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...Trade business. They are taking a page from an old Nike playbook, which could be risky in today's politically charged market. When the shoemaker originally balked at changing work conditions at its contracted factories, a consumer backlash damaged the company's reputation and sales. Humanitarian groups such as Oxfam and Co-op America are now asking big wholesalers to switch at least 2% of their purchases to Fair Trade. And last November, Catholic Relief Services launched an effort to persuade the nation's 65 million Catholics "to live out their faith" by drinking Fair Trade brew. They are joining...
...Africa over the past two decades: In the 1980s, African countries were actually a net supplier of capital to industrialized countries. As late as 1993, rich countries took three dollars back in the form of loan repayments for every dollar given to Africa in aid, according to the 1995 Oxfam Poverty Report...
Relief workers are an easy target. To build trust with locals, they typically refuse to carry weapons or seek military protection. "Aid workers cannot sit like soldiers in armored cars," says Brendan Cox, a spokesman for the British aid group Oxfam. "That would undermine the reason we are there." To improve security, many organizations in Iraq are requiring workers to travel in groups and maintain radio contact with headquarters. Red Cross reps in Jerusalem have held secret meetings with members of Palestinian militant groups to ensure the safety of workers. Often, the only option is to scale back operations...
Take the WTO ministerial in Cancun. The long anticipated trade talks were quickly abandoned when developing country representatives marched out en masse. One of their chief objections was the developed nations’ intransigence on the issue of agricultural subsidies. According to a recent Oxfam trade report, Northern governments currently shell out one billion dollars in agricultural subsidies every day. But perhaps the most interesting thing about the subsidies controversy is its failure to conform to any simple ideological mold. By making free trade advocates of the developing countries, it turns the usual caricature of the globalization debate...
...Liberia is dialing 911 and nobody is picking up the phone." Sam Nagbe, An aid worker for Oxfam, in the failing state of Liberia...