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The launch of CI’s Global Energy Charter follows an 18-month consultation period with over 40 consumer organisations from around the world. It is a considered attempt to tackle this crucial issue head on, providing a sustainable energy solution for consumers everywhere. Read more and follow the Charter's creation... New CI Director General outlines the challenges facing the global consumer movementJoost Martens has taken up the post of Consumers International Director General. He joins CI from Oxfam, where he has been Regional Director for Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean for the past eight years. One of Joost first actions as DG has been to post his thoughts on the CI blog: "Whether it’s food prices or the financial crisis, social responsibility or corporate accountability, consumer rights are at the very heart of the big issues shaping the world’s future". Have your say: Read Joost's thoughts on the major issues facing CI in full and join the debate on the CI blog. More sugar than a doughnut, as salty as seawaterConsumers International launches Cereal Offences: A wake-up call on the marketing of unhealthy food to children - a new report based on the results of a global study into breakfast cereals. The damning findings reveal the unhealthy ingredients in some of the world's most popular children's cereals and the relentless marketing techniques to promote them. Download the report See also... Junk Food Generation; The Junk Food Trap; CI Code on Marketing Food and Alcoholic Beverages to Children Consumer protection must be centre stage in financial crisis
Empowering consumersUnderstanding the impact of our consumption choices is a vital part of securing a safe and sustainable future for all. That is why CI is working towards sustainable consumption (SC) to be part of the curriculum in every classroom. The importance of education for sustainable consumption will be highlighted as CI member organisations around the world participate in the Global Consumer Action Day on 15 October 2008. See also... Sustainable consumption; Climate change; Ethical consumerism; The Real Deal Over the tip... the sorry state of municipal services in Italy
In this month's member highlight feature, Altroconsumo, the Italian consumer organisation, holds local municipal authorities to account for their sorry record of neglect and decay.
Unhealthy cereals tests increase demands for an end to junk food marketing
The results provide further evidence to support CI's call to ban the marketing of unhealthy food and drink to children. The demands are set out in our proposed international Code to the World Health Organization. CI will publish the global findings of the cereal study in October.
Raising the consumer voice in the developing world
Caught in the junk food trap
The Junk Food Trap, a new report by Consumers International, reveals the lengths international brands such as Coca-Cola, Kellogg's, KFC, McDonald's, PepsiCo and Nestlé go to when marketing unhealthy food to children in Asia Pacific. The report accuses multinational companies of taking advantage of poor regulation at national levels and undermining efforts to curb obesity. South East Asia alone, faces an expected rise of 27.5% between 2005 and 2010 in the percentage of children who are clinically overweight - a faster increase rate than anywhere else in the world. Download the report...
Check this out before you check in... the real deal on the hotel industry
The Real Deal examines the unethical behaviour of the worst offending international hotel chains, and looks at what the industry, as well as consumers, can do to change this. Read more...
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As the world holds its breath and hopes that the financial packages brokered by the leading industrial nations can stave off the worst consequences of a global recession, it is the impact on consumers, rather than business that should take centre stage. 
Rotting rubbish, dumped cars and blighted nature reserves...
Developing consumer journalism in West Africa, raising awareness of consumer activism in Indonesia, and using radio to promote consumer rights in the Caribbean... just some of the initiatives happening as part of CI’s media capacity building project.
The hotel industry is facing a serious greenwash crisis - many international hotel chains possess some of the weakest environmental and social responsibility reporting records of any consumer industry.