11 November 2013 Fairtrade International is delighted to announce the publication of its new Standards and Premiums for gold, silver and precious metals http://www.fairtrade.net/our-standards.html  to help grow the market for small-scale miners around the world and deliver an ethical and responsible source of gold for the jewellery trade. Greg Valerio, gold programme co-ordinator at Fairtrade

A quick post for everyone who is following the progress of the Fairtrade Gold Pilots projects in east Africa (see link below). An excellent article in The Guardian on a recent visit to some of the pilots projects in Tanzania. This is a living illustration of why we need the jewellery trade, industry and and

We welcome the opportunity to comment on RJC‘s latest documents.   We recognise the challenges and see the logic in the initial steps taken to assure chain of custody. Fair Jewellery Action is a new network being established by Marc Choyt of Reflective Images (USA) and Greg Valerio (founder of CRED Jewellery and a founding board member