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What are the mosquitoes?
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Nuisances that bite you and some cause disease such as malaria common in Africa
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In what kind of the weather mosquitoes breed?
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Hot and humid summer months
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What mosquitoes can carry?
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Malaria disease
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How have organization help with the malaria-infected mosquitoes from biting people?
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Buying bed nets for people in Africa which is most inexpensive way
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Since 2007 how many nets were send to families in Africa by the Spread the Net company?
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2.5 milion nets
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What 4 factors affect the health of the people worldwide
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- Climate Change
2.Flooding
3.Drought
4.Lack of Access to Treatment
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Where does the most severe effect of climate change can be felt?
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In Arctic
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Which people get affected by sever climate change in Arctic and how they get affected?
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These effects have negative impact on the health of northern Indigenous people including Inuit.
Their traditional food sources such as caribou are treatened by climate change
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How does flooding have negative effects on the health?
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Flooding can pollute drinking water.
This increases the risk of diseases such as cholera that are spread through the water.
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What can be caused by drought
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A lack of precipitation over long periods of time can cause crops to fail.
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What can drough or lack of preciptation over long periods of time can lead to?
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Famine
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What is famine?
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Extreme food shortage.
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What famine ot extreme food shortage can lead to?
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Starvation and an inability to fight infections
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How does lack of access to treatmet affect the health of large population
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Milions of people die each year because they are unable to get medical care for preventable or treatable disease such as measels.
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What does WHO stand for and what is it?
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The World Health Organization
-It is international authority on world health issues
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When was WHO was formed and by who?
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1948 by the United Nations
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What are the priorities or goals of the WHO organization?
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- Promoting universal healthcare (access to healthcare for everyone)
- Establishing international health regulations such as requiring countries to report disease
- Achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals
4.Coordinating an international response to rise of non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes.
5.Reducing negative effects of social economic and environmental factors on people’s health
6.Increasing access to medical products such as vacciness
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What does the World Health Organization WHO do every year?
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Publishes information about health issues around the world.
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Over the time what does the information about health issues published by WHO reveals?
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Over the time this information reveals the trends.
Ex. people with lower income are more likely to suffer from the heart diseases
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What did Inuvialuit hunters on Banks Islands in Canada’s High Arctic have noticed?
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they noticed the changes in the sea ice.
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What kind of the changes were noticed with the ice?
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The ice now freezes later in fall and thwas earlier in the spring and also there is less sea ice than there was before
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What does the less sea ice means
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It means there are fewer seals which affects the Inuvialuit hunters and their communites.
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For which of the four issue is this an example of?
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This is example of the climate exchange
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Why is this a issue?
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This is a issue beause there are fewer seals.
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The goal of the WHO are stated on page 35. The goal that is circled is one that Canada has and for that we are grateful. What is that goal?
That goal is: Promoting universal healthcare (access to healthcare for everyone)
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What is an intresting, yet sad trend with heart disease as published by the WHO?
People with lower income are more likely to suffer from the heart diseases
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What the Unted Nation (UN) does
Reprentatives from the members countires have made agreement to protect groups whos right are at risk
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When was United Nations founded in?
1945
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How many countries are part of the Unted Nation in 2014?
193
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When was the Universal Declaration of Human Right created?
1948
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What does decleration states?
All people are born free and equal
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What are the human rights
Human rights are the rights of an individual that are considered basic to life in any human society
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Name the human rights
Food
Shelther
Education
Safety
Freedom from discrimination
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Who does human rights apply to?
Human right apply to everyone no matter what their race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, physical or mental ability, age, gender or sexuality.
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What to many countries have to make sure these rights are upheld?
Laws
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Did you know:
Several Canadian organizations and the Canadian goverment are working to support global human rights.
For example: War Child Canada works with women in Afghanistan to help improve the situations.
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Who is Malala Yousafazai?
She was campaigns for the equal access to education for girls.
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Where was Malala Yousafaza from?
Pakistan
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What happend to Malala Yousafaza in 2012?
She was shot by the man opposed to her campaign
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What happened to Malala Yousafaza after she was shot?
She surivived and continues to fight for girls' right
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If education is a human right, why do you think Malala has to campaign for acess to education for the girls?
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Where is Candaina Museum for Human Right located?
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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What is the goal of the musem?
To educate pople abpout human right and to encourage communication and acceptance of others
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What was museum built to resemble?
A dove
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Why do you think the building was designed this way?
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List 5 basic right that people should have regardless of who they are and from where they come from
Food
Shelter
Education
Safety
Freedom
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Name a Canadian organization that helps in another country. Who in particular does the organization help?
A Canadian organization:
War Child Canada
They help women in Afghanistan to help improve their situation
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Where is Malala Yousafzai from?
Pakistan
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For what does Malala Yousafzai campaign for?
Girls education
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What happened to her as a reuslt of opposition to her campaign?
She got shot in her head
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In 2014 what was she awarded for?
The Noble Peace award
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What did in 1959 the memeber of United Nations created?
The member of the Unitd Nations created the Declaration of the Rights of the Child
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In 1990 what did the declaration become?
A set of the international law, the Convention on the Right of the Child
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By 2015 all nations of the UN had recognized the authority of these laws but only 2 countries didnt not. Which 2 countries didn't recognize the authority of these laws?
United States and South Sudan
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To meet the obligation in this agreement what did Canadian Prime Minster Brian Mulroney proposed?
An international summit
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When was the World Summit occured and what was created by this event?
In 1990, the World Summit for Children and created 10 year plan to improve the lives of the children around the world
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What are the rights of the children:
To a name abd citizenship of a country
To adequate food, housing, and medical care
To grow up healthy and free
To go to school and play
To be protected from abuse
In adddition, no child should be forced to do work tat is harmful or dangerous or to work before minmum age.
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What is child labour?
It is a work by chidren under a certain age or work that is dangerous to children's health adn development
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Give a example of the child labour
Thousand of children work in gold mines in Tanzania.
They are sometimes injured in mine collapses. They are also exposed ti dangerous substances when the gold is processed .
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What is the greates cause of the child labour?
poverty
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How much does the children earn in some coutnries?
Children earn almost half of a famiy's income
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Many children are employed by:
their parents in family business
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Why in some cultures people believe that work is good for the kids?
Because they believe the work builds the character and teaches skills
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Child labour is often seen in
poor countries
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In cultures were the girls are not expecyed to got to school what do girls do instead
the girls that are not expected to go to school they are expected to work instead
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Which contients has the worst status of children's right
Africa
Asia
South America
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What is the name of the organization that run many projects around the world to stop harmful chid labour?
The International Labour Organization (ILO)
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In which country in 2009 did Canadian goverment helped fund International Labour Organization ILO project?
Colombia
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What did this project helped?
It helped remove over 800 children from jobs in mining, the illegal drug trades and other dangerous forms in child labour
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What did the girl in Cambodia on the picture do?
The girl from Combodia picks up through waste to remove recyclable materials.
Unhealthy conditions causes a high rate of illness among waste-pickers
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Is it education available to all children?
Education is not available to all children even in countries where it is guranteed by law
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Give me reason why education is not available to children:
Some communities do not have enough money for proper schools.
In poor families, children may have to work rather than go to school.
In some cultures, girls are discouraged from going to school
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Who was Shannen Koostachin?
Sahnne Koostachin was from the Attawapiskat First Nation in Ontario.
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What was her Shanne Koostachin"s elementry school was made of?
Old portables and some of the classrooms were old bathrooms
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What did Shanne Koostachin realized?
She realized that federal goverment was not giving equal funding to First Nations schools.
They received less money than provinical and territorial school- about $2000-$3000 less per child
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What did Koostachin do about the issue?
Koostachin started a campaign to get a new school for Attawapskat.
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How did Koostachin do that?
She wrote to newspaper, posted videos online
spoke at conferences
diferent schools and raillies
and even spoke on the steps of the Parliament of Building
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What happened to Koostachin?
She was killed in car accident in 2010
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What did the students do?
Students formed a charity called Shannen's Dream to continue her campaign
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What happened on Spetember 26, 2011
The House of Common adopted a motion to provide equal funding for First Nations education.
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What did Sahnnen Koostachin said?
"It's hard to feel like you could be somebody important when you dont have have proper resources like libraries or science lab
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What did in 1990 UN Conventions on the Right of the Child forbid?
It forbids the use of children under the age of 15 in armed conflicts.
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How many countires have agreed to obey this convention?
195 countries ahve agreed to obey this convetion
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With these laws are the children being used in wars?
Despite these laws children are still being used in wars around the world.
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How are the children being used in war?
As fighter
messangers
spies
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In which countries child soldiers have been used?
Afghanistan
Colombia
Iraq
Israel
Libya
Mali
Yemen
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Give the reasons why does the child become soldier?
Most child soldiers are kidnaped from their homes and forced to fight.
Some children volunteer to fight becuase they feel pressure from the peers
Some beleive that they will reeive income, food, and security.
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How many percent of the child soldier make the girls?
Girl make up 10 to 30 percent of child soldiers
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What was the youngest ever child soldier documented ?
The youngest soldier ever docuented was 5 years old
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How old are some the children that are forced to become soldiers?
Some children are younger than 10 when they are forced to become soldiers.
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What does fair trade means?
Fair trade means thar the people who grew or made the products received fair payment for their hard work and were treated fairely
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What does invest means
To invest means to give another person or bank or company money in the hope of making more money
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profit
the money left over after paying back the loan
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Import:
buys and brings from another country
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Exports
sells and sends to another country
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What does Canada exports to China
Metals
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What does bike manufacturers in China use the metal for?
To build the bikes
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What is the economy
Economy is the way a country or region manage its money and resources to produce, buy and sell good and services
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What is a good?
Good is a product you can use or consume
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What is a service?
It ia task performed by one person or group for another
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What is trade?
Trade is exhange of goods and services between countries
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What is global economy?
Countries make special arrangments or agreements to trade with another one
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Is Canada part of the global economy?
Yes
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Name the reasons why Canadian companeies trade goods with foreign countries:
1. the good such as bananas and coffee are not able to grow in Canada
2. less expensive to import the good from a foreign coutry than it is to make the same good in Canada. Importing inexpensive good allows the companies to earn bigger profits. They buy good good at lower price and then sell them to Canadians at higher price
3. Canada has a surplus of some goods
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What is surplus?
It is the amount that is left over when all needs have been met. For example Canada has more natural resources than our population can use. Canadian companies export resources such as minerals to countires that dont have their own supply
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When Canada exports the good who do companies are paying?
The companies are paying the Canadians to make those goods or prepare them for export
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When Canada imports the goods who gets paid ?
The workers in other countries are being paid to make the good. Sometimes these foreign workers are paid much less than Canadian workers.
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What do they Canadian grew?
Canadian farmers grew more than 27 milion tonnes of wheat
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Where does Canada export the wheat and wheat flour?
Colombia
Japan
Mexico
United Stated
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How much does Canada anually export the wheat and wheat flour?
17 milions tonnes of wheat and wheat flours are export from Canada
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What is World Trade Organization (WTO)?
WTO is an international organization that supervises trade around the world
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What is the goal of WTO
The organization's goal is to help countries trade with each other.
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What does the World Trade Organization WTO created?
It creates rules and agreements that makes global trade happen easily and effectively.
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What else doe WTO help with?
THe WTO also tries to help its memebers resolve disputes.
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Give one example of solving disputes
If one country complains that another country is not respecting the rules of trade, WTO helps both countries come to an agreement.
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How are the decision are made?
Decisions are made by consesus, which means that manoirty of the memebrs have to agreee
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What does not WTO regulates?
WTO doe not regulate working conditions and wages
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How many countries are part of the WTO?
As June 2014, 160 countires including Cnada were members of the WTO
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Are the fair trade good usually mor eexpensive to produce than non fair trade goods and does means ?
Yes the fair trade are usally more expensive to produce and this means that the comapnies selling fair-trade goods often have to sell their goods for more than other companies do.
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