Stichting Max Havelaar
Type	Non-profit organization
Founded	1988
Headquarters	Utrecht, Netherlands
Key people	Coen de Ruiter, Director
Employees	~10 (2006)
Website	www.maxhavelaar.nl/

Stichting Max Havelaar (or the Max Havelaar Foundation in English) is the Dutch member of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO), which unites 20 national Fairtrade initiatives across Europe, Japan, North America, Australia and New Zealand. It is named after Max Havelaar, which is both the title and the main character of a Dutch 19th-century novel (written by Multatuli) critical of Dutch colonialism in the Dutch East Indies. Image File history File linksMetadata Fairtradelogofinalversion. ... A nonprofit organization (abbreviated NPO, or non-profit or not-for-profit) is an organization whose primary objective is to support some issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Utrecht ( (help· info)) is a municipality and the capital city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This page as shown in the AOL 9. ... For other uses of fair trade, see fair trade. ... The fair trade movement promotes international agreements to enforce price supports for commodities, particularly those exported from poor countries to the industrialised West. ... World map showing Europe Political map (neighbouring countries in Asia and Africa also shown) Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... Max Havelaar is the protagonist in a Dutch novel of the same name written by Multatuli (the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker), first published in 1860. ... Eduard Douwes Dekker, also known as Multatuli Eduard Douwes Dekker (2 March 1820 - 19 February 1887), better known by his pen name Multatuli, was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar (1860) in which he denounced the abuses of colonialism in the former Dutch colony of Indonesia. ... The Dutch East Indies, or Netherlands East Indies, (Dutch: Nederlands-Indië) was the name of the colonies set up by the Dutch East India Company, which came under administration of the Netherlands during the 19th century (see Indonesia). ...

The organization was established in 1988 under the initiative of Nico Roozen, Frans van der Hoff and Dutch ecumenical development agency Solidaridad. Max Havelaar Netherlands was the first to create a Fairtrade Certification Mark used to distinguish Fairtrade products from conventional ones. The Certification Mark guarantees that disadvantaged producers in the developing world are getting a better deal. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nico Roozen is a Dutch economist who, in collaboration with Frans Van Der Hoff and ecumenical development agency Solidaridad, launched Max Havelaar, the first Fairtrade Certification Mark in 1988. ... Frans Van Der Hoff (born in 1939) is a Dutch missionary who, in collaboration with Nico Roozen and ecumenical development agency Solidaridad, launched Max Havelaar, the first Fairtrade label in 1988. ... The word ecumenical comes from a Greek word that means pertaining to the whole world. ... An aid agency is an organisation dedicated to distributing aid. ... For other uses of the name Solidaridad or Solidarity, see Solidarity (disambiguation). ... The International Fairtrade Certification Mark is an independent certification mark used in over 16 countries. ... The fair trade movement promotes international agreements to enforce price supports for commodities, particularly those exported from poor countries to the industrialised West. ...

See also

• Fair trade
• International Fairtrade Certification Mark
• Max Havelaar
• Fairtrade labelling

Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... The International Fairtrade Certification Mark is an independent certification mark used in over 16 countries. ... Max Havelaar is the protagonist in a Dutch novel of the same name written by Multatuli (the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker), first published in 1860. ... International Fairtrade Certification Mark Fairtrade labelling (usually simply Fairtrade or Fair Trade Certified in the United States) is a product certification system designed to allow consumers to identify products (especially agricultural products such as coffee) which meet agreed standards. ...

External link

• Max Havelaar Netherlands