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Dr. Christian Thorun has joined the Supervisory Board of FLO-CERT. Dr Thorun is the founder and managing director of ConPolicy - an Institute for Consumer Policy. Before the founding of the institute, he worked at the Federation of German Consumer Organisations in Berlin. His responsibilities included economic policy, competition, privacy and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Furthermore, he was co-chair of the Information Society Working Group of the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) and spokesperson of the international consumer organisations in the negotiations of an international standard on social responsibility - ISO 26000. Dr Thorun holds doctoral and master degrees in International Relations from the University of Oxford. He has received a range of scholarships including the Cecil Rhodes scholarship for his studies in Oxford and an undergraduate and graduate scholarship from the German Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation. He is frequently invited as an expert on consumer policy in political hearings and is active in public debate; contributed his expertise in events organised by the EU Commission, OECD, the German Parliament and universities. He also teaches at the Quadriga Hochschule and the Quadriga Academy. Dr Thorun has two daughters and lives in Bad Honnef near Bonn. FLO-CERT certifies gold Cotapata, small-scale mining cooperative in Bolivia, has become the first organisation to receive a Fairtrade and Fairmined certificate. The organisation was certified in December 2010. Photo: ARM In February 2011 another mining cooperative, Oro Verde (Green Gold) from Consejo Comunitario in Condoto, Colombia, producing ecological gold, received its certificate. It coincided with the launch of Fairtrade and Fairmined gold jewellery in the UK market.
The first two mines that have been certified represent two distinct but typical mining schemes: Cotapata in Bolivia is a small hard-rock mine in a mountainous area close to La Paz, feeding 88 families, being formalized in a cooperative since 1991. The second, Oro Verde consists of 112 families of miners, who make their living through alluvial small-scale mining in the Chocó Region in Colombia. Both these organisation have been complying with environmental and social standards for years. The Fairtrade Certificate now improves chances for Southern producers to better access the Northern markets, without going through intermediaries who do not guarantee a fair deal. Since the Fairtrade and Fairmined Standard for Gold had been published in 2010, mining organisations from Latin America can apply for Fairtrade and Fairmined certification of gold and associated precious metal, which is silver and platinum. The gold standard has been developed in close collaboration between Fairtrade International (FLO e.V.) and the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM). Rings, bracelets and chains containing certified gold will be labeled with the first dual label: Fairtrade and Fairmined. Photo: Ronald Köpke
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