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

How is Internet privacy affected by our broadband and email providers and what is the bigger picture? Ruth Strange talks to Javier Ruiz at the Open Rights Group (ORG).

Information about our activity online has become a commodity in itself. Not only is our social network activity collected and sold to advertisers and even political campaigns, but also our Internet histories and emails.

A new report has laid bare the extent of tax avoidance from six of the biggest US tech firms.

Which party is most serious about addressing issues around ethical consumption?

Tax justice news for December 2019/January 2020. Information about the release of the Manifesto for Tax Justice and Fair tax news.

Following this year’s publication of the Co-op Bank’s ‘Values and Ethics Report 2018’, the Customer Union for Ethical Banking raised the alarm after its eagle-eyed discovery that the report lacked external scrutiny from a third party.

Colin Birch with a light-hearted guide to trying, and sometimes failing, to be ethical. This issue: Laptops.

How ethical is Queenie Organics?

E-waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the world and only 15-20% of it is recycled. Merle Büter looks at what campaigners have to say about this.

We caught up with Kath Clements, from our Best Buy company Mooncup Ltd. The company came top in our ethical shopping guide for Menstrual Products.

A few hours before the opening of London Fashion Week in mid-September, Extinction Rebellion activists staged a ‘die-in’ outside the central venue.

In June, Microsoft made a multi-million-dollar investment in AnyVision, whose surveillance technology is used in Israeli checkpoints in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The investment has been condemned by Human Rights Watch.

Villain of our ongoing boycott for tax avoidance, Amazon hits the news again for violations in its supply chain. Hundreds of teenagers in China have been asked to work nights and overtime to meet production targets for making Amazon’s Alexa devices, in violation of Chinese law.

A huge amount of e-waste is produced globally every year, yet only around a quarter of it is collected and recycled properly.  Where does the rest of this e-waste waste go, what harm does it do to people and the environment and what toxic chemicals are involved? In this article we explore the issues of e-waste and what consumers can do about…

Inadequate working conditions are a persistent issue in the IT supply chain. The vast majority of manufacturing takes place in countries with fewer protections for workers. In this article we look at typical working conditions, particularly in China, and the use of potentially forced labour.