A small news story tucked away on the back page of a Dhaka newspaper should remind us of why we need ethical trade urgently, thinks Stirling Smith, ETI trainer, writing from Dhaka.

Reporting from New Delhi on labour legislation that could be scrapped under the new BJP government.

What would be a sufficient wage for Malawi’s tea pluckers to live on?

Since wages are driven by multiple factors, ETI's Sabita Banerji focuses on the critical three that need to be tackled.

Rachel Wilshaw, Oxfam’s Ethical Trade Manager looks back on the astonishing 20 year rise of Fairtrade. And asks if it's time the UK government intervened on banana pricing.

Stirling Smith expects few surprises in the ethical trade stories that will hit the headlines in 2014.

NGOs have been pushing for the living wage for at least 15 years, but Rachel Wilshaw, Oxfam's Ethical Trade Manager thinks a breakthrough is on the cards.

We welcome ILO’s recently released report presenting a path toward the sustainable growth of the ready-made garments sector.

The minimum wage for garment workers in Bangladesh has been raised. Is it enough and will workers get the full benefit? 

As Living Wage Week comes to an end, the work to try to achieve it for workers in the UK and around the world continues.