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OVERVIEW
HUMAN RIGHTS

FAIR TRADE

UNDERSTAND THE CHALLENGE

Farming is the single largest employer in the world. Yet millions of people who grow our food are not earning enough to feed themselves or their families, nor is it sustainable for climate change, and poverty, worker.

GET THE FACTS

  1. In order to maximize profit, corporations look for ways to cut costs product production, leading to the use of low paying workers including slave labor.

  2. Products like coffee, tea, chocolate and cotton are being grown, harvested and processed in ways that are not sustainable—from injustices to the actual workers, to agriculture practices that are not environmentally sound.

  3. When consumers demand cheap products, it encourages businesses to use low paying workers including free slave labor to cut costs.

  4. Fair Trade identifies and certifies methods of agriculture that support ethical farm worker rights and environmental sustainability, ensuring that goods and services are produced in a way that respects the workers' rights throughout the supply chain.

  5. Yet there's a global lack of agreement about what fair trade really means and how it should be certified, with marked differences between some parts of Europe and North America.

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BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION

  1. Take the survey to find out what foods, goods, and services you use regularly that contribute to slave labor.

  2. Consult this website, or download a Fair Trade app to identify Free Trade products.

  3. Shift your purchasing habits: Find out more about the companies employing these unethical practices and try not to support them. Instead invest in ethical companies ensuring a balance of people, planet, profit. 

  4. Support Companies with Transparent Supply Chains: check out the Global Business Coalition Against Human Trafficking.

  5. Contact your MP or Congressman to request they amend trade agreements so that they can be enforced.

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