Fairtrade Bananas

How Fair is Fairtrade?

Brief Analysis By Roberta Rofman on April 21, 2022 | Reading time 8 min

Fairtrade International has had an enormous contribution in putting ethical consumption on the agenda, becoming an instantly recognisable label of fairness. However, with an increasingly complicated supply chain and intensified globalisation, trade that is fair is becoming harder to ensure, despite a consumer force that is more conscious than ever. So how fair does Fairtrade continue to be?

Liberté Egalité Fraternité

France’s Islamophobia excludes Muslims from French national motto of “liberté, égalité, fraternité”

Brief Analysis By Roberta Rofman on May 17, 2021 | Reading time 5 min

“Liberté, égalité, fraternité”, translated as liberty, equality, fraternity, is the national motto driving French society and culture. A motto that is chanted and written on signs during protests to transmit the notion of freedom, something that has built France and developed its pride. A motto with the goal of uniting a diverse country that holds diverse individuals under one roof. It conveys an image of France as a place where one can live in harmony with those different from them. Everyone is free and equal in the Republic. Well, everyone except for those who are Muslim.