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Rico

Documentary, Homelessness, Human Rights, Poverty, Short < 10m, Video

Rico, a man living on the streets, seeks to find forgiveness from his past, and hope for his...

Stick with Foncho to make bananas fair

http://foncho.fairtrade.org.uk/

White Gold: The True Cost of Cotton

Business, Child Labour, Child Rights, Clothing & Textiles, Documentary, Human Rights, International Trade, Labour Rights, Poverty, Safety, Short < 10m, Sustainability, Video, Water

This award-winning film by EJF documents how at the forefront of global cotton production, Uzbekistan’s human rights and environmental record lags far behind the rest of the world. For more information on the true cost of cotton, download EJF’s report...

“Only through collective action can we address such far reaching issues as poverty and growing inequality, climate change, chronic poverty and major health challenges, such as the Ebola outbreak in West Africa”
– Ban Ki-moon

The Revolutionary Optimists

Citizenship, Disease, Health, Poverty, Video, Website

Children are saving lives in the slums of Kolkata. Amlan Ganguly doesn’t rescue slum children; he empowers them to become change agents, battling poverty and transforming their neighborhoods with dramatic results. Filmed over the course of several years, The...

2014 is the International Year of Family Farming

Business, Fairtrade, Food & Cuisine, Human Rights, International Day, Poverty, Sustainability, Video

Have you ever wondered who produces the food that reaches your table? 8 out of 10 people who produce food in Latin America and the Caribbean are family farmers. Family Farming is a way of classifying agricultural, forestry, fishing, pastoral and aquaculture...

Thomas Piketty’s “Capital In The Twenty-First Century” Explained

Business, Democracy, Economics, Freedom, Global Citizenship, Human Rights, Political, Poverty, Website

A Piketty guide for lifelong learners. When Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” was published earlier this year, it was something of a sensation. That’s no small feat for a chart-heavy doorstop on “the dismal science” of economics. A fair portion of...

Wearable impact: Ethical fashion explained

http://www.whydev.org/wearable-impact-ethical-fashion-explained/

While the train runs

Child Labour, Child Rights, Disease, Family, Health, Homelessness, Human Rights, Literacy, Poverty, Safety, Short < 10m, Video

Meherunnesa is a ten years old girl that lives by a rail tracks slum in the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The train is a ticking clock for all human activities. When Meherun is not playing, she is selling jasmine necklaces at the local traffic light. On an ordinary day...

Zewdu the street child

Child Labour, Child Rights, Homelessness, Human Rights, Literacy, Poverty, Safety, Short < 10m, Video

Zewdu is a street child that sells chewing gums and sleeps under a car in the city of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. One day a foreign tourist gives him by mistake a larger amount of money then the one he was asking for, he decides to spend that money to go back to the...

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Stick with Foncho to make bananas fair

White Gold: The True Cost of Cotton

The Revolutionary Optimists

2014 is the International Year of Family Farming

Thomas Piketty’s “Capital In The Twenty-First Century” Explained

Wearable impact: Ethical fashion explained

While the train runs

Zewdu the street child

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