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Poor women turn company directors â OneWorld South Asia Home
Posted in General, gender, women's issues on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New arrivals: Fair Trade gemstone jewellery
Posted in Fair trade fashion, General, tagged Conscious consumer, conscious consumers, ethical, ethical shopping, fair trade, fair trade accessories, fair trade jewellery, gemstones, gifts, new arrivals, people, planet, poverty, semi-precious jewellery, shopping, sustainable, women on July 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Beautiful “one off” individually designed pieces of jewellery packed with semi-precious stones and Fair Trade have arrived at the conscious consumer.
Our supplier amba nature works directly with producers in the micro cottage industries in the Philippines and specialises in sourcing ethically and fairly traded products from non-profit voluntary cooperatives, foundations and ngos, and livelihood communities and community [...]
Poverty main cause of trafficking.
Posted in General, gender, women's issues, tagged campaign, Conscious consumer, discrimination, Eastern Europe, education, empowerment of women, fair trade, Moldova, NGOs, people, poverty, self-esteem, sex workers, slavery, trafficking, Ukraine, values, women, women's issues on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chakarova’s research certainly goes further than telling the terrible stories of trafficked women. The detailed personal accounts highlight the problems that need to be addressed if sex trafficking is to be controlled. Poverty emerges time and again as the main cause in each of her stories.