Anti poverty campaigners call on Gordon Brown to call
time on global greed. Guy Smallman/TJM/JDC
Tired of global greed hurting people and planet?
The Trade Justice Movement has joined forces with our members and a number of wider economic justice networks such as Jubilee Debt Campaign and Stamp out Poverty to call for fundamental reform of the economic system.
Sign the Petition: Tell Gordon Brown that it's time to end global greed. Add your name to thousands of others and we will present your call for fundamental change to the Prime Minister by Christmas
Click on any of the following member websites » ActionAid » Friends of the Earth » War on Want » World Development Movement
Demo outside Guildhall: Scores of demonstrators were determined that the Prime Minister hear time called on the old economic system.
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Still not too late to Stop Europe's unfair trade deals
Europe is pressing forward with new trade deals that will ruin Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific trade - and millions of people's lives. The EU's EPAs (Economic Partnership Agreements) will expose home-grown businesses and investment to unfair competition from Europeans - and could damage their jobs, livelihoods and the environment. It now appears that Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) could play a significant role in stopping these unfair trade deals being forced through.
WTO
Talks Collapse– No Deal Better Than A Bad Deal The
Trade Justice Movement believes that the real failure at the
Doha
talks, begun in 2001 and which collapsed on 29 July 2008, was the failure
of rich nations to put the interests of poor countries first – as had
been the original intention of the round. Developing countries are to be
congratulated that they held strong against intense EU and USA
pressure. »Click here to read more.
Trade Justice Movement concerns on the EU
Reform Treaty The Trade Justice Movement is concerned that the
EU Reform Treaty currently appears to prioritise trade liberalisation over a
pro-development trade policy as the guiding principle for the EU’s common
commercial policy. We want to see the EU promote a pro-development trade policy
which is coherent with the EU’s wider development objectives.
Click here to find out more. HTML / PDF
version.
Trade
Justice Action Event On 19 April 2007 the Trade Justice Movement staged a mass action
outside the German embassy in
London
and then lobbied every EU government in just one day!Click here to see what
happened.
Right Corporate Wrongs
Our campaign brings new laws for trade justice
In response to campaigning from the Trade Justice Movement and our allies, public pressure has resulted in new accountability laws for companies. The Companies Bill has concluded its passage through Parliament and has been give royal assent (as the Companies Act 2006). The Trade Justice Movement has welcomed the Companies Act as a step forward towards greater corporate responsibility, but warns the new legislation has not gone far enough to ensure that British business will work for people and planet as well as profit. »Press release
Companies Act a move forward to right corporate wrongs
»Companies
Act– an update for supporters on the outcome
