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It’s Hard to be a Youth Climate Striker

on March 07, 2022

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A Lighthouse in the Storm: The Italian Physiotherapist Providing Help and Hope to Afghans in a Time of Turmoil

on February 28, 2022

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Express Your Affection With Fair Trade Confection : ‘Supply chain Justice’s Valentines Day Campaign

on February 11, 2022

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The Scottish Governments National Action Plan on FGM: Progression and Cooperation

on February 03, 2022

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This Pride, We Need to Talk About Hungary

on June 29, 2021

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Tips On Writing An Open Letter

on February 17, 2021

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It’s Hard to be a Youth Climate Striker

In my last year of high school, I was involved in Scottish Youth Climate Strikes – a peaceful climate crisis awareness group that operated through public engagement and school strikes. It was a time in my life where I met many like minded people, learned valuable skills and was even interviewed by Sky News. Note however that I say was – shortly after starting university in 2020 I had to stop. This was due to several factors but the straw that broke the camel’s back was the issues forming within the community itself. Part of what makes the climate strike movement so powerful is the youth – these inspiring young people determined to stand up for the planet when their elders won’t. And despite their age, the attempts of solving the problem are anything but immature. Marches involving millions worldwide, eloquent call-outs of world leaders acting like children themselves, and a dignified persistence as they stand in front of renowned buildings with homemade signs every Friday for month

Express Your Affection With Fair Trade Confection : ‘Supply chain Justice’s Valentines Day Campaign

Supply Chain Justice is a student movement, based in Edinburgh University, raising awareness on human rights violations in corporate supply chains, such as unfair pay, forced child labour, slavery, and unsafe working conditions. They believe that achieving justice starts through raising public awareness and mobilising the power of consumers to fight these injustices. People are often unaware of the horrific practises behind what they consume, or so overwhelmed by the complexity of supply chains that they feel they cannot make a difference. Through their detailed research and driven campaign, Supply Chain Justice is striving to unravel these complexities and target consumer pressure. Their current focus is the highly unethical chocolate industry, which is notorious for the use of forced child labour in some of the worst working conditions possible. This is an issue in which consumer pressure could really make a tangible difference. Chocolate is widely consumed and it is a luxury product

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