Campaigns archive

24.02.2006 Fairtrade Fortnight, 6-19 March, aims this year to encourage people to make Fairtrade products a regular feature of their shopping baskets.

22.02.2006 Save the Children is working to assist children and families in the central Philippines following a huge mudslide that killed hundreds of people in the village of Guinsaugon.

17.02.2006 One third of the world’s consumers don’t have access to a regular supply of energy, while electricity already accounts for 38 per cent of global CO2 emissions. On World Consumer Rights Day, 15 March, G8 energy ministers meet in Moscow to discuss the future of global energy supplies. Consumers International is calling on you to lobby your government and G8 ministers to provide all with access to sustainable energy.

17.02.2006 Coke's known as the real thing. It's also accused by some people of being a ruthless, irresponsible marketing monster and charged with polluting and using up groundwater, distributing toxic waste as fertiliser, selling toxic drinks and being complicit in murder, torture and intimidation of union workers. What's happening to the world's favourite drink?

15.02.2006 China, Nepal and India must increase efforts to break the smuggling networks involved in the international illegal trade of tiger and leopard skins says leading members of the European Parliament.

13.02.2006 Governments, retailers and the mainstream coffee industry should support the growing consumer demand for certified coffees such as Fair Trade, Organic, Rainforest Alliance and Utz Kapeh say Consumers International and the International Institute for Environment and Development. The Coffee Campaign

13.02.2006 Women make up more than half the world’s population yet they only show up in a tiny fraction of the world’s news. Take part in three weeks of global action until 8 March to challenge the world’s media to represent women and men in a fairer and balanced way.

08.02.2006 For a decade thousands of women have been abducted, raped, tortured and killed in Guatemala, and the authorities have failed to bring those responsible to justice. Carlos Reyes-Manzo’s black and white photo exhibition
on the murders in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and in Guatemala City shows in London, 16 February-5 March. Help stop violence against women.

01.02.2006 French President Jacques Chirac has declared 10 May an annual national day of remembrance for the victims of slavery and said it should be taught in primary and secondary schools as part of the national curriculum: "Slavery fed racism ... When people tried to justify the unjustifiable, that was when the first racist theories were elaborated."

01.02.2006 A new campaign has been launched to end the portrayal of tribal people in the press as "primitive" and "Stone Age".

01.02.2006 This Friday campaigners around the world are taking action against TOTAL Oil, the fourth largest oil company in the world, for continuing to carry out business with Burma’s dictatorship. The UK demo is at 12.30pm outside the company’s head office at 33 Cavendish Square, London, W1G OPW.