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“From empty standards to enforceable rights”…

Posted on October 15, 2020May 2, 2021 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_33158" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Cover image from Migrant Justice's first biennial report on the groundbreaking Milk with Dignity Program (photo by Vera Chang). The report covers the history of the innovative human rights program, its mechanisms for monitoring and enforcement, and the results from its first two years of operation.[/caption] Migrant Justice releases landmark report documenting unprecedented progress in Vermont >> Read More

Great new article in The Nation: “The Immokalee Way: Protecting Farmworkers Amid a Pandemic”…

Posted on October 7, 2020December 6, 2020 by CIW

Excellent reporting from The Nation takes sweeping look at this spring's first big COVID-19 outbreak among essential farmworkers -- involving workers sleeping two to a bed in overcrowded, unpermitted housing -- at Green Empire greenhouse in upstate NY; Green Empire greenhouse “owned by Ontario-based Mastronardi Produce, the largest distributor of hydroponic, indoor-grown produce in North America, and owner of at least six such facilities across the United States”; >> Read More

Collier County Sheriff’s changing version of events that led to police shooting of Nicolas Morales undermines public trust in the investigation and demands immediate transparency…

Posted on October 2, 2020May 2, 2021 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_32877" align="aligncenter" width="900"] A young Immokalee resident holds a sign during last month's prayer vigil following the fatal police shooting of Nicolas Morales.[/caption] Collier County Sheriff's Office issues conflicting statements on last month's fatal shooting of Nicolas Morales; Multiple discrepancies cast doubt on several key elements of the events leading up to Nicolas' death at the hands of Collier >> Read More

“The world has lost a giant, one who happily forsook Goliath for a life well-spent in David’s army.”

Posted on September 29, 2020May 2, 2021 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_33000" align="aligncenter" width="800"] General Counsel for the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Steve Hitov, speaks on a panel during a private screening of "Food Chains" in the Capitol Visitors Center on September 30, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kris Connor/Getty Images for "Food Chains")[/caption] Steve Hitov, Pioneering Human Rights Strategist and General Counsel, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, dies at >> Read More

A quote by the late Congressman John Lewis resurfaces, and not a moment too soon…

Posted on August 28, 2020December 6, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_32835" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Rep. John Lewis (center, left), the late congressman and civil rights activist, with Rep. Barbara Lee (center, right) in Selma, Alabama.[/caption] Civil Rights hero cites CIW in introduction to his final book on his life in the fight for social justice... Congressman John Lewis: “Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation >> Read More

Largest cut flower farm on US East Coast joins the Fair Food Program!

Posted on August 17, 2020May 2, 2021 by CIW

photos via Bloomia.com Bloomia -- international leader in the cut flower industry with farms on four continents -- brings its US greenhouse operations in King George, Virginia, into the expanding Fair Food Program... Just last week we shared news of the Fair Food Program's expansion into a new state, as we welcomed Smoky Mountain Family Farms of Tennessee into the >> Read More

Harvard Law School Human Rights Program hosts CIW for webinar on business and human rights!

Posted on August 7, 2020October 15, 2020 by CIW

Check out highlights from a remarkable conversation on the groundbreaking, 10-year study detailing the failure of the dominant Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) model and lifting up the Fair Food Program as the way forward for protecting human rights in corporate supply chains... Last week, we reported on the release of an unprecedented new study that is shaking up the world >> Read More

Fair Food Program expansion marches on, even in these difficult times!

Posted on July 31, 2020December 6, 2020 by CIW

Award-winning Fair Food Program breaks ground in Tennessee alongside longtime partner Sunripe Certified Brands and new FFP Participating Grower, Smoky Mountain Family Farms... Even in these dark and difficult times, the Fair Food Program continues to inspire and transform lives for the better. First came the publication last week of an unprecedented, decade-long study carried out by MSI Integrity, the >> Read More

New study confirms: All social responsibility programs NOT created equal!

Posted on July 21, 2020August 26, 2021 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_25182" align="aligncenter" width="800"] An auditor (right) from the Fair Food Standards Council, the third-party monitoring body tasked with ensuring the enforcement of the CIW’s Fair Food Program, is shown interviewing workers on a tomato farm in Florida. A new, 10-year study by the NGO MSI Integrity released last week, titled "Not Fit for Purpose," found significant shortcomings with the >> Read More

At “the epicenter of the epicenter”…

Posted on July 6, 2020December 6, 2020 by CIW

CIW’s Gerardo Reyes on MSNBC “Into America” podcast: “The people that place the food on the table of every family deserve better.” Month of June sees national media attention turn to the disaster unfolding in CIW’s backyard, as COVID-19 cases skyrocket in Immokalee, rest of Florida... For people living in Immokalee, the month of June was like no other in living >> Read More