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Conscious Consumers: 10 Ways Millennials & Gen Zs Are Changing How & What We Buy
Look around your regular grocery store or high street shops, and it’s pretty hard to miss the major changes that have taken place as new trends shake up decades-old established industries. Thanks to millennials (people born between 1981!-->…
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Zalando, ASOS & Next Drop Boohoo Over Factory Exploitation Allegations
Fashion retail giants Next, Zalando and ASOS have just pulled fast fashion brand Boohoo off their sites after allegations of worker’s exploitation, low pay and hazardous working conditions at the company’s supplier factory in Leicester in!-->…
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The Cost Of Environmental Activism For Indigenous Protesters? Death
By: Rachel Ramirez
Adán Vez Lira, a prominent defender of an ecological reserve in Mexico, was shot while riding his motorcycle in April. Four years earlier, the renowned activist Berta Cáceres was shot dead in!-->!-->!-->…
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World Environment Day: 10 Women POC Planet Activists To Celebrate Everyday
This year, we are celebrating World Environment Day by spotlighting female persons of colour who are leading the fight to save our planet. From campaigning to end deforestation to protecting wildlife species, combating rising global!-->…
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George Floyd Death: Climate Activists Promise To Address Rampant Racial Justice
By: Ilana Cohen, Evelyn Nieves, Judy Fahys, Marianne Lavelle, James Bruggers
Friends of the Earth tweeted #BlackLivesMatter, and the head of the NRDC promised “to be fully and visibly committed to the fight against systemic racism.”
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Vietnam: Garment Workers’ Lose Income As Covid-19 Decimates Fashion Orders
Vietnam’s significant textile industry is battling the sudden drop in orders due to vanished demand as a result of the coronavirus, which could mean the loss of vital incomes for the country’s garment makers. Vinatex, one of the largest!-->…
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UN: Pandemic Will Push 34 Million People Into Extreme Poverty In 2020
The United Nations’ mid-year update, the World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) report, expects that the coronavirus pandemic will drive more than 34 million people into extreme poverty. Highlighting that the crisis will exacerbate!-->…
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Sustainable “Doughnut” Economics To Lead Amsterdam’s Post-Pandemic Recovery
As the Dutch capital begins to plan for its post-pandemic recovery, it is ditching traditional financial models for a new “doughnut” metric, a system that keeps poverty at bay while ensuring environmental sustainability. In doing so, it!-->…
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Amazon Executive Resigns Over Firings Of Employee Activists Against Poor Working Conditions
Tim Bray, an engineer and vice-president at Amazon’s Web Services arm, has made a high-profile exit from the e-commerce giant. In a post explaining his resignation, Bray said he was “in dismay” over the company’s firing of employee!-->…
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“Rise For All” Women Leaders Call For Global Action To Address Human Crisis Of Pandemic
Women leaders around the world have joined hands in solidarity to call for a mass global effort to address the human crisis of the pandemic. Called the “Rise for All” campaign, the initiative calls on leaders in all countries and sectors!-->…
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Modern Slavery: The Kenyan Domestic Workers That Are Trafficked & Forced To Work In Hong Kong
Slavery is not a thing of the past. It still exists today, affecting millions across the world, including our home here in Hong Kong, where Kenyan domestic workers are trafficked and subjected to forced labour in the city.
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What About Migrants And Refugees? The Stark Reality Faced By The World’s Displaced During Covid-19
As Covid-19 continues its spread across the world, the pandemic will disproportionately affect the world’s most vulnerable populations, among them asylum seekers, refugees, internally displaced peoples and migrant workers. The world must!-->…
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M&S, Walmart, Mothercare: Brands Called Out By XR Activists For Not Paying Bangladeshi Workers During Pandemic
XR Fashion Action, a global climate advocacy group calling for a 52-week boycott of new clothing or textile products for the planet, has recently voiced the social injustices that garment workers are now facing from fast fashion giants!-->…
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Coronavirus Pandemic Will Keep 24 Million People In East Asia In Poverty
The economic recession from the coronavirus pandemic will stop almost 24 million people from overcoming poverty in East Asia and the Pacific this year, warned the World Bank. In a new report, the World Bank also said that households!-->…
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World Health Day: Good Health & Wellbeing Amidst A Global Pandemic
World Health Day is a global health awareness day celebrated every year on April 7, launched by the World Health Organisation (WHO). World Health Day this year is happening in the middle of the global Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the!-->…
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5 Depressing Facts Ahead Of International Women’s Day 2020
International Women’s Day is internationally observed on the March 8th every year, representing a focal point for women’s rights and is a celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. Some people wonder!-->…
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Is Your Starbucks Coffee Supplied By Child Labour? Investigation Exposes Giants Including Nespresso
A new investigation by Channel 4’s current affairs programme Dispatches has revealed that coffee chain giant Starbucks and Nespresso are sourcing their beans from suppliers who are using child labour. The television exposé showed children!-->…
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Joaquin Phoenix Slams Climate, Animal & Human Injustices In Viral Oscar Speech
As Joaquin Phoenix accepted the Academy award for best actor for the 2019 film Joker at the Oscars ceremony, he addressed the crowd with a winning speech that placed a much-needed spotlight on global inequalities. While there is no doubt!-->…
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UN Human Rights Committee Ruling: Climate Refugees Cannot Be Returned Home
A landmark ruling by the United Nations human rights committee (OHCHR) has found that it is unlawful for governments to return people back to the countries where their lives were threatened by the climate crisis. The judgement comes as!-->…
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Landmark UK Ruling Protects Ethical Veganism From Discrimination Under Equality Act
An employment tribunal in Norwich, England has recently ruled that ethical veganism is a philosophical belief protected by the law against discrimination. The ruling came in a case brought by Jordi Casamitjana, a man who claimed that he!-->…
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Green Queen 2020 Trend Predictions: Seafood As We Know It Is Dead
2020 is the year where seafood as we know it will be dead, primarily due to heightened concerns about not only the environmental impact of consuming fish and other seafood, with health and ethical concerns playing a part too. More people!-->…
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