Sunday, May 3, 2009

Fair trade and Human Rights

Fair Trade Promotes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
article 23 states: -everyone has the right to work, and to protection against unemployment
- everyone without any discrimination has the right to equal pay for equal work

- everyone who works has the right to just and favorable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented if necessary by other means of social protection

article 25 states: everyone has a right to a standard of living, adequate for the health and well being of himself and his family

"although the UDHR was agreed upon half a century ago, there are problems with compliance, especially among business corporations. There is still no mechanism to ensure that non state mechanisms comply with these and other international standards. Failure to recognize the importance of rights means that large companies who operate Internationally are often in breach with basic human rights through their actions." (Litvinoff)

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