Posted by Kylie Nealis in Fair Trade, Featured on 19th September, 2011 | No Comments
This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the signing of the Harkin-Engel Protocol – an agreement by the country’s largest chocolate companies, including Hershey’s, committing to put an end to forced child labor on cocoa farms in West Africa by 2005. The Protocol pledged to develop and implement voluntary standards to certify cocoa produced without the “worst forms of child labor,” (defined according to the International Labor Organization’s Convention 182).
Ten years later, no progress has been made.
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Posted by Corey Hill in Fair Trade, Global Exchange News & Events, World News & Events on 20th December, 2010 | 1 Comment
The next in our Open World series, today you’ll meet Xander Wells, a young Fair Trade activist showing by example how to open eyes, hearts and minds.
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Posted by Admin in Fair Trade, Featured on 19th November, 2010 | No Comments
Today as Part 5 in the Giving Thanks series, Global Exchange Fair Trade Campaign Director Adrienne Fitch-Frankel thanks Equal Exchange, a worker-owned cooperative based in Massachusetts, for stepping up to support something that started as just a little idea and has grown exponentially since.
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