Behind the Barcodes

Today, European justice ministers agreed on a proposal for a law to make companies accountable for the damage they cause to people and the planet.

While inequality was already deeply unfair before the pandemic, it has now reached shocking proportions. COVID-19 has cost global workers $3.7 trillion in lost income, and women and young workers have been hardest hit. Few places reveal this trend more clearly than supermarket supply chains.

Human-rights abuses are commonplace in farms linked to major European supermarkets such as Aldi, Lidl and Tesco, new Oxfam research reveals. The organisation calls on the EU to introduce new legislation that requires companies to respect the human rights of people working in their global supply chains.

All around the world, millions of small-scale farmers, fishers and workers endure inhumane conditions to produce the food we all eat. We can change this. Join us and help us reveal what is behind the price of the food we buy. Together, we can tackle this injustice and help stop the human suffering behind our food.

Millions of women and men who produce our food are trapped in poverty and face brutal working conditions, despite billion-dollar profits in the food industry, reveals a new report published by Oxfam.