FRANCE: PARIS, Dec 1 (IPS) - Just like humanitarian relief, fair trade is a field that attracts passionate individuals with complex world views. Most are not in it for the money. But it is also rife with controversy, as personalities ...
WORLD: Analysis by Hilaire Avril PARIS, Sep 26 (IPS) - The idea of making trade fair is as old as ethics itself. French fair trade literature is fond of referring to Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics, in which the Greek philosopher emphasises ...
DEVELOPMENT-WORLD: PARIS, Sep 15 (IPS) - Fair trade is held up as promoting fair prices for producers and guaranteeing social and environmental standards. These ideas are neither new nor controversial. But the recent boom in fair trade has ...
TRADE-WEST AFRICA: PARIS, Aug 11 (IPS) - According to a recent report by the nongovernmental organisation ActionAid, West African seas are being devastated by legal and illegal overfishing, while local fishing industries decline. Moreover, ...
TRADE: PARIS, Jul 27 (IPS) - Brussels is tempted to skip the translation of the interim economic partnership agreements (EPAs) into the 23 official European languages because of concerns that some African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) ...
TRADE-AFRICA: PARIS, Jun 17 (IPS) - Some of the 35 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states that have initialled interim economic partnership agreements (EPAs) may still withdraw from the process apart from the 44 states that have so ...
FRANCE: PARIS, Jun 4 (IPS) - According to the French constitution, France has no minorities. French law makes it illegal to record citizens' ethnic origin or religion. But in the face of mounting discrimination, France recently introduced ...
TRADE-AFRICA: PARIS, Apr 24 (IPS) - As it prepares to assume the presidency of the European Union in July one of the main issues on Frances agenda will be the economic partnership agreements (EPAs). But with less than three months to go, ...
TRADE-AFRICA: PARIS, Mar 24 (IPS) - France is expected to push for the further entrenchment of trade-distorting agricultural subsidies when it ascends to the presidency of the European Union (EU) on July 1 this year. Despite amendments to ...
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