Issues

Key issues in ethical trade

Read our easy-to-digest digest briefings on some of the key challenges we are tackling.

Case Study

Child labour

An estimated 211 million children around the world work

A living wage for workers

A wage you can afford to live on - what's not to like?

Yellow roses

Women flower workers are seeing some benefit from ethical trade

Auditing working conditions

The rush by companies to audit their suppliers has led to a culture of deception

Fairtrade products. Photo: Marcus Lyons

There's often confusion about the difference between ethical trade and fairtrade - but the two are complementary

Workers that make the clothes sold in the UK are often migrants

"We are the people at the lowest level of society"

Around 33 million people worldwide live with HIV/AIDS

90% of people with HIV/AIDS go to work. What should companies do?

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