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Celebrating The Positive Power Of Fair Trade |
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11 May 2013 |
 This time of the year, we celebrate these life-enhancing values and the good people who make it happen. We recently celebrated Fair Trade Week and now in May, the World Fair Trade Day. What we are celebrating is the fact that millions of people around the world are involved one way or the other in producing, trading and consuming foods and products that are produced under strict rules and criteria so that only good comes from it.
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Bangladesh factory tragedy: Fair Trade Pioneers call for business to adopt best practice standards |
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26 April 2013 |
 Amid the recent factory tragedy in Bangladesh Fair Trade pioneers have called for mainstream business to adopt best practice standards. On Wednesday (24 April) an eight-storey building, housing garment factories and shops, collapsed in Dhaka killing over 300 workers and injuring over 1600. The recent collapse of a factory building is not isolated. CNN Reported that there are seven hundred workers have died in factory collapses and fires in Bangladesh in the last decade. In press statement issued to the media, Safia Minney of People Tree, Carey Somers of Pachacuti and Christine Gent of Fairly Covered have called for companies that source or have sourced from these factories to fund immediate compensation for injuries and loss of income, and for families who have lost their loved ones and breadwinners. Further, they called for brands sourcing in Bangladesh to sign and enforce the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement. See press release here.
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Conference to Unite and Promote Fair Trade Businesses |
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19 March 2013 |
 Annual Fair Trade Conference to be held May 1-3 in Raleigh, NC, USA. Wilmington, DE (March 8, 2013) - From May 1-3, 2013, the Fair Trade Federation will welcome entrepreneurs, students, advocates, faith community members, and interested individuals to their annual conference on the business of Fair Trade. The conference, held at the Doubletree Raleigh Brownstown-University Hotel in Raleigh, NC, provides a forum where Fair Trade-minded individuals can learn how to advance the business of Fair Trade in North America. Attendees will participate in workshops, discussions, and social activities as well as the Fair Trade Expo, a marketplace of wholesale product vendors. Entrepreneurs from across the world will come together to learn about and debate Fair Trade's holistic approach to business and sustainable, positive change.
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Belgian Development Agency accompanies East African producers on the road to the market |
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13 February 2013 |
 Trade for Development Centre (TDC), a program of the Belgian development agency, has engaged with COFTA (now WFTO Africa) to improve market access for handicraft producers in Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. These producers, often from rural communities, lack the commercial and technical capacities, which impedes their access to national and international markets. WFTO Africa through its respective country initiatives, UGAFAT in Uganda and RWAFAT in Rwanda, is rolling out activities, financed by TDC, to change this situation.
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