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16 Jan 2014

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Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Coalition of Immokalee Workers Announces Walmart to Join Groundbreaking Fair Food Program [USA]

Walmart today joined with its Florida tomato suppliers and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to strengthen and expand the groundbreaking Fair Food Program...“We are truly pleased to welcome Walmart into the Fair Food Program. No other company has the market strength and consumer reach that Walmart has,” said Cruz Salucio of the CIW...Alexandra Guáqueta, chair of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights [said"] “[i]t’s great to see the world’s biggest retailer, Walmart, join this kind of ground-breaking accountability arrangement.”...The Working Group noted that the Fair Food Program is closely aligned with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, endorsed by States at the UN Human Rights Council in 2011. “We are eager to see whether the Fair Food Program is able to leverage further change within participating businesses, and serve as a model elsewhere in the world,” added Ms. Guáqueta.