The British Government announced this week that Business Minister Jenny Willott will work with the British Retail Consortium (BRC) to produce a number of recommendations for UK retailers to address human rights abuses in their supply chains. Later this year The BRC will work with its members and key stakeholders to produce a publication highlighting

When I was in Tanzania and Kenya, I met with many inspirational people from Fair Trade Africa and England who were involved in introducing fairtrade gold to small scale miners. The miners themselves were savvy and innovative people who had struggled hard to get where they are. We could all see how these small scale

The miners shown here are seeking fair trade certification for their gold mine. They are just a few of the perhaps twenty five million artisan small-scale gold miners worldwide, a quarter of which are children and women. They supply anywhere from fifteen to twenty-five percent of the global gold supply, typically sold through a network