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Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Hongkong Round: OXFAM Pushing for Fair Trade

If we want poor countries to open up large swaths of their economies to our corporations, why won't we let their products into our markets? Oxfam is a leader in the fight for Fair Trade: can they do something about the European farm subsidies:

Oxfam is in Hong Kong to lobby for fair trade. The charity and campaign group presented a petition signed by 17.8 million people calling for new rules that would help developing countries out of poverty. Oxfam is one of many groups which argue the global trading system is rigged in favour of the rich. WTO head Pascal Lamy said he agreed with some of what they said.

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