7pm-midnight, Friday 4th March, 54 Student Union, Cox Street, Coventry.
Hosted by Trish Adudu (BBC Coventry and Warwickshire) the event will feature clothes from Fairtrade companies such as Emma Watson’s People Tree collection, Pants to Poverty, Gossypium, Komodo, Exclusive Roots, Made in Coventry, Monkee Genes and FiveG at Debenhams, in a catwalk show, framed by music and dance performances. Coventry University …

While fair trade has been most successful in the food industry, the fashion industry has also shown positive signs of responding to the challenges of fair trade in recent years.
The fast-paced fashion world has a seemingly unending consumer appetite for cheap clothing, making the issues of fair  tade particularly hard to address.   Millions of cotton farmers and textile workers depend …

Fair Trade is typically associated with traditional trades such as farming, textile manufacture and handicrafts, but the reality is that we source a lot more than just these goods from developing countries.
High-tech goods such as computers and mobile phones are now nearly all manufactured in developing countries such as China and South-East Asia, but unlike agricultural goods that are often …