Een open brief aan de verantwoordelijke Jewellery Council en de Alliance for Responsible Mining. Huidige Handtekeningen 161. Wij, Ondergetekende, schrijven om onze bezorgdheid te uiten met betrekking tot de Fairtrade en Fairmined goud label, in de context van de huidige verhouding tussen de Alliance for Responsible Mining en de Responsible Jewellery Raad. We are concerned

I am writing to all the subscribers of the FJA blog to ask them to download and sign (see bottom of blog post for link) an open letter from Ethical Metalsmiths and Fair Jewellery Action in support of the purity of the Fairtrade Fairmined chain of custody on the gold from certified mines. Currently the

This article first appeared in the Ecologist on 24 April 2012 Nobody wants to look at jewellery and feel pangs of guilt but there’s no denying that the industry has a poor record when it comes to ethics with everything from blood diamonds to dirty gold and environmental destruction on the charge sheet. What’s more,