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Fair trade jewellery has been around for a while - but while those crafting it worked under Fair Trade principles, the gold, silver and precious stones they were using came from some very murky places. Informed by those in the jewellery trade that this would never change, Greg Valerio set out to prove them wrong. Fairly traded gold is now available in the UK, although the battle continues for other metals and products.

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Few can claim to have precipitated fundamental change in the jewellery business, but Greg Valerio is one of those who can. -- Gaetano Cavalieri - President of The World Jewellery Confederation Greg Valerio unveils the ugliness of the beauty business. His truth has a sting, but he also has an unflinching, contagious hope that a better world is possible. -- Shane Claiborne - Activist and founding member of The Simple Way in Philadelphia Greg is a true hero. -- Katharine Hamnett CBE - Fashion designer and campaigner A fantastic story about how one man wouldn't take no for an answer. -- Harriet Lamb CBE - CEO of Fairtrade International Fascinating and inspirational reading. Life & Work 20130101

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Greg Valerio is the founder of CRED Jewellery and co-founder of Fair Jewellery Action. After a long but successful campaign to produce fairly traded gold, he won the Global Campaigner Observer Ethical Awards for 2011. He is currently working with Fairtrade International (FLO) co-ordinating their International Fairtrade Gold programme, with Peace Direct on a Peace Gold programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo and is also an initiator and committee member of the British Jewellers Association and National Association of Goldsmiths ethics working group. He acts as an adviser to the Diamond Development Initiative.

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