Featured News
Take a Step for Fairtrade in 2012
Fairtrade Fortnight, 27 February to 11 March 2012
‘Take a Step’ for Fairtrade is this year’s campaign call to people in the UK to engage with the Fairtrade Foundation’s vision of an even bigger movement for positive change on unfair trade, including making the switch to buying Fairtrade.
Latest News
Iris Munguia, first woman Coordinator of COLSIBA
Iris Munguia was appointed Coordinator at COLSIBA during the COLSIBA XI Conference in August this year. She is the first woman to be elected to lead COLSIBA since its foundation in 1993. Iris' election into this prominent position illustrates the great progress Latin American unions have made in terms of gender representation.
Featured Campaign
Make Fruit Fair
Workers producing bananas and pineapples for the shelves of European supermarkets often fail to earn a living wage, are sacked for joining unions and are exposed to hazardous working conditions. In response Banana Link, in partnership with Peuples Solidaires (France), BanaFair (Germany) and Nazemi (Czech Republic), are campaigning to 'MAKE FRUIT FAIR'!
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