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Galaxy Chocolate

Six weeks after Stop the Traffik organized their March on Mars, the chocolate giant has committed to make incremental changes towards producing chocolate without slave labour. According to a recent update, Mars’ global range will be free from human trafficking by 2020: As a first step, one of Mars’ leading brands, Galaxy bars, in the [...]

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Cherries by Jake Liefer

Saturday is World Fair Trade Day 2009, and to celebrate we have some facts about the history of Fair Trade: Fair Trade certification first began in 1988. It was first called Max Havelaar, after a character in a nineteenth-century Dutch novel The first fair trade product was Mexican coffee that was sold in Denmark. There [...]

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