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Friday, 21 August 2015
Improving working conditions, preventing child labor, promote community projects – these are the goals of Fairtrade initiative for gold jewelry. Even at Christmas, there will be the first certified products from South America.
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After coffee and chocolate there should also gold with the Fairtrade label now soon. In time for the holiday shopping season, the club Fairtrade wants to pave the fair trade gold the way into jewelry stores and thus improve working conditions for miners and their families, as club spokeswoman Claudia Brück said.
First, the “mirror” had about the plans the association reported. In jewelry stores in the UK and Switzerland, consumers can buy fairly traded gold According Brück today. In Germany Fair Trade is now negotiating with refineries and jewelers. “We hope that the jewelry then you can already lie under the Christmas tree,” Bruck said.
Read more aboutThe aim of Fair Trade is to improve the very precarious working conditions of miners in small-scale gold mining and to prevent child labor. Central to this are a guaranteed minimum price, a going beyond Fairtrade premium of $ 2,000 per kilogram of gold, which is intended for community projects such as schools and health centers as well as improving operational workflow, and compliance with safety regulations. The workers were often subjected to hazardous and unsanitary conditions, emphasized the association.
The first Fairtrade producer organizations in small-scale gold sector are located in Peru and Colombia. New projects with organizations in East Africa are currently in the pilot phase, the association reported. “If today says a great jeweler, I want to change, could be the gold make available very quickly,” said Bruck. According to Fairtrade more than 100 million people worldwide are directly or indirectly from the small-scale gold mining depends.
Source: n-tv.de
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