Christian Aid campaigners from Oxfordshire joined the Trade Justice for Peace parade in central London at the weekend.

Campaigners travelled on a huge float in the shape of a pirate ship to show how people were being plundered by unfair trade rules.

Organised by the Trade Justice Movement, a new and growing alliance of development and environment organisations, Saturday's parade highlighted the impact of international trade rules on people in developing countries and called for the rules to be rewritten, putting poverty and eradication at the heart of the process.

Paul Langley, co-ordinator for Christian Aid in Oxfordshire, said: "Trade is a powerful force that affects people around the globe. But it is currently governed by wealthy countries who are protecting their own interests at the expense of the world's poor."