Choose certified chocolate & campaign for change this Fairtrade Fortnight
Flicking through the Metro this week, I‘ve noticed sprawling two page adverts for Nestle’s two-finger Kit Kat, proudly announcing it’s new status as Fairtrade certified. This is a great step for our campaign, as another iconic chocolate bar becomes certified, and also tied in neatly with the launch of Fairtrade Fortnight on Monday. This year, … Read more
Santa’s Sweatshop
For all the talk of Christmas as a time of peace, it’s remarkable how much conflict can materialise at this time of year. From family feuds to nativity displays, it seems the tiniest of details can tick people off during the season of goodwill! Even Santa can’t escape the yuletide flak. This poster-boy of Coca-Cola … Read more
Mondelēz announces $400m investment in sustainable cocoa
STOP THE TRAFFIK welcomes yesterday’s announcement from Mondelēz that they will be investing $400 million over ten years to help people in cocoa farming communities. This has the potential to change the lives of children being exploited, and to prevent children being trafficked onto cocoa plantations in the Ivory Coast in future. Whilst welcoming such … Read more
THE LIGHTER WAY TO ENJOY CHOCOLATE
Our CEO, Ruth Dearnley, has been demonstrating how to enjoy chocolate with a lighter conscience in the STOP THE TRAFFIK office, now that the first packets of Fair trade Maltesers have hit the shelves. 1. Can you spot the Malteser? 2. Notice how little attention the CEO gets from her team 3. Leave a comment … Read more
Did you find traffik-free Easter eggs?
STOP THE TRAFFIK activists around the world have been telling us how difficult it is to buy Traffik-Free Easter eggs this year from their local supermarkets. So together we are calling on all supermarkets to fill their shelves with traffik-free Easter eggs in 2013. Supermarkets are placing orders for Easter 2013. Now is the moment … Read more
Nestlé, Wish you were here!
Where are you headed on holiday over the next few months? If you are headed to Australia you’re in chocolaty luck because you’ll be able to find traffik-free 4 finger Kit Kat bars and by the end of 2011, Nestlé has committed to making their entire Australian Kit Kat range traffik-free and UTZ certified! Read more… Not … Read more
GLOBAL News Round 25.3.2011
Trinidad and Tobago The Slave Trade Act was passed 204 years ago today. In T&T they are commemorating the day with the inaugural celebration of Human Trafficking Awareness Day. In recognition of the day, the Caribbean Umbrella Body for Restorative Behaviour (Curb) has launched an online network which they hope will help end human trafficking and … Read more
Exploiting loopholes to exploit children
We are all very busy here getting ready to launch the Global Travel Alert! at our Global Freedom Summit on April 11! Earlier this week, I read an article in the Evening Standard which reaffirmed the need for us to issue the Global Travel Alert! and to not only enable people to create communities hostile … Read more
Noel Nestlé
Are you counting down to Christmas yet? You’re not the only one counting down… http://stopthetraffik-news.org/D5L-BISF-931KM19A61/cr.aspx
Global News 25/11/2010
Thailand / US If you want a ‘happy ending’, it depends, of course, on where you stop your story. This article from the LA Times is a perfect example. A Thai victim of human trafficking who has just been reunited with his family at LA International Airport after 6 years describes it as the most … Read more
Freedom means escape and an education
I’ve just visited one of the projects your money supports through Freedom Ticket for Life; Children on the Edge’s project in Mae Sot in Thailand on the border with Burma. Burma has been under military rule for many years and different ethnic groups have been under attack ever since (the military is literally trying to … Read more
It’s time to raise the bar Nestlé!
Dearest loveliest blog readers! I write with exciting news…… well exciting for us, annoying for Nestlé As I am sure you’re aware, over the last few years we have been working together to pressurize the chocolate industry into making ethical and traffik free choices. The industry has responded and we now have more traffik free … Read more
Children found enslaved on Worcester farm
Earlier this week I got home quite late. It was dark; I was feeling rather cold, hungry and was generally struggling to come to terms with the fact that winter seemed to be looming heavily. Anyway, I foraged around the kitchen on the hunt for comfort food and managed to uncover a rather limp cucumber … Read more
The Criminalisation of cannabis …or child victims?
a property? Is the house next door the same as yours? Is a house just a home? Or can you bring down the walls, cover the windows, rig up the heating and turn a property into a commercial cannabis farm? 3032 cannabis factories were identified between 1 April 2007 and 31 March 2008; 94% were … Read more
From Slaveland to Poundland
Have you ever been into a Pound/Dollar/Euro shop and like me, wondered, who (when you save so much) actually gains from what you buy? This question has never been more relevant than it is today. In Poundland, for £1 (the equivalent of about $1.5 or just over €1), you can buy anything from a notebook … Read more
1. What if…?
…a teacher realised the boy in her class had been trafficked into the country for benefit fraud?
The campaign in Spain falls mainly on…NESTLÉ!
There’s no denying we were excited when Nestlé announced the arrival of a Fair trade four-finger Kit Kat in the UK last December. But so far that’s all they’ve promised. As for the rest of Europe and the world, we’ve heard nothing. Nichts. Nada. Fortunately, the good people of Spain aren’t taking ¡no! for an answer. … Read more
Krafty or what?
This month Cadbury, after 186 years of producing chocolate and selling it around the world, was finally bought out by Kraft, the world’s second largest food maker. For Brits it felt a bit like selling the Queen. The more important issue though, is what is going to happen to Dairy Milk, which so recently went … Read more
