The UK Government wants the flawed rules that govern world trade to be extended further to cover a whole set of new issues. The World Development Movement is joining with others in the Trade Justice Movement to get our message of fair trade – not free trade – heard loud and clear down the corridors of power.
The Trade Justice Movement is calling on the UK Government to:

• Insist that the World Trade Organisation remit is not expanded to include new issues such as investment.
• Stop forcing countries to open their markets. Instead champion the right of poor countries to manage their own economy.
• Regulate big business and their investments to ensure people and the environment come before profit.
• 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.

We are also campaigning for reform of The World Trade Organisation (WTO). The WTO controls world trade rules, which are benefiting rich countries and multinational companies and are making the poor poorer. For more information see the links below and check the SLWDM News section for details of local action.

GATS
WDM is urgently challenging the World Trade Organisation’s General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). The aim of GATS is to apply free trade rules to the delivery of services around the world. The world's poor, living where provision of basic services such as water or education simply cannot be met at a profit, are most at risk from GATS. For more information see the links below and check the SLWDM News section for details of local action.

Links

World Development Movement www.wdm.org.uk

Trade Justice Movement www.tradejusticemovement.org.uk