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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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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...

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

The Scottish Governments National Action Plan on FGM: Progression and Cooperation In February 2016, the Scottish Government published their national action plan to prevent and eradicate female genital mutilation (FGM) 1 . The practice has been outlawed in Scotland since 1985 and is described as a mark of violence against women and girls. Misleadingly FGM is solely attached to religion, and common misconception fails to attach the cultural importance of the practice to regional tradition. Those particularly affected are located in the east, west and north-eastern countries of Africa 2 . It is also common in some regions of the Middle East. FGM has been described by the Scottish Government’s Health and Social Care Sector as being starkly discriminative, providing no health benefits and weighted with severe long-term consequences for the victim. The physical aspect of FGM is summarised as follows: “all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other...