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The World Trade Organization, or WTO, deals with the rules of trade between nations. The goals of the WTO are to help producers of goods and services, importers and exporters conduct their businesses. “We ought to have a seat at the table so we can protect the interests of workers.” says Chuck Collins, Co.-director of United For A Fair Economy www.cnn.com. The WTO is good and has good goals but needs to have allow common people to have a say on the way it is run. Some people think the only way the WTO will listen to them is to protest when they gather to discuss their future agenda. The WTO needs to try and change the work conditions in third world countries that do not have the benefits of other countries. There are more than 250 million children working around the world because of poverty stricken families that have no other choice but to have their children work, www.cnn.com, Lefevre. This causes them to receive no education and live their life in poverty. With any new trade agreement made there should be a provision, to prohibit the use of child labor and to manufacture products with child labor. This could help in the reduction of child labor in other countries. If the countries would not allow