Channel 4’s current affairs programme Dispatches has gone undercover to investigate the gold sold through some of the high street’s biggest jewellery retailers. The programme was presented by Deirdre Bounds, who went campaigning on the …
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UK jewellery giants in spotlight over dirty gold
Fair trade gold?
Ethical jewellery comes to Britain with Fairtrade gold launch
Leading British jewellers launched certified “Fairtrade” gold last Wednesday, in a bid to boost livelihoods of artisanal miners working in perilous conditions and ensure ethical standards …
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The Big and the Small
Millions of workers around the world depend on income from small-scale mining. Three new reports examine how their economic survival can be promoted, but they come from different perspectives.
The industry body, ICMM, regards …
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