News Archive 2004
Challenge to Tony Blair to sign global poverty pledge (28 December 2004)
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Trade Traps: Bullied Africa in Mandelson poverty threat (17 December 2004)
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Tony Blair gets a grilling for breakfast as campaigners say we won't make poverty history without trade justice (13 December 2004)
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Oxfam: unfair sugar trade rules are making British Sugar fat profits (10 December 2004)
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Mandelson targeted over corporate lobbying on first day of work as EU Trade Commissioner (22 November 2004)
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Will business be pulling Mandelson's strings in Europe? Friends of the Earth and the World Development Movement call for a rethink of the appointment of Peter Mandelson as Trade Commissioner (8 November 2004)
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New Oxfam report details how Europe has turned its back on some of the world's poorest countries by proposing inadequate reforms to its unfair and harmful sugar regime (22 November 2004)
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Where's the moral fibre? Oxfam concerned US intend to defend massive cotton subsidy program causing suffering to millions of poor African farmers (18 October 2004)
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Thousands of trade campaigners challenge Labour (26 September 2004)
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Christian Aid report: Twenty years of free market dogma, pushed on poor countries by the rich, has failed developing countries by increasing poverty amongst world's poorest (23 September 2004)
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World Trade Watchdog Confirms EU Sugar Subsidies Illegal (8 September 2004)
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World trade body set to outlaw West's farm subsidies: Oxfam says cotton and sugar rulings will vindicate poor countries (6 September 2004)
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Political cartoon exhibition draws attention to trade justice (31 August 2004)
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Stars vote for Trade Justice at V2004 Festival: Jamie Cullum, Basement Jaxx and the Divine Comedy among celebrities showing their support for the Trade Justice Movement's new campaign (23 August 2004)
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Oxfam calls on Peter Mandelson to deliver EU trade reforms that help poor countries (20 August 2004)
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Cafod: Mandelson's "fairer world" must come first in new post as EU Trade Commissioner (12 August 2004)
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EU sugar subsidies ruled illegal: Oxfam and WWF say historic WTO ruling sounds death knell for unfair regime (4 August 2004)
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Trade demo targets Labour Party Conference (4 August 2004)
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Christian Aid: WTO agreement offers little hope to developing countries (3 August 2004)
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Cafod: Loopholes undermine WTO deal for the world's poor (2 August 2004)
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WDM says trade deal in Geneva is a blueprint for deeper trade liberalisation that will not deliver poverty reduction to the poorest countries (1 August 2004)
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The WTO delivers an unfair deal for poor countries (2 August 2004)
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Oxfam: Trade talks move inches but miles remain (31 July 2004)
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ActionAid: WTO's new draft negotiation framework at Geneva General Council meeting proves rich countries are unwilling to bring about real change in world trade rules (31 July 2004)
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Oxfam condemns proposed trade deal for failing poor countries (30 July)
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Oxfam accuses Tate & Lyle of making millions in export subsidies at the expense of poor farmers (28 July 2004)
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Oxfam: US blocking trade deal at WTO (28 July)
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Oxfam: Behind closed doors trade talks turn sour (27 July)
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WTO General Council meeting in Geneva sees poor countries under intense pressure to accept rich country proposals (27 July 2004)
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Divide and rule: ActionAid report exposes rich countries' attempts to control trade talks on eve of the WTO General Council meeting (26 July)
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Cafod: Progress stalled at the WTO (19 July 2004)
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WDM describes the UK Government's White Paper on Trade and Investment as "ideologically Thatcherite" (6 July 2004)
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CAFOD: UK Government too optimistic to think that the principle of 'same direction, different speeds' in trade policy will reduce poverty in very poor countries (6 July 2004)
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Government trade white paper prescribes more of the same medicine: Latest thinking on how trade can be made to work better for poor countries offers a different take on an old argument, says Christian Aid (6 July 2004)
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Ronan Keating calls for Trade Justice after visit to Ghana (6 June 2004)
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"WTO: Hands off our food," says Friends of the Earth (25 May 2004) » Read more
ActionAid: 'Don't sell out poor' trade alert (14 May 2004) » Read more
Doha round negotiations cannot progress via exclusive, by-invitation-only trade meetings » Read more
Oxfam reveal how British companies are making millions from a skewed sugar regime that hurts poor countries (14 April 2004) » Read more
MPs debate trade justice in House of Commons (9 March 2004) » Read more
EU plans for WTO expansion dealt fatal blow (19 February 2004) » Read more
Unethical businesses escape regulation as government kills bill (30 January 2004) » Read more
CAFOD trade justice report: dire working conditions in computer production (26 January 2004) » Read more
World Social Forum says 'yes' to trade justice (26 January 2004) » Read more
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