what are we calling for?

Trade is a powerful force. It could play an important part in reducing poverty and improving people's quality of life worldwide. But the rules governing international trade are currently biased in favour of the richest nations and companies. Poor countries, and the environment, are being harmed.

The Trade Justice Movement is calling on the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to take a lead at the World Trade Organisation Ministerial Meeting in Cancun, Mexico, to:

• Insist that the World Trade Organisation's remit is not expanded to include new issues such as investment.
• Stop forcing poor countries to open their markets; and instead to champion poor countries' right to manage their own economies.
• Regulate big business and their investments to ensure people and the environment come before profits.
• Stop rich countries promoting the interests of big business through trade interventions that harm the poor and the environment.
• Ensure trade policy is made in a fair, transparent and democratic way.

The Trade Justice Movement is a fast-growing group of more than 40 UK organisations. Together we are campaigning for trade justice - not free trade - with the rules weighted to benefit poor people and the environment.

ActionAid, ACTSA, ADRA-UK, Baby Milk Action, Banana Link, CAFOD, Campaign Against the Arms Trade, CARE International UK, Catholic Institute for International Relations, Christian Aid, Fairtrade Foundation, Find Your Feet, Friends of the Earth, Greenbelt Festival, Harvest Help, MAYC, Methodist Relief & Development Fund, National Federation of Women's Institutes, National Justice and Peace Network, National Union of Students, Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign, One World Action, Oxfam, Peace Child International, People & Planet, Peru Support Group, Rugmark UK, Save the Children, SCIAF, Scottish Catholic Justice & Peace Commission, SPEAK, Student Christian Movement, Tearfund, Tools for Self Reliance, Traidcraft, TUC, UNISON, Unitarian Office of Social Responsibility, United Reformed Church, VSO, War on Want, Women's Environmental Network, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, World Development Movement, and World Vision UK