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Fair Trade Principles: Respect for the Environment
By Chia Hsin Wee When it comes to the values of fair trade, most people will think of fair prices, higher labour standards, and safe working conditions. More often than not, people forget that fair trade is equally invested in protecting the environment and supporting sustainability. In order to improve the living and working conditions [...]
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Fair Trade Principles: Ensuring Good Working Conditions
By Chia Hsin Wee The rights and safety of workers are often overlooked for the sake of profit. Workers are treated more like machines rather than human beings; their safety and rights are being compromised for faster production and cost reduction. In the span of three weeks, three factory workers from Foxconn China have committed [...]
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Fair Trade Principles: Payment of a Fair Price
By Chia Hsin Wee On the 24th of April, more than a thousand factory workers were killed in building collapse in Bangladesh. This disaster incited scrutiny from people around the world on the safety standards and low wages imposed by international companies. According to Kalpona Akter, executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity, [...]
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Fair Trade Principles: Creating Opportunities for Economically Disadvantaged Producers
By Chia Hsin Wee One of the key principles of fair trade is to support producers of developing countries in order to alleviate them from poverty. Fair trade gives the economically disadvantaged producers opportunities to sell their goods without having to compete with multinational rivals. Producers are given the chance to turn their lives around [...]
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Fair Trade Principles: Transparency & Accountability
By Tony Hadi “Fair Trade involves transparent management and commercial relations to deal fairly and respectfully with trading partners.” – World Fair Trade Organisation (WFTO) In the business sector, it is imperative for organisations to have a reliable and effective communication system to achieve success – the second principle of fair trade directly stems [...]
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Fair Trade Principles: Promoting Fair Trade
By Amy Lee The ninth principle of the fair trade movement is Promoting Fair Trade. Being a grass roots movement, global fair trade requires widespread awareness and support to enable great impact, and this is the principle which the Fair Trade Pop Up Shop most endeavours to encourage. Whilst the phrase ‘fair trade’ will commonly [...]
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Fair Trade Principles: Providing Capacity Building
By Amy Lee The eighth principle of Fair Trade is Capacity Building- a principle necessary to ensure that our movement and actions of today will have future, long-term positive impact on trade globally. Capacity building is essentially the ability of fair trade advocates and supporters to improve the management skills and production capabilities of small, [...]
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Fair Trade Principles: Commitment to Non Discrimination, Gender Equity and Freedom of Association
By Tania Shah One of the ten key principles that the World Fair Trade Organisation (WFTO) employs to maintain ‘fair trade’ among groups and businesses, is a commitment to equality and the freedom of association. This ensures opportunities are provided for people from all social positions, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, racial background or affiliation, [...]
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Meet the suppliers!
By Chia Hsin Wee Since the Fair Trade Pop Up shop is only a few days away, why not be a smart consumer and get to know more about the suppliers and the principles they have drawn on to ensure trade justice among poorer communities around the world. Thanks to these suppliers, consumers are more [...]
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Popping up for Fair Trade Fortnight 2013!
We are super excited to announce that the location of the Fair Trade Pop Up Shop this year will be at Shop 836 Hay Street, Perth CBD. Thanks to Bontempo Family, we were able to secure this great space, located directly across from His Majesty’s Theatre. Pop by and say hi from the 4th May [...]
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Did you manage to guess the location of our shop?
We are located at 836 Hay Street, Perth, Western Australia right opposite His Majesty's Theatre.
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