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The Who pays? campaign takes a massive step forward – as the official government inquiry slams supermarkets and calls for a watchdog. Exactly what we’ve been calling for!
Keeping up the pressure on competition watchdog
As the Competition Commission reports its provisional findings, ActionAid present over 25,000 signatures demonstrating public concern over supermarket behaviour and calling for an improved code of conduct.
Who pays? - The real cost of cheap school uniforms
As children return to school this September, we report on the workers making their school uniforms, many of whom only get to see their own children once or twice a year.
Endangered tribes challenge UK mining giant
Recently tribal leaders from Orissa, India, travelled to London to tell shareholders of mining giant, Vedanta Resources plc, how their way of life is under threat because of the activities of the company.
Gertruida Baartman attends Tesco's AGM
Gertruida is a single mother with three children. She earns just 38p per hour picking fruit that ends up on Tesco's shelves. Gertruida came to the UK for the second year in a row to attend Tesco’s AGM and ask for better pay and working conditions.
Loyalty card launched by local ActionAid groups
Shoppers in Leeds, Shrewsbury and Swansea were asked to show their loyalty to the people in developing countries who produce the food and clothes they buy in the supermarket, by signing up to our loyalty card with a difference.
Thousands of tea plantation workers in India are facing low wages, job insecurity and malnutrition due to the Indian tea crisis, which is benefiting multinational corporations but harming poor communities.
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