Action.AUSTRALIA Global Trade Watch web: www.tradewatchoz.org Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network tel: +612 8898 6500 web: www.aftinet.org.au Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand The Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand (FTAANZ) is the Australian and Kiwi member of FLO International, which unites 23 Fairtrade producer and labelling initiatives across Europe, Asia, Latin America, North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. tel: +612 6125 5194 web: www.fta.org.au CANADA Transfair Canada TransFair Canada is a national non-profit certification and public education organization promoting Fair Trade Certified products in Canada to improve the livelihood of developing world farmers and workers. tel: +1613 563 3351 web: www.transfair.ca KAIROS Kairos (καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning the "right or opportune moment". The ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos. , Canadian Ecumenical Justice tel: +1416 463 5312 web: www.kairoscanada.org Council of Canadians tel: +1800 387 7177 web: www.canadians.org BRITAIN Trade Justice Movement (links to all major NGOs with trade campaigns) web: www.tjm.org.uk World Development Movement tel: +44 20 7737 6215 web: www.wdm.org.uk Fairtrade Foundation tel: +44 20 7405 5942 web: www.fairtrade.org.uk Pesticide Action Network tel: +44 20 7065 0905 web: www.pan-uk.org No Sweat tel: +44 7904 431 959 web: www.nosweat.org.uk Labour Behind the Label tel: +44 1603 666160 web: www.labourbehindthelabel.org IRELAND Trade Justice Ireland web: www.tradejustice.ie NEW ZEALAND/AOTEAROA Trade Aid tel: +64 3 385 3535 web: www.tradeaid.org.nz Aotearoa/New Zealand Fair Trade Association web: www.fta.org.nz Christian World Service tel: +64 3 366 9274 web: www.cws.org.nz Oxfam New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. tel: +64 9 355 6500 web: www.oxfam.org.nz United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Transfair USA TransFair USA, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is the American member of FLO International, which unites 23 Fairtrade producer and labelling initiatives across Europe, Asia, Latin America, North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. tel: +1 510 663 5260 web: www.transfairusa.org US Interfaith Trade Justice Campaign tel: +1 202 635 2757 x134 email: info@tradejusticeusa.org OTHER Focus on the Global South tel: +66 2 218 7363 web: www.focusweb.org Third World Network tel: +60 4 226 6159 web: www.twnside.org.sg Via Campesina Via Campesina (from Spanish la vía campesina, the campesino way) describes itself as "an international movement which coordinates peasant organizations of small and middle-scale producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, Africa, International farmers' network web: www.viacampesina.org The International Fair Trade Association (IFAT) tel: +310 345 53 59 14 web: www.ifat.org International Confederation of Free Trade Unions The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) was an international trade union. It came into being on December 7, 1949 following a split within the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), and was dissolved on October 31, 2006 when it merged with the World tel: +32 2 224 0211 web: www.icftu.org Friends of the Earth International Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is a federation of autonomous environmental organizations from 70 countries around the world. In contrast to many other NGOs operating internationally, Friends of the Earth is structured from the bottom up as a network of tel: +31 20 622 1369 web: www.foei.org Greenpeace International tel: +31 20 718 2000 web: www.greenpeace.org/international_en/ Seattle to Brussels Network web: www.s2bnetwork.org Resources Global Trade: Past Mistakes Future Choices by Greg Buckman, Zed 2005. Behind the Scenes at the WTO See World Trade Organization. by Fatoumata Jawara and Aileen Kwa, Zed Books/Focus on the Global South, 2003. Trade Justice: Turning Words Into Action An excellent new campaign guide from Christian Aid. Available from email: info@christian-aid.org tel: +44 20 7523 2225 Trade Observatory web: www.tradeobservatory.org International Centre for Trade and Sustainability web: www.ictsd.org |
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