Rock Against the Round 2008 Musicians Against the WTO Filipino musicians are Rocking Against the Round this Friday, July 25 at Mogwai in Cubao X, Metro Manila, PHILIPPINES, joining activists around the world in the global call...
Read MoreWTO Deal: Manmohan Singh Government Must Obtain Explicit Mandate of the Parliament for the Mini Ministerial – Statement from the Indian Peoples Campaign against the WTO (IPCAWTO) on upcoming WTO Mini-Ministerial Conference...
Read MoreJakarta, July, 21, 2008—Responding to the WTO mini-ministerial meeting, we are from Gerak Lawan, a broad coalition of Indonesian people’s movement, felt it is pertinent to alert the Government of Indonesia (GOI) and the...
Read MoreTime to pull the plug on WTO-Doha Trade Deal Current proposals are further proof of anti-development nature of the Round The Stop the New Round Coalition (SNR) joins peoples’ organizations and movements across the globe in...
Read MoreReject the Doha Round! Call to Action We, representatives of peasant organizations, women, migrants, workers, urban and rural poor, fisherfolks, social movements and civil society organizations from East and Southeast Asia call...
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Reject the Doha Round!
Call to Action
We, representatives of peasant organizations, women, migrants, workers, urban and rural poor, fisherfolks, social movements and civil society organizations from East and Southeast Asia call for the rejection of the Doha Round.
We condemn and urgently call the attention of others to the attempts to conclude the Doha “Development” Round through a Mini-Ministerial in Geneva this July 21-26, 2008. This informal meeting to be convened by WTO Director General Pascal Lamy will begin July 21 and last for up to one week. Only around 30 trade ministers were invited to take part in this informal and exclusive phase of negotiations with unfair and imbalanced texts as the basis for the talks.
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Read Walden Bello’s article entitled DOHA Deal on Services Poses Real Perils
Also read the SNR’s Statement on the DOHA Round Negotiations
by Walden Bello Originally published in The Bangkok Post on July 15, 2008 Desperate to clinch a new global trade deal, World Trade Organisation chief Pascal Lamy is planning to convene a “mini-ministerial” meeting in...
Read More(Statement of organizations affiliated with the G8 Action Network, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, July 9, 2006) The G 8’s communiqué regarding their action on climate is actually inaction being masked as movement. It is a great fraud...
Read More(Statement of organizations affiliated with the G8 Action Network, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, July 9, 2006)
Read MoreSouth Asian heads of government will meet in Colombo, Sri Lanka for the annual South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit between 27 July and 3 August 2008. Regrettably, this SAARC summit will be no...
Read MoreBy Walden Bello* (Speech at the opening plenary of the People’s Summit, Sapporo Convention Center, Hokkaido, Japan, July 6, 2008.) The Group of Eight came into being in 1975 as the G7 at a time that the world was embroiled in...
Read MoreBy Saturnino Borras Jr., Mary Ann Manahan, Eduardo C. Tadem First published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer 6 July 2008 OPPONENTS OF EXTENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) insist that we suspend land...
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HOKKAIDO, Japan July 7, 2008 – The World Bank is officially launching its “climate investment funds” backed by Japan, the US and the UK during the G8 meeting in Hokkaido, Japan, 7-9 July.
The funds – which have already been criticised by developing country governments – will be used to finance so-called clean technology including coal and agrofuels, loans for adapting to climate change and to set up carbon trading schemes that allow industrialised countries to buy their way out of emission reductions.
Read MoreBy Walden Bello* (Sapporo, July 6, 2008) Trade, climate change, skyrocketing oil prices, and debt have been the topics of discussion in the parallel civil society events to the Group of Eight Summit, but the issue that has drawn...
Read MoreOn July 1-4, Focus on the Global South Philippines Programme co-organized with the University of the Philippines Department of Political Science, the Philippine Political Science Association and the Third World Studies Center, a...
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