Fair Trade
The Fair Trade movement has become a powerful force in fighting injustices that are a result of free trade policies. When it emerged, in the early 1970s, few imagined it would ever be more than a form of charity, aimed at a dedicated few. Today, everyone can buy Fair Trade goods and it is becoming increasingly popular for people to buy with a conscience. One in five cups of coffee drunk in Britain is fairly traded; so are half the Bananas eaten in Switzerland. Five million producers in Africa, Latin America and Asia benefit from Fair Trade terms. In the west it's the fastest growing retail area - expanding by 20-30% a year since 2000.
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Background Information
Free trade demands cheap labour
The call for cheap labour is becoming louder and louder in today’s world of free trade and economic liberalisation. In many developing countries this has a disturbing affect on human rights and especially labour rights....
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Fair Trade and Labour Rights
A product merits to be called ‘traded fairly’ if each part of the supply chain got a fair deal. Both those who grow (the small-scale farmers, that grow coffee, cocoa or cotton, for example) and those who produce (coffee roasters, etc) are paid a decent price for their work. As a result they are able to make a living without having to struggle for survival each day. A fair price is one that is above the prices on the world market, which are artificially kept low by subsidies of industrialised nations to their domestic products....
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