CHOICE Voice

You can view speaker presentations, video interviews with delegates and speakers and congress photos online at the following places. We will be uploading speaker papers where there was no presentation as soon as we can get copies. We hope to upload audio files of all sessions in the near future. In the next few days [...]

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Peter Kell, CHOICE CEO, says:
Consumers can be – in fact already are – a powerful voice in holding corporations to account. During this congress we will hear stories from across the world of how consumers and consumer organisations are working to ensure that markets are fair, efficient and equitable.
And we will also hear about [...]

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Richard Lloyd raised the question of where to hold the next CI World Congress.
We’ve got reports on some of Monday’s fringe events. Georgina has given us the first of two accounts of the day-long campaigning event on advocacy for consumers’ intellectual property rights and Candice has given her impressions of the food marketing fringe event. [...]

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One of the fringe events on Monday 29 October will be about food marketing to children. There’ll be presentations by a number of consumer advocates from India, the UK and the USA, as well as Clare Hughes, CHOICE’s own Senior Food Policy Officer.
With the rising concern over childhood obesity in many parts of the world, [...]

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Holding Corporations to Account is the theme of the 18th Consumers International World Congress, co-hosted by CHOICE, which will be held over three days in Sydney from 29 October to 1 November 2007.Consumers International (CI) is the global federation of consumer groups dedicated to the protection and promotion of consumers’ rights worldwide. It currently represents [...]

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