CIW DELEGATION JOINS FORCES WITH FAMILY FARMERS IN NORWAY

CHECK OUT THE REPORT FROM DAYS 9 – 11 OF 2005 EUROPEAN TOUR! Click here…

CIW delegation heads to Europe — birthplace of the growing Fair Trade movement — on two-week tour to enlist new allies in global campaign for fair wages and working conditions in the fast-food industry’s supply chain…

Will meet with UN and ILO officials and union, religious, and community organizations to bring European consumer awareness to farmworker struggle against slavery and sweatshop conditions in Florida fields…

Be sure to check this site during the next two weeks for regular updates from the road in Europe as the CIW takes the Campaign for Fair Food to the land where the Fair Trade market is booming and corporations have learned that socially responsible business is good business (a lesson our friends in the fast-food industry have yet to truly take to heart…). Catch all the latest news as the CIW delegation visits Geneva (UN Geneva headquarters, pictured above), Marseilles, Amsterdam, and Oslo, where the delegation will meet with officials from the world’s largest pension fund about conditions in the fast-food industry’s supply chain and how their fund can help bring respect for human rights to Florida’s fields.

Click here for the report from Days 1 & 2 in Geneva, Switzerland!

Cick here to learn more about the CIW’s work to stamp out human trafficking and modern-day slavery!