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The agricultural sector in southern Spain has long been implicated in workers’ rights abuses. Organic fruit and vegetable producer Biosabor has been singled out by workers as one of the most prolific offenders.

Ruth Strange scans the horizon for the latest concerns for people working in clothing supply chains.

Ethical Consumer calls for a boycott of Amazon over its aggressive tax avoidance. The company has also been criticised for providing services to fossil fuel giants, violating workers' rights, greenwashing, and causing major environmental harms. 

Find ethical online shops so that you can shop with a clear conscience. In this guide, we rate and rank 18 online shopping websites, giving our unique Best Buy advice, recommended buys and places to avoid.

Find out why we are campaigning for public bodies to be able to take into account the tax behaviour of companies like Amazon who are bidding for their contracts.

Almost all chocolate companies sell vegan bars now. But are all vegan chocolates equally ethical?

Global fashion brands have been criticised for removing statements on the use of forced labour in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region following boycott threats from China.

Kirin, owner of Fourpure, Little Creatures and Kirin Ichiban beer brands, has ended ties to the Burmese military after the military coup in the country in February 2021 and following a long-running boycott call.

Our conference connects people, ethical businesses, and campaign groups to explore our collective power and the change we can ignite in our communities. We ask the big questions facing society and discuss possible solutions and answers that prioritise people and planet over profit.

For more than a year now, Manchester United has been partnered with a direct funder of the 2017 Rohingya genocide. Laurence Crumbie and Christian Gilberti delve into this controversial partnership.

Over 500 workers have lost their homes after a fire in Nijar, Almeria. The workers, who supply salad vegetables to supermarkets in the UK, have faced multiple fires over recent years. They are forced to live in unsafe conditions due to exploitative working conditions and a lack of legal status.

David Poussier is aiming to radically transform the relationship between consumers and food producers in the UK, which he says has been dominated by the power of the big supermarkets for too long.

Following a joint investigation by Ethical Consumer and The Observer, the British Retail Consortium, representing UK supermarkets, has called on the Spanish Government to launch an inquiry into conditions for migrant workers in Almeria.

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…

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.

Five leading fashion retailers have dropped Boohoo after allegations emerged of low pay and unsafe working conditions at a supplier’s factories.

The focus on a meat market in China obscures the more complex role that our destruction of the environment has played in spreading viruses such as COVID-19.

December's news and events in ethical food and drink. Jane Turner rounds off the decade with coverage of animal welfare.

Simon Birch talks to Tamsin Lejeune, one of the UK’s leading advocates for ethical fashion.

The Singh Twins tell us about the artwork from their Slaves of Fashion series. The featured piece references the history of the colour indigo as well as jeans, an item of clothing that is commonly dyed that colour.