How to get involved in campaigns to green your cuppa
Tea
War on Want has revealed the continuing failure of UK retailers to improve the conditions of workers employed by businesses in their supply chains, despite their repeated claims to be addressing the issue. With British supermarkets unwilling to clean up their act, War on Want and other organisations are campaigning for the UK government to set up a Commission for Business, Human Rights and the Environment. It would have the authority to investigate the abuse of workers overseas and allow them to seek redress in the UK when they suffer corporate abuse.
UK-based Womankind are involved in critical outreach, support and training for women and women's groups in Kenya, aiming to end violence against women; increase women's participation in decision-making and increase resources for women's rights and development.
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Sugar
Bridges across Borders Cambodia is a grassroots organisation working to bring people together to overcome poverty, injustice and inequity in Cambodia. It raises global awareness of the pressing issues facing the most vulnerable people in Cambodia. It facilitates people-to-people exchanges, solidarity actions, and volunteer programs and teaches creative, non-violent methods of resolving conflict.
Human Rights Watch is one of the world's leading independent organisations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights. By focusing international attention where human rights are violated, HRW give voice to the oppressed and hold oppressors accountable for their crimes.
Milk
Would you drink factory milk from battery cows? If the idea is repulsive then sign up to 'Not in my cuppa' campaign led by The World Society for the Protection of Animals, the world's largest alliance of human societies and animal protection organisations. WSPA campaign to convince governments and key decision makers to change practices and introduce new laws to protect or improve the welfare of animals.
Compassion in World Farming believe that factory farming is the biggest cause of animal cruelty on the planet. If you agree, act now and join CIWF's campaign to wipe out factory farming.
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NEWS ANALYSIS Special report PG Tips and Lipton tea hit by 'sexual harassment and poor conditions' Unilever and the Rainforest Alliance deny female employees at the Kericho tea plantation in Kenya are subjected to sexual harassment. But Dutch research outfit SOMO paints a very different picture of life for some working at the plantation? Verity Largo visits Kenya to investigate |
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NEWS ANALYSIS Special report Revealed: the bitter taste of Cambodia’s sugar boom Sugar may seem innocuous enough, but sweet-toothed Western consumers could be fuelling conflict between poor farming communities and big business with every spoonful. Sam Campbell reports from Phnom Penh |
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NEWS ANALYSIS Special report Milk: why the white stuff leaves a bad taste Unlike tea and sugar, the fresh milk we drink with our cuppa is likely to come from farms in the UK. But as Tom Levitt reports, there are still serious environmental and animal welfare problems associated with the UK dairy sector |
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NEWS ANALYSIS Special report Sugar: why our favourite sweetener is not so sweet Sugar can be produced from both sugar beet and sugarcane. Sugarcane production is of particular concern in terms of environmental degradation and human rights abuses, reports William McLennan |
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NEWS ANALYSIS Special report Environmental damage and human rights abuses blight global tea sector Human rights violations have been reported at plantations in virtually all major tea producing countries, while tea growing itself has a profound effect on the local environment. William McLennan reports |
