Aura Que New Collection Launched

Shop online for beautiful accessories – all fair trade. Check out the website for fab totes and small gift ideas.

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Eco Age Event

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Cotton On

There is a one-day conference being held in Bristol to explore cotton and the best way to move forward sustainably. The conference will be held on 9th May – so not long now.
The conference is open to everyone with an interest, from fashion students to ethical consumers, from textile manufacturers to campaigners, from clothing retailers [...]

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Fair Trade Sourcing

Do you want to learn more about Fair Trade Sourcing?
Small co-operatives all over the world are producing fashion and textile products to high standards. At the same time, co-operative and fair trade structures ensure that the benefits of sales go directly to the people, and their families, who need them the most.
The Ethical Fashion Forum [...]

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Crafternoon: cake, craft & charity

Date: Saturday 24th January 2009
Time: 2:00 – 5:00pm
Place: The Hub, 5 Torrens Street, London, EC1V 1NQ (a minute’s walk from Angel tube)
What: An opportunity to turn socks into monkeys, eat cake, meet some lovely people and learn all about SOKO* – a little ethical fashion dream which is becoming a reality in Kenya.
Materials: please bring [...]

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‘Sweatshops’ are good

This radio show was broadcast on Radio 4 on Wednesday 12 November 2008.
Prof Jagdish Bhagwati is an Indian born American economist and an expert on trade and development. He believes that the presence of multi-nationals in developing countries is a great thing for the local people and we in the West should actively seek to [...]

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