FMI: ACHICARLO O HUNDIRLO
Declaración de consenso y documento de estrategia 24 de julio de 2006 Para adherir haga click aquí http://www.focusweb.org/content/view/985/27/ y desplace el cursor hasta el final El documento que figura a...
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EL DESARROLLO NO ES POSIBLE EN LA OMC
[English] Red por la Soberanía Alimentaria* Para acceder al texto completo en inglés: Introducción El colapso de las negociaciones en la Ronda de Doha de la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) no...
Read MoreLA RONDA DE DOHA COLAPSA PARA EL BIEN DE LOS PAÍSES EN DESARROLLO
[english] por Walden Bello* El colapso de la Ronda de Doha de la Organización Mundial del Comercio el lunes 24 de julio en Ginebra es una de las mejores cosas que le han sucedido al mundo en desarrollo en mucho tiempo. En las...
Read MoreREACCIONES ANTE EL COLAPSO DE LA RONDA
[english] por Aileen Kwa* GINEBRA, 25 de julio de 2006. De acuerdo a distintos informes, la reunión de 14 horas del domingo 23 de julio de los ministros del G6 –Estados Unidos, la Unión Europea, Japón, Brasil, India y Australia-...
Read MoreORGANIZACIONES DE LA SOCIEDAD CIVIL CELEBRAN EL COLAPSO DE LA RONDA DE DOHA: EL MEJOR RESULTADO PARA
Ginebra, 25 de julio de 2006: el colapso este lunes de la Ronda de Doha es la mejor noticia que puede dar la OMC a los pobres del mundo. Desde el comienzo, la lógica de la liberalización del comercio de la OMC no...
Read MoreDevelopment is not possible in the WTO!
DEVELOPMENT IS NOT POSSIBLE IN THE WTO! FOR DEVELOPMENT TO LIVE, THE DOHA ROUND MUST DIE! Food Sovereignty Network Introduction The collapse of negotiations in the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Doha Round is good...
Read MoreREACTIONS TO THE COLLAPSE OF THE ROUND
Aileen Kwa* GENEVA, July 25 2006: According to various reports, the 14-hour meeting on Sunday 23 July amongst the G6 — US, EU, Japan, Brazil, India, Australia — ministers ended in the early hours of the...
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Civil Society Groups Celebrate Collapse of Doha Round: The Best Outcome for World’s Poor
25 July 2006, Geneva
Monday's collapse of the Doha Round is the best outcome the WTO can deliver to the world's poor.
From the outset, the WTO's logic of trade liberalisation, did not meet the more complex needs of countries struggling to tailor domestic trade policy to the specific needs of their industries and agricultural producers. The institution, instead, became the playground for the major trading powers to capture markets for their corporations, paying no heed to the impact on Southern producers and industries, nor to the unemployment caused.
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Why Monday’s Collapse of the Doha Round Negotiations is the Best Outcome for Developing Countries
By Walden Bello*
The collapse on Monday of the Doha Round of World Trade Organization negotiations in Geneva is one of the best things to happen to the developing world in a long while.
In the past two weeks, in anticipation of the July 27-28 meeting of the World Trade Organization's General Council, a major rescue effort was mounted to save the "Doha Round" of global trade negotiations from collapse. The most prominent of these efforts took place at the Group of Eight Summit in St. Petersburg, where the leaders of the world's most powerful economies called for a successful conclusion to the round, painting it as a "historic opportunity to generate economic growth, create potential for development, and raise living standards across the world."
Read MoreFilipinos picket Israeli Embassy in Manila
July 19 (Manila) Chanting "We want peace in the Middle East!," about 100 protesters marched to the Israeli embassy in Manila's central business district to protest against Israel's war on...
Read MoreThe IMF : shrink it or sink it : a consensus declaration and strategy paper
[Espanol | Français] July 24, 2006 The following document was collectively drafted over a period of two months by representatives of organizations that attended the “Strategy Session on the International...
Read MoreSTOP the War Coalition (Philippines) call on Philippine Government
STATEMENT ON THE SIEGE OF LEBANON AND GAZA BY ISRAEL With Israel's attacks on Lebanon last week, the Middle East is once again on the brink of a full-scale war. This escalation can only lead to another round of bloodletting...
Read MoreOur Very Own Dirty War
By Walden Bello* (This article appeared in Business World, July 17, 2006.) In Argentina, during the “Dirty War” in the mid-seventies, the military used to load tortured university students into helicopters...
Read MoreOur very own dirty war
By Walden Bello INQ7.net Last updated 01:25am (Mla time) 07/18/2006 IN ARGENTINA during the “Dirty War” in the mid-1970s, the military loaded tortured university students onto helicopters and pushed them into the stormy...
Read MoreAT THE RECEIVING END OF ISRAEL’S ‘COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT’
Filipino Workers in the Middle East:AT THE RECEIVING END OF ISRAEL’S ‘COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT’ The best evacuation plan for trapped Filipino workers in Lebanon is for the Philippine government to demand that...
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