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Free2Work Featured in 30 Ways in 30 Days
As holiday shopping reaches fever pitch, Not For Sale encourages people to download and use the Free2Work App 2.0 to help them select gifts that promote and protect worker’s rights.
Free2Work recently launched a new app for iPhone & Android with a barcode scanner, making it easier for you to make informed purchasing decisions, and specifically ones that do not involve child or forced labor.
This Holiday Season, Give Two Gifts in One!
The new Not For Sale Store, which was launched last week, has a huge selection of gorgeous gifts from silk-lined handbags and designer AllSaints T-shirts, to handmade artisan scarves from India and wooden journals.
Not For Sale is encouraging shoppers to take action in the movement to re-abolish modern-day slavery by flexing their spending power in the Not For Sale Store rather than buying these gifts in larger retail outlets, many of whose supply chains are less transparent.
Free2Work featured on Global News Network
A key part of Not For Sale’s mission is to empower consumers with information so they can join the fight to end slavery. Transparency in supply chains is essential to ensuring slave labor is not used to make the products that end up in every consumer’s home. The episode, which also featured an interview with Co-Founder and President of Not For Sale Dave Batstone, focused on one of the dirtiest and degrading forms of modern-day slavery in Brazil – charcoal burning.
Free2Work Mobile App Featured on Fast Company!
The consumer information platform for iPhone and Android that increases transparency in supply chains has just been featured in the hugely respected business magazine Fast Company, which recognizes that the app is not about awareness, it’s about action.
What is the Connection Between Soccer and Slavery?
Although Japan beat the U.S.A. in the Women’s World Cup, Free2Work shows that soccer ball companies in the U.S. take the lead in terms of their policies on forced and child labor.
What do Free2Work and Harry Potter’s Luna Lovegood Have in Common?
July 14, 2011: Harry Potter actress Evanna Lynch, starring as Luna Lovegood, recently joined the “Not in Harry’s Name” campaign, urging Warner Brothers to improve the sourcing practices of Harry Potter Chocolate. The campaign, a collaboration of the Harry Potter Alliance (HPA) and International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF), references the “F” rating assigned by Free2Work and calls on Warner Brothers to make all Harry Potter Chocolate Fair Trade in an effort to stop child labor, forced labor, and trafficking in the cocoa industry.
Take Action in Observance of World Day Against Child Labor!
June 12th is World Day against Child Labor
and the International Labor Organization (ILO) has declared “hazardous child labor” as this year’s theme.
The ILO has reported that an estimated 115 million children around the world are engaged in strenuous work, depriving them of an education, health, and basic rights. More than half of these boys and girls are exposed to hazardous work environments, and are vulnerable to the worst forms of exploitation such as slavery, forced prostitution, drug trafficking, and involvement in armed conflict. This day is intended to highlight these issues and help expand the growing worldwide movement against child labor.
OECD to Finalize Policy on Conflict Minerals
May 31, 2011: Last week, political leaders met in Paris to finalize a plan to limit the use of conflict minerals, as well as address separate guidelines on corporate responsibility for multinational enterprises. The sale of conflict minerals, such as diamonds and gold, as well as those commonly used in the production of electronics, including tin ore, tungsten, casserite, and coltan, continues to finance the war between the Congolese National Army and various armed rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Over the past 14 years, atrocious crimes have been committed resulting in the deaths of an estimated six million people.
What’s in Your Easter Basket?
San Francisco, CA (April 21, 2011): This Easter, demand for retail items like Easter candy is expected to return to pre-recession levels. The Nielsen Company, a consumer research group, estimates that in the United States alone nearly 120 million pounds, or $500 million worth of candy, will be purchased in the week leading up to Easter.
