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The Fairtrade Foundation / Make Trade Fair

Why should we pay £50 for a t-shirt which cost pennies to produce thanks to slave labour? Why should we insist on the lowest food prices at supermarkets when it means that millions of people in the world will be condemned to live a life of utter poverty and exploitation? Who are we to demand that?

I urge you to seek out and source Fairtrade goods wherever possible. Please do your bit, however little to support these fantastic ventures Fairtrade Foundation / Make Trade Fair.

Amnesty International UK

Do you think that "human rights" is just some airy fairy liberal term for being politically correct? Do you think that other countries should look to us in the UK as a sophisticated model of rights and democracy in action? If "yes", then please think again. How we think and behave with respect to human rights determines how we as a society and as a people wish to be treated. Do we wish to be treated with dignity and respect? Do we honour to protect those values with the full weight of international will and law? Or do we simply pick and choose how people should be treated as and when the political climate dictates?

Please help to raise the general awareness of human rights issues in this and EVERY country.

Greenpeace

Central Governments, big business and the mass media would have you believe that all is well with the environment, that tree hugging hippies/eco-warriors (delete as applicable) are causing undue panic by raising serious questions about the state of the environment. What do you think? Who do you trust? Do you trust scientific reports sponsored by tobacco conglomerates, multinational oil companies, fast food organisations and the like? Do you honestly think that our natural resources are endless and that we can realistically sustain this unprecedented level of consumption without conscience or consequence?

Read the campaign information on this site and then decide for yourself.

Facts - Taken from the EARTH FROM THE AIR Project.

• Half of humanity lives on less than $2 a day
• 1 in 5 of the world's population does not have access to safe drinking water
• Last century, the planet's population was multiplied by 3. World water consumption was multiplied by 6
• One in three children under the age of five suffers from malnutrition
• 40% of the world's population does not have electricity
• The world trade share of the 50 poorest countries went from 4% to 2% between 1990 and 2000
• 20% of the people living in the wealthiest countries consume 60% of the Earth's commercial energy production
• Every week, more than a million people are added to the world's population
• One out of five of the world's adults cannot read or write. 98% of them live in developing countries and two-thirds are women
• The amount of oil consumed in 6 weeks, half of which is used for transport, would have lasted a whole year in 1950
• World reserves of fresh water:
  1950: 600,372 cubic feet per capita
  2000: 275,465 cubic feet per capita

The Anti-Corruption Group and Complaints against the police.
There is nothing worse than a bent police officer. These people are entrusted to enforce the law, not to break the law. No matter what the situation and what the rationale, there can be no excuse for allowing police officers to break the very laws there are supposed to uphold. Whether it is something "minor" such as an unauthorised PNC check, or officers intimidating "their man", or something "major" such as GBH, drug dealing, perverting the course of justice, we cannot let a minority of idiots undermine the police force. Shop a bent officer NOW. One law, one justice. The Police are not above the law.

>> Human & Constitutional Rights, Documents <<
"No one should be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks on his honour or reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interferences or attacks" - Article 12 - Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948.

"(1) Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.
(2) There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except as in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime for the protection of health of morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others" - Article 8 - The European Convention on Human Rights.

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