Disappointment as MDG Target is Delayed In the Millenium Development Goals of 2000 Australia made a commitment that it would raise overseas aid to 0.5% of Gross National Income (GNI) by 2015.  In the 2012 Federal Budget announced on May 8, despite a ...

Your Purchase Can Make a Difference Fair Trade Fortnight gives each of us the opportunity to celebrate the life-changing difference our fair trade choice makes for millions of developing country farmers, producers, their families and communities. Buyi...

Australia Can Make a Difference "Over the past few years Australian aid has contributed to halving the number of people worldwide living without clean water. It has also helped thousands more girls – both in neighbouring countries and beyond – to ...

Risks of Human Trafficking and Forced Labour with London 2012 The Slavery-Free London Campaign aims to draw attention to the risks of human trafficking and forced labour in the UK and overseas associated with the London 2012 Games, and help us ensure ...

London 2012 Organisers Agree to Protect Workers' Rights The Playfair 2012 Campaign  is calling on the organisers of the London 2012 Olympics and global sportswear brands to ensure that workers producing sportswear and souvenirs with the Olympics logo...

FAIRTRADE Easter Eggs Much of the world’s chocolate is produced using cocoa beans that have been harvested by trafficked children or forced labour. The West African countries of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana are two of the largest producers and exporte...

Cotton Picking in Uzbekistan Uzbekistan is the world’s sixth largest producer of cotton, and the third largest exporter. For decades it has used forced labour of schoolchildren, college and university students to harvest cotton by hand.Each year ove...

Campaign to Stop the Traffik - London 2012 Stop the Traffik have called on the hospitality industry to make sure there is no room for trafficking of human beings in their establishments during the London 2012 Olympics. Further information about the...

Write a letter to the Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs (Honourable Kevin Rudd) to urge the Australian Government to increase aid for gender perspectives in all programs and policies. Download letter (.docx 16KB) Download letter (.pdf 48KB)

Call for Action on Behalf of Rizana Nafeek An Open Letter to President Mahinda Rajapakse The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) draws your attention to the appeal made in 2007 into the case of Rizana Nafeek, who went to Saudi Arabia as a maid w...

On 22 September 2010, Minister for Foreign Affairs Kevin Rudd addressed the High-Level Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York to present Australia's statement on progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).The M...

FairWear Australia: Stopping the exploitation of Homebased Outworkers In this July 2010 Newsletter: FairWear and Outworker Advocates appearing at Exchange for Change this week A Fair School Wear campaign success New accreditations to Ethical...

Link between poverty & Trafficking ACRATH letter to Mr Bob McMullan MHR (Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance) regarding Millennium Development Goals.

Making a difference to the lives of some of the world’s poorest communities is as easy as holding a Coffee Break. Coffee Break is a morning or afternoon tea event that hundreds of Australians will hold during Fairtrade Fortnight (1-16 May). Org...

Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women is a global call for action. Say NO records what individuals, organizations and governments worldwide are doing to end violence against women. Whether you volunteer at a shelter, donate, reach out to st...

Kim's Wild Books Campaign I am marking this day by liberating over 100 new books ‘into the wild’ using bookcrossing.com. Books will be left in public places all over Australia. Each book has been labelled with a unique BookCrossing ID number ...

Join CBIS and encourage hotels to take action to fight the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Download a letter to bring to hotels, or cut and paste the text of the letter. Read the full story here..

Raise your hand, Sign The Body Shop petition Working alongside their campaign partners ECPAT and the Somaly Mam Foundation, The Body Shop is launching a petition calling upon governments to give children greater protection against trafficking. Fi...

People shouldn't be bought & sold Strong international protocols are needed to fight the widespread web of trafficking. Join us in asking governments around the world to commit to a review of the main protocol (the Palermo Protocol) that deals w...

Chain Store Reaction is an open letter to the producers of your favorite products. We are asking them to promise to investigate slavery in their product chains and to clean it up where they find it. Only you can start a chain store reaction. It starts ...

Nestlé's only traffik free chocolate: 4-fingered Kit-Kat. Nestlé's other chocolatey products may use child trafficked labour! For more background information watch this film: The Dark Side of Chocolate /Schmutzige Schokolade

It's shocking. Hilton, one of the most renowned hotel chains in the world, could be complicit in child sexual exploitation, in their own facilities! All over the world, trafficked women and girls are forced into sexual exploitation in hotels right i...