Five days before his arrest in September last year, a prominent Ethiopian dissident blogger, Eskinder Nega, wrote, “Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.” Eskinder Nega. Picture source: arefe.files.wordpress.com On 13 July, 2012 Ethiopia’s federal court sentenced Eskinder and 23 other [...]
By: Akhila Vijayaraghavan Chocolate like coffee is a multi-billion dollar industry. It is also provides some very important CSR and sustainability issues for companies that deal with chocolate. Chocolate has its origins with the cacao tree, native to Central and South America. Today however, about 70% of the world’s cacao is grown in Africa. The history of chocolate goes back to the [...]
As I write this I have a double batch of brownies baking in the oven. Nothing, after all, is better than a batch of fresh baked brownies…nothing, perhaps, except said brownies couched under a hefty scoop of vanilla ice cream and double whipped cream. Unfortunately, the key ingredient in brownies – chocolate -has a distinctly unsustainable source flying strongly in [...]
By: Sangeeta Haindl The glamorous world of fashion is not really associated with being the world of socially responsible companies or sustainability. Yet one woman is changing this: Eva Kruse, CEO of the Danish Fashion Institute and Chairman of the Nordic Fashion Association. In the last month, she has pulled off the largest sustainable fashion summit in the world and launched [...]
[Four Days to End Sex Slavery is a series of four actions that support new campaigns focused on ending sex slavery around the globe. Through the donation of a few dollars, a few minutes of your time, or a few shares on your own social media, we steadily move towards an end to the trade in humans and forced prostitution. [...]
Three Avocados is a non-profit organization that is fighting to ending the global water crisis, starting with Uganda. We aim to provide coffee lovers with a product that enables them to make a 100% socially responsible choice when purchasing coffee. Interview with Joe Koenig: What is Three avocados doing? Three Avocados is a non-profit coffee company, selling premium coffee from [...]
BY: Therese Ngo As an American girl who grew up in the 90’s, fighting for women’s rights and gender equality never crossed my mind. I never had thoughts like, “Will my family survive if I go to school today” and I never had to cope with inequitable employment wages, financial or social security. I grew up in a world where the [...]
By: Barry Rodriguez My mind was whirling. I simply couldn’t come to grips with what I was seeing. Beauty covering pain. Smiles covering indignity. How could these shy, giggling girls be the victims of one of history’s greatest injustices? ——- The other day I had the opportunity to interview a family in the Phnom Penh region; to sit in their home [...]
In Romania, Not For Sale supports Mariana and her team of local abolitionists to repatriate trafficking survivors. We work with men, women and children who have been trafficked all around the world – from Romania to France, from Bangladesh to Romania, and from town to town within Romania. Since the beginning of 2011, Not For Sale [...]
Every year in the lead up to Mother’s Day, analysts and pundits are busy calculating the holiday’s economic impact. This year, consumer spending is expected to reach around $18.6 billion, according to the National Retail Federation. But maximizing the real economic value of women needs to be seen as a core strategy of the recovery and part of the [...]
