Detrás de la gran muralla china: las empresas estadounidenses se oponen a nuevos derechos para los trabajadores chinos por Global Labour Strategies* Resumen ejecutivo Las empresas estadounidenses se oponen a la...
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THE DERAILER’S GUIDE TO THE WTO provides basic information about WTO agreements, what is on...
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African Parliamentarians Demand Ministers to Safeguard Local Markets and Peoples’ Livelihoods at Hong Kong WTO Ministerial. Ministers from the African Union will be gathering in Arusha 23-24th November to discuss their...
Read MoreIn yet another deceitful move by rich industrialised nations to aggressively access developing country markets, the just released draft WTO Ministerial text on Services is deliberately ambiguous on whether developing countries...
Read MoreChapingo, México, 13.11.2005 Señor: Nosotras, las organizaciones firmantes, representantes de decenas de millones de trabajadores y agricultores, campesinos sin tierra y desempleados, de derechos humanos y...
Read More“Plurilateral Request-Offer” Approach in GATS Draft Text: Entry Point for Dangerous Sectoral Negotiations by Aileen Kwa Misleading Language in the Draft Ministerial There is ambiguity in the current draft...
Read MoreSpanish version | This letter is in response to a Letter "Last and best chance to move Doha to a successful conclusion", in the Financial Times, November 8, 2005, printed in the Financial Times, November 15, 2005...
Read Morepor Walden Bello* (Conferencia, Universidad de Dalhousie, Universidad St Francis Xavier, y Universidad de York, Canadá, octubre 2005) Me han pedido que hable sobre la crisis de hegemonía de Estados Unidos. En mi libro, “Dilemmas...
Read Morepor Aileen Kwa * En las pasadas seis semanas, los ‘solicitantes’ que reclaman la liberalización de los servicios han estado manipulando el proceso de negociaciones en Ginebra para lograr generar un cambio radical en la...
Read MoreKicking off a week of global launches of its latest documentary, WTO: Why is it really bad for you, Focus on the Global South hosted its first international event in Bangkok, Thailand (14 November 2005). This video is crucial...
Read MoreINT’L NETWORK TO ABOLISH FOREIGN MILITARY BASES: Inaugural Conference Set for March 2007 in Ecuador 30 October 2005 — After a long process of consultations and discussions, organizers have set 7-10 March 2007 as the...
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In the past month and the half in Geneva , the demandeurs in services liberalisation have been maneuvering the process to engineer a radical change in the current more “flexible” GATS architecture. The teamwork amongst a group of countries and players – spearheaded by EC, and also with India (and the US ) – together with the Chair of the Council for Trade in Services (CTS), Mexican Ambassador Fernando de Mateo, and supported by the WTO Secretariat, has almost been flawless.
Read Moreby Walden Bello and Shalmali GuttalT H E P E O P L E V S . C O R P O R A T E P O W E RMultinational Monitor: JULY/AUGUST 2005 – VOLUME 26 – NUMBERS 7& 8Bangkok — What a...
Read MoreCivil society groups today are sending the WTO Director General Pascal Lamy an open letter (attached) slamming the highly undemocratic and deceptive process used to manufacture the services section of the draft Ministerial...
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