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Migrant workers face 'severe exploitation' in Italy's farm sector
Andrew Wasley, investigations editor
4th January, 2013
Amnesty International report calls for urgent action to tackle 'widespread' abuse of migrants in the food sector. This follows two Ecologist investigations into 'slave labour' connected to the Italian tomato and orange harvests. Andrew Wasley reportsmore...
Conservative MP 'promoted cotton trade linked to child labour'
Lucy Dunne
2nd January, 2013
A Tory MP has been accused of drumming up support for the controversial Uzbekistan cotton trade campaigners claim is linked to child labour. Lucy Dunne reports more...
The Cinderella economy: an answer to unsustainable growth?
Tim Jackson
27th July, 2012
As worldwide Governments blindly attempt to support unlimited growth using limited resources, Tim Jackson believes the answer to true sustainability may lie on the economy's fringes more...
Top 10...tips for a natural labour
Holly Jeffery
7th March, 2012
Whether it’s raspberry leaf tea or a spot of stretching, pregnancy massage specialist Holly Jeffery suggests some all-natural ways to keep labour pain at bay more...
TAKE ACTION: Five campaigns to make fashion more fair
Hannah Corr
2nd November, 2011
From supporting garment workers' rights, to ending harmful denim sandblasting, there are many campaigns to improve high street clothing retail practices. Take action and add your voice to the call to make fashion fair more...
Who is picking our food?
Ecologist
2nd March, 2012
In a major investigation the Ecologist reports on the hidden stories behind those harvesting the fruit and vegetables - and other staples - we eat everyday, both in the UK and internationally more...
Bitter harvest: how exploitation and abuse stalks migrant workers on UK farms
Andrew Wasley
10th October, 2011
Migrant workers are vital for meeting the UK's demand for year-round fruit and vegetables. But despite improvements since the Morecambe Bay tragedy, allegations of poor conditions and abuse in the horticulture sector persist. Andrew Wasley reports more...
The Harvest: new film reveals scourge of child labour in US farming
Rosie Spinks
1st September, 2011
Despite campaigning to reduce child labour internationally, the US is home to at least 230,000 child labourers toiling in the fields to pick blueberries, tomatoes or cotton more...
TAKE ACTION to ban 'killer jeans'
Matilda Lee
25th May, 2011
Join Labour Behind the Label in a week of action from 30th May to 5th June to lobby brands to ban the technique of sandblasting denim more...
An eco injection
Joss Garman
30th April, 2009
Barack Obama and Ban Ki Moon, Labour and the Conservatives, green groups and trade unionists, Nicholas Stern and even Peter Mandelson - everybody is talking about a 'Green New Deal'. Faced with an economic downturn, climate breakdown and an energy system in need of billions of new investment anyway, the idea is simple and attractive. more...
Climate change politics
Joss Garman
19th June, 2008
As an excuse to do nothing itself, this Labour Government has often hidden behind US intransigence on climate change, so it’ll be interesting to see how Gordon Brown might respond to a US President more progressive than he on global warming. more...
Meacher attacks Government's Climate Change Bill
News
9th May, 2007
Former environment Minister and Labour leadership candidate Michael Meacher MP has derided the government's Climate Change Bill as 'nowhere near commensurate to the threat'. more...
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Climate Change Botch?
Isabel Hilton
15th March, 2007
The publication of the government's draft Climate Change Bill this week signalled the latest round of the escalating competition between David Cameron and Tony Blair to take the title of climate change champion of the world. Following hard on the EU measures, the government's bill set out more radical targets than before and promises to deliver them – a promise that will be reinforced by a new committee of independent auditors. more...
Tony Blair hits back at road pricing protesters
News
21st February, 2007
Tony Blair today insisted that congestion would increase by 40% in under 20 years unless car use is deterred. more...
Special Report Supermarkets: UK Apple Market
Felicity Lawrence
1st September, 2004
We were being given 20 to 21 pence a kilo, they were selling them in the stores at twice that, and we needed 32 pence to break even. The prices would change by the day, and then they’d take 60 to 90 days to pay you. more...
Permanent Global Summertime
Joanna Blythman
1st September, 2004
As the supermarket doors glide open there they are – cosmetically perfect, irresistibly firm, brilliantly coloured fruit and vegetables. And yet, when you get them home, they taste of nothing. Is it the way you cooked them, or have you just selected badly? No, you’ve been conned. more...
The myth of modern democracy
Ivo Mosley
8th July, 2004
Far from being proof of our political emancipation, our right to vote in parliamentary elections is a symbol of power that keeps us powerless. more...
Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser
1st April, 2004
In February a report by George W Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) suggested that fast food workers might in the future be classified as manufacturing workers. A CEA report asked: ‘When a fast-food restaurant sells a hamburger, for example, is it providing a “service”, or is it combining inputs to “manufacture’ a product?’ more...
Say It Without Flowers
Venetia Hargreaves-Allen
1st October, 2003
Say: ‘I am happy to pay for environmental degradation, chronic illness and labour rights abuses in countries that grow flowers for Western consumers but cannot feed their own people.’ more...
The magnificent bluefin tuna
Richard Ellis
1st October, 2003
Richard Ellis celebrates the beauty of one of nature’s most miraculous, and least appreciated creatures – the bluefin tuna. more...
Post-partisan environmentalism
Steven Hale
1st January, 2001
Who said these words: ‘The environmental movement is a growing force in civil society, searching for a home in mainstream politics. The party that succeeds will be the natural party of government’? It wasn’t George Monbiot, Tony Juniper or Jonathon Porritt. It was David Miliband, in December 2006. more...Members
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