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Trade Aid And World Envirnment Day
Thursday, 29 May 2008, 12:52 am | Trade Aid
What do thirty pieces of junk art and the Green Ribbon Awards have in common? They both involve New Zealanders with a desire to do right by the environment. More >>
Serious Coffee and Silly Antics
Monday, 5 May 2008, 5:07 pm | Trade Aid
Fair trade roasters from Trade Aid, Hummingbird, Underground, Switch Expresso, Upshot and Izon Coffee will be pitting themselves against one another in an event for Fair trade fortnight, (3-16th May) happening in the Cashel Mall from 8-9am tomorrow, (Tuesday ... More >>
A Fortnight Can Make A Difference
Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 5:18 pm | Trade Aid
The first fortnight of May (3 May – 18 May) is a time to make a real difference to the lives of disadvantaged producers by supporting Trade Aid and joining in the celebrations for this year’s Fair Trade Fortnight. More >>
The uplifting story of the discarded juice packet
Tuesday, 29 April 2008, 4:18 pm | Trade Aid
What do discarded juice packets, fashionable bags and survivors of sexual exploitation have in common? They are all concerned, one way or another, with environmental justice. And as environmental justice is the theme of this year’s Fair Trade Fortnight (3-18 ... More >>
Will There Be Christmas In The Holy Land?
Friday, 21 December 2007, 10:34 am | Trade Aid
Christmas is a time for food and lots of it. However one food line that that won’t be available this Christmas is couscous from the Gaza Strip in Palestine. Through no fault of the wheat growers or the women’s cooperatives that process it, the ... More >>
Buy Christmas gifts that make a difference
Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 4:58 pm | Trade Aid
Whilst we enjoy giving and receiving gifts this Christmas, many artisans and producers from around the world will not. For the artisans affected by the recent cyclones in Bangladesh or Palestinian oil producers who face embargoes on their products, ... More >>
Now The People Have Awoken: Venezuela's Revolution
Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 2:19 pm | Trade Aid
Made by two local directors Ricardo Restrepo (Colombia/New Zealand) and Julia Capon (New Zealand) who went to film the Venezuelan elections in December 2006 with a solidarity group from Australia and New Zealand. Come along on Wednesday the 12th to hear about ... More >>
New Zealanders want slavery in products banned
Thursday, 16 August 2007, 9:47 am | Trade Aid
It’s unanimous – New Zealanders don’t believe in slavery… although how are our cheap products made? and how would we know if we are supporting slavery? These are questions that have been raised over the last seven weeks since Trade Aid released ... More >>
New Zealanders want slavery in products banned
Thursday, 16 August 2007, 9:22 am | Trade Aid
It’s unanimous – New Zealanders don’t believe in slavery… although how are our cheap products made? and how would we know if we are supporting slavery? These are questions that have been raised over the last seven weeks since Trade Aid released ... More >>
Slave Trade Still Exists
Wednesday, 18 July 2007, 11:39 am | Trade Aid
The Abolitionist William Wilberforce appears in cinemas across the country this week in the epic drama Amazing Grace which celebrates the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade through the British Parliament. Now 200 years on, after watching Amazing ... More >>
Trade Aid Coffee Hits Ten Million
Tuesday, 12 September 2006, 3:08 pm | Trade Aid
Trade Aid, New Zealand’s leading fair trade importer, can provide more than ten million reasons why it has just completed a highly successful year of trading. More >>
There Is Nothing Magical About Child Labour
Monday, 5 September 2005, 4:15 pm | Trade Aid
As Tim Burton releases his new film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in NZ on September 8, US chocolate makers miss a deadline for putting an end to child labour on cocoa farms in Western Africa. More >>
Golden Coffee Beans
Wednesday, 10 November 2004, 9:00 am | Trade Aid
Pete Davies of Underground Coffee Company, turned his fair trade organic beans to gold over labour weekend at the inaugural BP New Zealand Coffee Festival and Awards held in Taupo. More >>
Shoe revolution At Fashion Week
Wednesday, 13 October 2004, 9:58 am | Trade Aid
From the glamour of AIR NEW ZEALAND FASHION WEEK comes a bold social statement about who we tread on when we tie our laces. More >>
Campaigning on the catwalk
Wednesday, 13 October 2004, 9:04 am | Trade Aid
During the AIR NZ FASHION WEEK from 17 Oct chalkydigits models will be wearing the world’s most revolutionary shoes – “No Sweat” sneakers. Imported by Trade Aid and worn by the catwalk models, the message from the local designer is “we care what ... More >>
Tales From The Hands Of Tibetan Weavers
Thursday, 12 August 2004, 11:29 am | Trade Aid
If a picture paints a thousand words, a Tibetan carpet certainly tells a thousand tales. More >>
Death by coffee in Nicaragua
Wednesday, 6 August 2003, 10:22 am | Trade Aid
Trade Aid Campaigns Manager Simon Gerathy today called on the New Zealand government to take concrete action to support fair trade coffee. “We have received reports of deaths during a coffee workers’ march in Nicaragua. The coffee crisis is something ... More >>
Trade Aid reflects on International Fair Trade Day
Friday, 16 May 2003, 10:13 am | Trade Aid
Trade Aid stores around the country are asking Kiwis to reflect on their shopping behaviour, as New Zealand kicks off International Fair Trade Day, on Saturday, May 17. More >>
1 out of 10 for Starbucks effort
Thursday, 24 April 2003, 1:41 pm | Trade Aid
The move by Starbucks to offer certified fair trade coffee rates a 1 out of 10, according to Trade Aid, New Zealand’s fair trade organisation. Campaigns Manager, Simon Gerathy said it was hard to see the Starbucks launch as anything but a cynical move to appease ... More >>
There is a better way to help coffee farmers
Thursday, 19 September 2002, 10:39 am | Trade Aid
Oxfam’s suggestion of destroying world stockpiles of coffee is a short term solution that doesn’t address the fundamental inequities of the free market system that has failed small coffee farmers all over the world. More >>
