Rainbow Life Blog

Why Fair Tourism? Many Karenni people have fled from Myanmar to Thailand due to the violence in their country. They were given three options: they could stay in the refugee camp (without freedom of movement), resettle abroad (to countries like Australia, Finland and the Netherlands) or move to villages open to tourism. Many chose...

It can take 11,000 litres of water to produce just one pair of jeans and the mass dumping of dye chemicals in rivers in key denim manufacturing countries is turning the water an unnatural shade of blue, according to Canadian environmental documentary ‘River Blue’. What's the solution?

Realise the power of your purchase to directly change lives. To literally put food on the table or send a kid to school or provide a village with a sanitary toilet; to stamp out sweatshops, modern day slavery, and child labour because for the companies that are vying for our money it just isn’t worth it...

World Turtle Day is World Turtle Week at Rainbow Life. Read on to find out why….  Turtles are magnificent creatures that belong to one of the oldest reptile groups in the world - which makes them significantly older than snakes, crocodiles, and alligators. These creatures date back to the time of the dinosaurs, over...

The term sweatshop is one of those familiar words that is bandied about quite liberally without many of us truly understanding what it means. We know it is not good, and definitely not fair, but what exactly is it, and is there much we can do about it?

The principles of fair trade mean that producers can engage with companies on fair terms, receive fair payment for their goods and work in safe conditions. Moving away from exploitative trading markets helps to ensure that producers benefit from income sustainability, thus supporting economic empowerment and helping to enable sustainable development.

Scotland is famous for many things, some to be proud of, some perhaps not so much. Recently however the Scottish Parliament achieved a world first in the quest to end period poverty. In the words of MSP Monica Lennon: “No one should have to worry about where their next tampon, pad or reusable is...