The UK-based international development agency Christian Aid is among those urging Caribbean heads of government to refuse to sign a new trade deal that the European Union (EU) is attempting to force onto the region.

Campaigners are to gather next week to lobby European embassies and the UK government to put a stop to unfair trade deals between Europe and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries.

Developing countries should be wary of the European Union’s (EU) latest offer of duty and quota-free access to its markets for developing countries, announced in Brussels yesterday, Christian Aid has said.

Christian Aid has backed the UK parliament's accusations that the European Union is abusing its trade negotiating power with former colonies

An alliance of sixteen faith community leaders and the chief executive of the British Humanist Association have sent a letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair, urging the government to take further decisive action on the “affront and injustice of international debt”.

Welcome Baptist Church in Heathfield, East Sussex has become the nation's 400th ‘Fairtrade Church'.

The Rev Clifton Kirkpatrick, who moderates the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA), is urging fast-food giant Burger King to work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to address wages and working conditions in the tomato fields.