna Adjetey (Planet Bananna), writer and influencer. Since 2016 she has been sharing her journey through veganism and learning how to consume more ethically for the planet.
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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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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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The United Nations’ special rapporteur on extreme poverty has condemned conditions for immigrant workers in Huelva, Southern Spain, as the start of the 2020 berry picking season begins.
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Our research into a company's politics is divided into 5 main areas:
controversial technologies
anti-social finance
boycott calls
political activity
tax conduct
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All the latest in the health and beauty industries, from updates on the campaign for plastic free periods to the market for solid shampoo.
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The International Campaign for the Rohingya (IRC) has called for a boycott of Kirin Group over its links with the military and authorities in Myanmar (Burma), in the wake of ethnic cleansing in Rakhine state.
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Extinction Rebellion UK members turned Siemens’ London office into a ‘crime scene’ on the 16 January, following its decision to continue providing railway signalling services to the Adani coal mine in Queensland, Australia.
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Tom Bryson introduces the ethical issues involved with technology.
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In a previous feature, we reported on the widespread protests undertaken by thousands of garment industry workers in Bangladesh to demand fair pay.
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Typhoo has become the final ‘big 6’ tea brand to publish its list of tea suppliers in Assam – marking the end of secrecy in the UK tea sector.
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Sportswear giant Nike sparked a twitter storm in September when their new ad campaign featured Colin Kaepernick, an American football (NFL) player, who protested against racial injustice and police brutality by kneeling during the national anthem in 2016.
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Costa’s ethical score to fall from 6.5 to 2 out of 20
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Federer’s new sponsor UNIQLO pays him millions, but refuses wages to workers
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Mobile phones have revolutionised modern life and now most of us can't seem to do without them, and why should we? However it is important to recognise their negative environmental impacts. Here we look at how to reduce them.
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We celebrate our top 5 cruelty-free beauty brands this World Animal Day
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In this guide we investigate, score and rank the environmental and ethical record of 15 fossil fuel free investment funds.
We also discuss the meaning of 'fossil free' and the importance of having positive investing criteria as well as negative screening exclusions.