By Paul Blustein(Washington Post) DOHA, Qatar, Nov. 11 — The way the plan was originally conceived, six boats loaded with anti-globalization activists were to sail into the port of this Persian Gulf sheikdom to protest the...
Read MoreBy Paul Blustein(Washington Post)DOHA, Qatar, Nov. 11 — The way the plan was originally conceived, six boats loaded with anti-globalization activists were to sail into the port of this Persian Gulf sheikdom to protest the...
Read MoreBy Anuradha Mittal DOHA, November 11 — As the WTO continues to meet in Doha, Qatar, it faces a severe crisis of legitimacy. Every newspaper present here and the Qatari News Agency, the daily bulletin on the WTO Fourth...
Read MoreBy Anuradha Mittal DOHA, November 10 — As I headed out of my heavily guarded hotel this morning, which is housing the U.S. delegation, a Qatari security official stopped me. He said, "You were protesting yesterday. I...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello DOHA, Sunday 11 November — Intense backroom discussions marked the first two days of the WTO meeting. Developing countries feel that the ministerial draft circulated by Director General Michael Moore and...
Read MoreBy Paul Blustein, Washington Post DOHA, Qatar, Nov. 9 — The World Trade Organization’s top official opened the group’s meeting here today with a warning that failure to reach agreement on new trade talks would...
Read More10 November 2001, Doha Members of the Friends of the Development Box Group: Cuba; Dominican Republic; El Salvador; Haiti; Honduras; Kenya; Nicaragua; Nigeria; Pakistan; Peru; Senegal; Sri Lanka; Uganda; Zimbabwe Agriculture...
Read MoreBy Aileen Kwa GENEVA, 9 November – The WTO Ministerial convenes this evening with the majority of developing countries deeply unhappy with the process of negotiations leading up to the Doha meeting and dissatisfied with...
Read MoreBy Nicola Bullard BANGKOK, 9 November – In one of the first protests on the international day of action against the WTO, more than 1,500 farmers, jasmine rice producers, trade unionists and HIV/AIDS activists marched from...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello (This article originally came out under the author’s commentary Perspective in Business World, Nov. 2, 2001.)Desperate is the word to describe the antics of the trade superpowers on the eve of the Fourth...
Read MoreBy Aileen Kwa October 22nd 2001GENEVA– The US and EU, as well as the WTO Secretariat, are showing desperation in their attempts to ram through a new round of trade negotiations with a host of new issues by the WTO...
Read MoreThai farmers, aids activists march onus embassyNicola BullardPower politics to cripple WTO ministerialAileen KwaTrade superpowers turn on heat as WTO ministerial opensWalden BelloNo to a new round in DohaStatement of...
Read MoreBy Shalmali Guttal (Paper Prepared for the Workshop "Briefing-Debriefing Qatar" Brussels, October 16, 2001)The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is founded and maintained on many myths. The most all-pervasive myth is that...
Read MoreBy Shalmali Guttal Presentation at the Conference: “Liberalisation and Deregulation:Women Say NO to Speculation!” October 12, 2001 Before all else, I would like to thank the Commission on Women and Development in...
Read MoreFocus on Trade No. 68, October 2001 After over two weeks of Anglo-American bombardment of Afghanistan, once one gets beyond the sound and fury of American bombs and the smokescreen of CNN propaganda, it appears that in the war...
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