Make Trade Fair
http://www.maketradefair.com/en/index.php?file=03042002121618.htm&cat=2&subcat=6&select=1

Oxfam's Campaign
Make Trade Fair aims to change world trade rules so that trade can make a real difference in the fight against global poverty. The campaign's main goals include:

• Ending the use of conditions attached to IMF-World Bank programmes which force poor countries to open their markets regardless of the impact on poor people.
• Improving market access for poor countries and ending the cycle of subsidised agricultural over-production and export dumping by rich countries. In addition, changing WTO rules so that developing countries can protect domestic food production.
• Creating a new international commodities institution to promote diversification and end over-supply in order to raise prices to levels consistent with a reasonable standard of living for producers, and changing corporate practices so that companies pay fair prices.
• Establishing new intellectual-property rules to ensure that poor countries are able to afford new technologies and basic medicines, and that farmers are able to save, exchange, and sell seeds.
• Prohibiting rules that force governments to liberalise or privatise basic services that are vital for poverty reduction.
• Enhancing the quality of private-sector investment and employment standards.
• Democratising the WTO to give poor countries a stronger voice.
• Changing national policies on health, education, and governance so that poor people can develop their capabilities, realise their potential, and participate in markets on more equitable terms.

The existing trade system is indefensible and unsustainable. No civilised community should be willing to tolerate the extremes of prosperity and poverty that are generated by current trade practices.