Hello,
This year you have helped campaign for an end to trade injustice alongside millions around the world. Before the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial meeting that has just taken place, over 750,000 votes for trade justice were handed in to 10 Downing Street and, in Hong Kong where the WTO met, Peter Mandelson received over 470,000 emails calling on him as Europeís trade commissioner to ensure trade justice was delivered at the meeting.
Rich country governments knew what was required of them to make trade work for poor people. However, in Hong Kong they clearly lacked the political will to take the bold steps they should have done.
The WTO meeting failed to deliver the trade justice deal needed in 2005 to make poverty history. The responsibility for the WTO failing the world's poor rests with rich countries. Those governments, despite all our campaigning, did not show willingness to deliver trade justice.
As a result of this, the agreement reached is far from just for the poor of the world.
To read Make Poverty History's full response to the WTO meeting go here.
Thank you for voting for Trade Justice and emailing Peter Mandelson and Alan Johnson, the UK trade minister, ahead of this crucial meeting. In 2006 it will be more important than ever before that political leaders know we are all still watching them and calling on them to finally deliver trade justice.
The Make Poverty History Team
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