Full Coverage: Trade

21.11.2007 NEW YORK, Nov 21 (OneWorld) - Labor rights activists in the United States are trying to organize a nationwide campaign to push Congress to oppose the Bush administration's plans to promote new free trade agreements.

21.11.2007 Opium accounts for more than half of AfghanistanÂ’s GDP (at 53%) in 2007, says UNODCÂ’s recent Afghan Opium Survey. The total export value of opiates produced and trafficked from the country hit $4 billion this year, of which three-quarters have been made by drug traffickers and insurgents, says Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of UNODC.

16.11.2007 The Human Rights Watch has called for a ban on the import of BurmaÂ’s precious stones, saying the trade helps finance its military rulers to stay in power. The country is in deep political turmoil following the military junta crackdown against Buddhist monks and other civil protesters, who are being subject to severe human rights abuses.

12.11.2007 Food and Agricultural Organization’s latest prediction of high global prices of cereals in the coming year has led to debates on future prices of agricultural commodities in both rich and poor trading countries. With growing demand for food, feed and industrial use – many countries will pay more for importing cereals than they did before, even though they are expected to import less, the report says.

07.11.2007 Susan Smith of the National Confectioners Association responds to OneWorld's article on fair trade chocolate for Halloween.

07.11.2007 The newly released Trade and Development Index of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development indicates an emerging positive picture. Even the worldÂ’s poorest countries are approaching the Millennium Development Goals, it claims.