“world Consumer Rights Day” provides an opportunity to demand that all consumers’ rights be recognized and maintained. In addition, to resist commercial abuses and social injustices that jeopardize those rights. Every year on March 15, International Consumer Rights Day is marked to mobilize action on critical problems and campaigns.
Theme for World Consumer Rights Day 2022
‘Fair Digital Finance’ is the theme of World Consumer Rights Day 2022.
By 2024, the number of digital banking customers is predicted to approach 3.6 billion.
In the developing world, the proportion of account holders sending and receiving payments digitally has increased from 57% in 2014 to 70% in 2017.
Without a doubt, digital finance introduces new opportunities, but it also introduces new hazards that might result in unfair consequences for customers.
The theme of World Consumer Rights Day 2021 was ‘Tackling Plastic Pollution’. The theme focuses on increasing consumer knowledge and encouraging them to adopt and support more sustainable practises around the world. It will also emphasise the critical role that consumer advocates, governments, and companies can play in addressing the worldwide plastic pollution catastrophe.