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SOCIAL media round-up! Twittersphere, Facebook light up with calls for Fair Food…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="#FairFoodNation's messages for @Publix & @Wendys resound across #Facebook & #Twitter..." url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=17451"] The Fair Food Nation has a long and storied history of creative mobilizations on the ground -- two-hundred-mile marches, week-long fasts, rallies of thousands.  But in the past few years, echoes of the ever-growing groundswell of support in the streets are being heard on social media networks, as >> Read More

UN Global Compact write up on Fair Food Program a great read…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title=".@UN cites #FairFoodProgram in supply chain sustainability index!" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=17431"] [caption id="attachment_17440" align="aligncenter" width="523"] The entryway to the United Nations offices in Geneva.[/caption] Have you ever wanted the perfect one-pager on the Fair Food Program -- the document you could hand your local grocery store manager, your campus foodservice provider, your community or church social justice group, or just a >> Read More

CIW invited to speak in Geneva at United Nations!

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[hupso_hide][hupso title=".@CIW to speak at #UnitedNations at Forum on Business & #HumanRights and @TrustWomenConf!" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=17157"] CIW to also address the "Trust Women" Conference in London in first week of December, as the Fair Food Program's growing reputation for effective human rights protection crosses the Atlantic... Back in May of this year, a delegation from the United Nations Working Group traveled >> Read More

Myth #3: Corporations can be trusted to investigate, and to determine any appropriate corrective action, when their suppliers violate their workers’ human rights.

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Myth #3: Corporations can be trusted to unilaterally investigate, and to determine any appropriate corrective action, when their suppliers violate their workers' human rights. In the third and final installment of our series, "The Three Founding Myths of Corporate-Led Social Responsibility," we turn to the fundamental question: Who can be trusted to protect workers' rights in corporate supply chains? Can the corporations themselves >> Read More
U.N. Working Group on Business and Human Rights “impressed” with Fair Food Program, says “merits of [FFP] are clear” for workers, business!

U.N. Working Group on Business and Human Rights “impressed” with Fair Food Program, says “merits of [FFP] are clear” for workers, business!

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UN: Fair Food Program "innovatively addresses core worker concerns," has "independent and robust enforcement mechanism," addresses "governance gaps relating to labour issues" At a press conference in Washington, DC, last week, the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights issued its formal end-of-visit statement publicizing the Group's initial findings from its 10-day mission to the United States. The goal of >> Read More
Myth #2: The market price, by definition, is a “fair price”

Myth #2: The market price, by definition, is a “fair price”

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Myth #2: The market price, by definition, is a "fair price" It is time, again, to return to our our continuing series, "The Three Founding Myths of Corporate-Led Social Responsibility," the series we began in response to Ahold's statement on the Campaign for Fair Food, issued in the run up to its recent shareholders' meeting in Amsterdam. When we launched the series, we wrote: >> Read More
UN expert group on business and human rights to visit Immokalee, CIW!

UN expert group on business and human rights to visit Immokalee, CIW!

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UN delegation to spend two days in Immokalee, meet with Fair Food Program participants On Friday and Saturday of this week, a delegation from the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights will visit Immokalee "to learn first-hand about opportunities and challenges in ensuring business respect for human rights in the United States," in the words of Michael Addo, one >> Read More
Speech by CIW’s Lucas Benitez at United Nations on Occasion of First World Social Justice Day

Speech by CIW’s Lucas Benitez at United Nations on Occasion of First World Social Justice Day

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I first want to thank Mrs. Robinson and the other organizers for holding this event. It is a tremendous honor to be invited to address an audience such as this in a setting as inspiring as the United Nations. I come here today representing the CIW, a community-based labor organization rooted in the town of Immokalee, Florida. Immokalee is a >> Read More

United Nations Independent Expert on Extreme Poverty Visits Immokalee

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[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="288"] On Wednesday, October 26, a standing room only crowd gathered at the CIW to greet the United Nations' Independent Expert on Extreme Poverty, Dr. Arjun Sengupta, who came to Immokalee accompanied by two colleagues for a day-long visit as part of his work documenting extreme poverty in the US and challenging its causes through the UN >> Read More