Add your voice to those across the world demanding that Europe ’s new unfair trade deals are stopped. Send an email to new EU Trade Commissioner Baroness Ashton - ask her to be a trade hero and turn EU trade policy around! Take this action. The Trade Justice Movement along with the Fairtrade Foundation and the World Development Movement delivered thousands of your postcards to Baroness Ashton on Monday 8 June 2009 at the European Commission offices in London. See images of that handover. » Click here for more information about what we are asking for. » Click here for the pledge that MEPs can sign to call for a review to European trade policy. » Click here to take action to put the breaks on the EU-Central American trade deal. » Click here to see which MEPs signed our pledge

G20 leaders have not yet gone far enough on the fundamental changes the world needs – see Put People First’s assessment of where the G20 leaders need to go next with Obama announcing that the next G20 meeting will take place in the USA on 24-25 September in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. See the Put People First initial verdict on the outcomes of April’s summit. Click here. On trade, the G20 pushed for a conclusion to the Doha World Trade Round. See TJM’s response. On 28 March, over 35,000 people gathered in London to call on world leaders to make the fundamental changes required. Click here.

 

WTO announces first ministerial meeting on trade for 30 November 2009 May 2009: It was announced in late May 2009 that the World Trade Organisation would have its first full ministerial involving all WTO members set for 30 November-2 December 2009. Though these talks are not billed as a resumption of the Doha trade round – a round begun in 2001 but which has failed several times - it is likely to set the scene for an attempted resumption of the round in 2010 following the USA and Indian elections. Stay tuned to the website for further updates. July 2008: Collapse of Doha Round talks: 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.

The Reality of Rights – new report from CORE Coalition
LSE and the Corporate Responsibility (CORE) Coalition have released a new report revealing how UK companies get away with human rights abuses overseas as a Parliamentary Inquiry is launched. This forms part of the next phase of the campaign after successful campaigning from CORE and the Trade Justice Movement resulted in new accountability laws for companies (the Companies Act 2006). While we welcomed this legislation as a step forward towards greater accountability, it has not gone far enough to ensure that British business will work for people and planet as well as profit. We want the UK government to establish a Commission for Business, Human Rights and the Environment, to stop corporate abuse by UK companies 
– for more details click here
» Act Now! A Campaigner’s Guide to the Companies Act. 

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.