Global Week of Action

Colin Firth delivers the Big Noise petition to the WTO

Colin Firth met with World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi at in Geneva to present the Big Noise petition which now totals over 7 million names. The petition represents the voices of people around the world who are calling on world leaders to change the rules of international trade.

Asked why he had got involved, Firth told reporters: "Because I'm part of the problem really. I'm a middle class consumer in a rich country who is getting gradually uneasy about the way the trade rules are rigged in the world."

Supachai said he welcomed Oxfam's campaign.

"I have always said that we appreciate this tremendous effort by Oxfam, of people like Colin Firth, to have undertaken this kind of exercise to arouse the consciousness of the people... I would like the campaign to be successful."