Work is double-edged: while it provides the main opportunity for people to escape poverty, without respect for workers' rights, it keeps them locked into it.

The government must increase the minimum wage further, and do so swiftly.

Peter McAllister, Executive Director of the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) is to take up the role of Director of the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI).

"HIV/AIDS is a prism through which companies can understand and start to tackle other workers’ rights issues."

Imposing a blanket ban is not the solution to poor working conditions in Rajasthan.

ETI has written to several companies asking them to remove all statements that wrongly infer that they are ETI members from their websites and other promotional material.

All of us in ethical trade need to do much more to help drive up wages worldwide, so that more parents can send their children to school - not out to work.

"All our employers are interested in is our work. When there's no work, they kick us out. We want to be treated like human beings, not like animals."

People often complain about how reality TV dumbs us down, but BBC3's recent Blood, Sweat and Luxuries and its two predecessors use the medium to great effect.

I remember Phillipina saying to me: "We try, try, try. We never give up."

"I know my status - do you know yours?"

"We aim to provide a space to achieve progress on this global challenge," says ETI director Dan Rees.