Fair Trade Declaration - UNCTAD XI
São Paolo, Brazil, June 13-18, 2004
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Proposals Notebook for the XXI Century
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World Social Forum 2004 - Summary of the Fair Trade Movement?s Activities
For the first time since its creation in 2001, the World Social Forum was held in 2004 outside of Brazil, taking place in India, a country where many social movements originating from a variety of trends and traditions are being developed. Among these trends, Fair Trade is ever expanding, reaching hundreds of handicrafts producers who are selling their products in Fair Trade networks....
René Audet
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Report of the seminar on Social Responsibility of SMEs for Development of People's Economy
Ben Quiñones
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THE ASIAN SME FORUM 2004
The Asian SME Forum 2004 will be organized by the Asian Coalition for SME Development in Kunming, China on 23-25 June 2004. The theme of the forum is "Fair Trade and Solidarity Finance for Socially Responsible SMEs".
Benjamin Quiñones
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Proposition of the Fair Trade Workshop - World Social Forum 2004
The Fair Trade Workshop aims to propose permanent debate spaces and to link Fair Trade actors and other movements of people’s economy. Considering the great level of participation of the Fair Trade networks and organisations at the next WSF, the Workshop decided to put forward the TRANSVERSALITY of Fair Trade with other issues and movements. We intend to link Fair Trade actors with other actors, focussing on common problems and strategies.
This document summerizes the four events the Fair trade Workshop proposed for the WSF 2004: Fair Trade and Food Sovereignty, Fair Trade and Local development, Adding Value to Fair Trade relationships, Campaigning for fair trade regulations at international and local levels.
Fair Trade Workshop
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World Social Forum 2003 - Summary
Summary of the round table and workshops on
Fair Trade, Consumer Responsibility and Cooperative Movement>BR>
In the framework of the 3rd World Social Forum held in Porto Alegre (Brazil) on January 23 to 28, 2003, a round table (gathering 6 participants with an audience of 800 people) and 5 workshops (of 30 to 50 people) on Fair Trade, consumer responsibility and the cooperative movement, have been presented at the WFS by the Fair Trade Workshop of the Socio-Economy of Solidarity Workgroup of the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World and by the Citizen mobilisation in the economy group (France).
The round table and the workshops benefited from the participation of experiences of several continents (Latin and North America, Europe, Asia) and of discussions of high quality, consigned by reporters in every session.
Fair Trade Workshop
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India -WTO. The textile and clothing sector
Textile is a major sector for the Indian economy and for employment. However it meets numerous difficulties in reaching developed countries' markets. The article shows how developed countries have failed to meet commitments in WTO to liberalize sectors in which developed countries are interested in, like textiles and agriculture, using different types of measures and instruments, such as anti-dumping laws and rules of origin. The author encourages developing countries to find innovative solutions to reach an international market that is evolutive, based on Fair Trade.
Arun Raste (IRFT)
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Contributions to the World Social Forum : EMA (India)
Speech of Swapna Das
Swapna Das
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Contributions to the World Social Forum : IRFT (India)
Gist of the speech of Arun Raste Director International Resources for Fairer Trade India
Arun Raste
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2003 World Social Forum
Summary of the round table and workshops on
Fair Trade, Consumer Responsibility and Cooperative Movement>BR>
In the framework of the 3rd World Social Forum held in Porto Alegre (Brazil) on January 23 to 28, 2003, a round table (gathering 6 participants with an audience of 800 people) and 5 workshops (of 30 to 50 people) on Fair Trade, consumer responsibility and the cooperative movement, have been prepared by the Fair Trade Workshop of the Socio-Economy of Solidarity Workgroup of the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World and by the Citizen mobilisation in the economy group (France).
The round table and the workshops benefited from the participation of experiences of several continents (Latin and North America, Europe, Asia) and of discussions of high quality, consigned by reporters in every session.
Fair Trade Workshop
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Programme for the 2003 World Social Forum
Programme of round tables and workshops for the 2003 World Social Forum. Part of the general programme on economy of solidarity.
Fair Trade Workshop
Position on Globalization
Position on Globalization of the African Steering Committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. The issue of international trade is addressed in this paper.
African Steering Committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development
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Fair Trade Forum - Outline Document
By putting producers from the South and consumers from the North directly in contact with each other, and guaranteeing that distributors, will respect certain economic and social criteria, Fair Trade seeks to create a more equitable share of aggregate value between producer and importers and to assure a greater stability of prices and income for the producers, thus allowing them to obtain a better standard of living.
However, the development of Fair Trade raises certain questions
- How can we assess the impact of Fair Trade?
- What should our definition of Fair Trade be, in the light of the relationship between the methods of fair trade and other methods of solidarity?
- Does Fair Trade contribute to strengthen local solidarity?
- Will the movement for Fair Trade be able to defend and spread the right to information, for both the producer and the consumer?
- ¿What should the links be between this movement and the distribution network ?
- ¿Is it able to influence public politics?
Fair Trade Workshop
Fair Trade and Ethical Consumption in the Alliance for a Responsible and United World
, 1999
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Fundación Consumidor Conciente
This text presents the objectives of the "Fundación Consumidor Consciente". It analyses the differents ways of buying products(solidarity, rationnal, conscious), its instruments and long-term objectives.
