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ABCs of Fair Trade  
URL:http://www.fairtraderesource.org/learn-up/buy-ftrn-publications/beginners-guide/abcs-of-fair-trade/
Category:Globalisation 

The US Fair Trade Resource Network provides an introduction to the issue of fair trade with short descriptions of topics including: Accountability, Business ethics, Codes of conduct, Certification, Free trade, Globalisation, Labeling, Organics, Quotas and Subsidies.

Apparel Industry Code of Conduct: A Consumer Perspective on Social Responsibility  
URL:http://www.nclnet.org/notredam.htm
Category:Globalisation 

An informed, empowered, and energised consumer movement is responsible for much of the progress against sweatshops and child labor abuses. The consumers movement is founded on the belief that the customer who buys sweatshop goods is as much the employer of sweated labor as the boss of the shop.

Clean Clothes Campaign  
URL:http://www.cleanclothes.org/
Category:Globalisation 

The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) is a coalition of trade unions, consumer organisations, researchers, human rights organisations, women's organizations and other organisations that aims to improve working conditions in the global garment industry. The site includes a photo gallery, newsletter, FAQ and Codes of Conduct.

Diverted to Delhi. Teacher's Notes  
URL:http://www.filmaust.com.au/programs/teachers_notes/8621_diverteddelhi.pdf
Category:Globalisation 

Teachers notes for Film Australia program on outsourcing and globalisation. When Australians, Americans or British consumers phone to make a customer service query, their calls are often re-routed to India, and answered by Indians impersonating local telephone operators. This well-guarded secret is called outsourcing. The college graduates who work in India's burgeoning call centre industry are forced to put aside their cultural identity, modify their accent and change their names so they can take on an international personality.

Ethical Trading Initiative Base Code  
URL:http://www.ethicaltrade.org/Z/lib/base/code_en.shtml
Category:Globalisation 

The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) has developed a code of labour practice, known as the Base Code, reflecting the most relevant international standards with respect to labour practices throughout the world. ETI member companies are expected to adopt this Base Code, or to adopt their own code so long as it incorporates the Base Code. The Base Code which is accompanied by a set of general principles concerning implementation, provides a foundation for ETI's philosophy of learning.

Fair Labor Association (FLA)  
URL:http://www.fairlabor.org/
Category:Globalisation 

The Fair Labor Association (FLA) is a non-profit organization combining the efforts of industry, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), colleges and universities to promote adherence to international labor standards and improve working conditions worldwide. The FLA conducts independent monitoring and verification to ensure that the FLA's Workplace Standards are upheld where FLA company products are produced. Through public reporting, the FLA provides consumers and shareholders with credible information to make responsible buying decisions.

Fair Trade For All Education Kit  
URL:http://www.fta.org.au/resources/educationkit
Category:Globalisation 

This kit provides Australian-based educational materials that focus on issues of trade justice, and in particular the Fairtrade certification system. The kit consists of six modules ? World Trade, Fairtrade Certification, The Coffee Trade, The Cocoa Trade, Sweatshops, Avenues of Empowerment ? for use with young people aged 10?13 years. All modules provide teacher information and a student resource sheet and include links to the Victorian Essential Learning Standards.

Free Trade and the Environment  
URL:http://www.aworldconnected.org/debates/id.2870/debates_detail.asp
Category:Globalisation 

What effects do trade agreements like NAFTA, GATT and the WTO have on the environment? What effects do they have on the environments of already developed countries versus the environmental integrity of the third world? If liberalised trade does indeed create wealth, does wealth and added industrialisation better or worsen the developing world? Is there any way to have both: environmental protection and the benefits of free trade?

G8 Gleneagles 2005  
URL:http://www.g8.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1078995902703
Category:Globalisation 

The G8 stands for the 'Group of Eight' nations. At the G8 Summit, the leaders of the eight member countries discuss the major policy issues affecting the international community and their own countries. This website for the 2005 summit, hosted at Gleneagles in Scotland, contains speeches, statements, FAQs, information about countries that participate in the G8 and a glossary of relevant terms.

Global Issues Gateway (GIG)  
URL:http://www.gig.org/
Category:Globalisation 

An educational website from Fairleigh Dickinson University (US) for those investigating issues arising from the rapid exchange of goods and ideas across increasingly porous geographic and cultural borders. The mission is to serve as a discriminating source of news, information, and commentary that illuminates the impact of globalisation on societies, on institutions, and on the daily lives of people throughout the world, and to provide global learning resources for students, scholars, teachers, and journalists. Content will include digests of web articles related to political, economic, cultural, ethical, and scientific dimensions of current global issues, annotated portals of major web sites related to current global issues, an archive of lectures and videoconferences featuring ambassadors to the United Nations, and columns, letters, interviews, roundtables, and reports on current global concerns by a global network of academic experts, activists, and professionals.