FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Complaint Filed Against Destructive Olympic Medals Metal Mine Being Considered for World Bank Support Tokyo, Japan, October 12, 2012 – Today, a group of Mongolian herder households filed a complaint demanding just compensation for the impacts of Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine and its associated facilities (“OT Project”), located

By Marc Choyt, FJA USA The first feedback period for ARM and FLO’s proposed standards to mass balance or dilute the fairtrade gold content in the product composition of jewellery is over. We are not certain what the decision will be, but clearly we are a major turning point that will determine the fate of

Our thanks to Ingle & Rhodes, the UK based ethical jeweller and fairtrade License holder and Kim Thompson a jeweller from Australia have backed the call to prevent mass balancing and dilution in the Fairtrade Gold supply chain. This brings the signatures up to 147