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Help End Sweatshop Conditions and Modern-Day Slavery in the Agricultural Industry

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a grassroots farmworker organization based in South Florida, has launched a national petition campaign calling on Burger King and other food industry leaders to improve the wages and working conditions of farmworkers, and to support an industry-wide effort to end human rights violations and modern-day slavery in Florida's fields.

http://www.fairfoodnation.org/petition

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Big Noise Campaign for trade justice

The global Big Noise petition represents the voices of millions of people around the world who are calling for new, fair trade rules that will make a real and positive difference in the fight against poverty. More than 17 million people across the world have signed up so far. You can help make it the biggest petition ever. (Oxfam, 3/3/08)

http://www.oxfam.org.nz/whatwedo.asp?s1=What%20we%20do&s2=Issues%20we%20work%20on&s3=Make%20Trade%20Fair&s4=Take%20action&s5=Join%20the%20Big%20Noise

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Collision Course: Free trade's free ride on the global climate (PDF)

By Andrew Simms, New Economics Foundation (2000). Economic activity can cause environmental degradation, it is clear. But just how great is the impact of international trade on the global environment? This study focuses on the extent to which the transportation of goods around the world increases greenhouse gases and leads directly to climate change. (id21)

http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/uploads/doc_1011200072237_3192%20text.art.pdf

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Corporate Conquest: Why the UK and its EU partners must stop forcing EPAs upon developing countries

The European Union is currently negotiating unfair trade deals with 77 developing countries from the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific region (ACP) behind closed doors. If these Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are ratified, they will have a devastating impact on poor communities and their natural resources. By forcing poor countries' farmers and industries into unfair competition with rich countries, infant industries are set to be destroyed and small farmers driven off their land. In addition, the EU is attempting to include an investment deal that would give European corporations greater rights over poor countries, despite the fact that developing countries have already rejected such a deal at world trade talks. This would pave the way for corporations to exploit natural resources with minimal regulation. (Friends of the Earth, September 2006)

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/corporate_conquest.pdf

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Debt Relief: quest for transparent arbitration

This report written by David Ugolor, examines stakeholder calls for a Fair and Transparent Arbitration (FTA) mechanism in resolving trade disputes between creditor and debtor nations; to promote global partnership and economic growth.

http://www.afrodad.org/downloads/FTA%20Nigeria%20Launch.pdf

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Fair trade and development- International Development Committee, 7th Report

A report from the House of Commons International Development Committee. It considers the growth and increased awareness of fair trade in the UK, government's approach to fair trade, impacts on producers, consumers and companies, challenges and limits to fair trade and the future role of government and donors (House of Commons, 2007).

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmintdev/356/35602.htm

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Fair Trade, Corporate Accountability and Beyond: Experiments in 'Globalising Justice'

Conference (and papers) held at the Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, December 19th - 20th 2007. In 2006 Australia/New Zealand represented the fastest growing market for Fairtrade certified products in the world. Such growth reflects rising awareness and concern for issues of human rights, social development and corporate responsibility associated with the management of global supply chains.

http://celrl.law.unimelb.edu.au/go/objectid/924A65FB-1422-207C-BA59EA197DEF279B/index.cfm

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From the slave trade to 'free' trade : How trade undermines democracy and justice in Africa (pdf)

This book questions whether trade in the era of globalisation can be 'fair' or 'just'. It draws on lessons from the slave trade and studies of the international finance institutions, providing insights into how free trade policies have a profoundly negative impact on the rights of communities, environmental sustainability and the development of democracy in Africa. (by Firoze Manji, Fahamu, 2007)

http://www.fahamu.org/downloads/tj_book_forweb.pdf

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Growth, trade, integration and policy space

This paper by Duncan Green, head of research at Oxfam Great Britain argues that a review of the impact of bilateral, regional and global trade and investment agreements is urgently required to begin to tackle the current inequities in the current global trading system against some developing economies.

http://www.progressive-governance.net/publications/publications.aspx?id=2228

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On the Margins of Profit: Rights at risk in the global economy

People in countries across the world are regularly harmed when businesses fail to respect basic human rights, according to this report by Human Rights Watch and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at New York University School of Law (February 2008).

http://hrw.org/reports/2008/bhr0208/

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Square pegs in round holes

This Oxfam report argues; 'When trade ministers from 35 countries gather in Geneva at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for what is being billed yet again as a last-ditch attempt to forge a Doha trade deal, they will be forced to meet an unwelcome guest: the 2008 US Farm Bill.' (Oxfam, July 2008)

http://www.oxfam.org/files/us-farm-bill-square-pegs-in-round-holes-0807.pdf

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Trade Justice- Christian Aid Campaign

Over one billion people are living in poverty today. And the gap between rich and poor is getting wider. The global trading system lies at the heart of this inequality. Christian Aid is campaigning to tackle the negative impact of international trade rules on the world's poorest people. Your role is vital.

http://www.christianaid.org.uk/campaign/trade/basics.htm

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Ways to Democratize the Global Economy

A list of ways in which people can work together to reform global trade rules, demand that corporations are accountable to people's needs, build strong and free labor and promote fair and environmentally sustainable alternatives. (Global Exchange)

http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/wto/tenwaystodemocratize.html

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