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You can now join the debate and comment on news stories and the campaign's development around the world. For instance, check out recent campaign posters by the EU-UNDP Consumer Society and Citizen Networks Project posted on billboards throughout the Ukraine - will they stop you from eating junk food?
Lego and Kellogg’s to stop sale of candy bricks
We congratulate Lego on doing the right thing, and look forward to not seeing Lego brick candy in the shops in the 2009. Find out more about all the winners of the Bad Company Awards 2008 Download the Bad Company Awards fact sheet Comment on all the winners on the CI blog Towards a global energy solution
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... Supporting consumer journalism in West Africa
Recently, this included helping our member organisation in Benin, LCDB, host a nationwide consumer journalism competition. Visit the Member Information section for more CI capacity building initiatives. 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
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.
Caught in the junk food trapThe 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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Earlier this month, CI gave Lego and Kellogg's the Blindingly Obvious Danger Award for their silly idea to market candy in the shape of Lego bricks. Following the Bad Company Award announcements, Lego have released a statement to assure consumers that the product is 'scheduled to be discontinued at the end of this calendar year'.
Consumers International’s Media Capacity Building project aims to help consumer groups in the global south make effective use of communication opportunities to campaign. 
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...
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.