Introductie: Sonya Maldar of the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) discusses CAFOD’s recent campaign, focusing on the retail jewellers and the challenge eliminating dirty gold from the jewelry supply chain. By Greg Valerio (Greg Valerio is a fair trade jewellery campaigner. He is the founder of CRED the fair trade jewellery brand and a

Introductie: This is an exchange between myself and Cristina Echavarría, Executive Director of the Alliance For Responsible Mining (ARM), on the issue of what materials to be used in manufacturing, and other issues last March. This is published in the spirit of transparency, as we are about to begin our discussion again. The members of

Introductie: Onlangs, I have been recently working on a document to move forward a process started two years ago at a Madison Dialog World Bank meeting that took place in Washington DC. I sought to spearhead an initiative to develop fair trade manufacturing principles and standards. In preparation for the new round of discussions, hier