Despite nearly two decades of projects aimed at improving education, increasing productivity, and implementing cocoa certification, farmers in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire still make significantly less than $2 a day. Such meager earnings leave farmers vulnerable to even minor economic or climate shocks, and fuel abuses such as child labor and labor trafficking. 

The Honorary Committee cordially invites you to celebrate the work and legacy of Interfaith Worker Justice Executive Director Kim Bobo and her outstanding contribution to some of the most critical issues of our time: economic and worker justice. Join us at a tribute event where friends, staff and colleagues share stories of her dedication and passion over the last 18 years.

Millions of food workers around the world struggle to make a living each day. In the U.S. alone, nearly 20 million people work in the food system, growing, processing, transporting, serving, cooking, & selling the food that we eat each day. Show your solidarity & support for food workers by taking part in activities and events happening across the country on this third International Food Workers Week, organized by the Food Chain Workers Alliance.

Activists from four countries staged demonstrations on October 29, 2014, outside Royal Thai Embassies on behalf of labor rights activist Andy Hall. Hall faces four criminal and civil charges brought by Natural Fruit, a Thai pineapple processing company.