por Walden Bello* (Reproducido por Focus on the Global South con autorización de Inter-Press Service (IPS). Prohibida su reproducción por medios no autorizados por IPS.) BANGKOK, AGOSTO (IPS): A pocos días de su quinta...
Read MoreEN ESTA ENTREGA POR QUÉ UN FRACASO DE LA CUMBRE MINISTERIAL DE LA OMC ES EL MEJOR RESULTADO PARA EL SUR Walden Bello DE LA MANO A LA BOCA DESAPARECE LA SOPA Moraleja de la campaña por acceso a los medicamentos Nicola...
Read Morepor Aileen Kwa* La OMC perpetra una forma sutil y omnipresente de recolonización y guerra. Exhorta a sus miembros a renunciar a sus derechos soberanos y a su libertad de decisión en materia de políticas nacionales (limitando su...
Read MoreMoraleja de la campaña por acceso a los medicamentos por Nicola Bullard* BANGKOK, septiembre 5. A medida que se aproxima la conferencia ministerial de la OMC en Cancún, conviene hacer un balance de las lecciones de la campaña...
Read MoreBy Pham, TuongVi and Michael Karadjis With contribution from Han,Tuyet Mai Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, Vietnam National University, HanoiVietnam’s economic liberalisation process began in 1986,...
Read MoreBy Aileen Kwa THE WTO perpetrates a subtle and pervasive form of re-colonisation and warfare. It calls on members to relinquish their sovereign rights and policy freedom (by constraining their ability to put in place domestic...
Read MoreBy Robert Fisk The Independent Digital UK Wednesday 20 August 2003 What UN member would ever contemplate sending peace-keeping troops to Iraq now? The men who are attacking America’s occupation army are ruthless, but they...
Read MoreBy Jeremy Brecher As an American, I would like to thank all those people and countries around the world who are helping to pull my country back from the brink of war. And I want to assure you that your efforts are having a big...
Read MoreBy Antonia Rusca (From Novedades [Quintana Roo], August 8, 2003)Franchises Warned about "Globaphobes"Transnational firms from the United States such as fast food restraurants like McDonalds, Subway, and Burger King are...
Read MoreNew Delhi, 24-25 August 2003 Organised by Oxfam Trust, Oxfam (India Trust) and Focus on the Global South Civil society groups from across India met in New Delhi to discuss the implications of the 5th Ministerial Meeting of the...
Read MoreNUMBER 90, August 2003(PDF version click here) CRITICS OF GLOBALIZATION ARRIVE IN CANCUN Sandra Rodriguez MONTREAL: MINI-MINISTERIAL, MICRO-RESULTS, MASS ARRESTS Aziz Choudry CHAIRS ABUSE THEIR POWER IN WTO NEGOTIATIONS Aileen...
Read MoreBy Aziz Choudry Canada’s ambassador to the WTO, Sergio Marchi defended the invitation-only nature of the informal mini-Ministerial held in Montreal from 28-30 July, claiming: "Someone has to act as the locomotive for...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard The heat is on in Geneva. With just four weeks to go before the 5th ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Cancun, Mexico, director general Dr Supichai Panitchpakdi is going to have to pull out...
Read Moreby Sandra Rodriguez Cancun, August 7. With the aim of preparing public demonstrations against the Fifth Ministerial of the World Trade Organization, which will be held here from September 10 to 14, Walden Bello, Raul Bennett,...
Read MoreBy Maria de la Luz GonzalezWith banners reading "Hands off Our Maize" and "Stop the Transgenic Conquest," activists from Greenpeace protested yesterday at the Cuautemoc Monumnet at the Paseo de la Reforma,...
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