Self-presentation of HKPA on WTO
, by HKPA
Self-presentation of HKPA on WTO
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, by Movements (international)
With December’s Ministerial Meeting in Hong Kong in view, WTO members are speeding up negotiations to ensure a successful outcome. The collapse of the trade talks in Cancun still in mind, the WTO changed their negotiating strategy. Negotiators will seek to resolve major conflicting issues in (...)
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, by s2bnetwork
After the failure in July 2005 to reach agreement on moving the Doha Round forward, and in spite of the European Union’s abundant development rhetoric, its statements in the WTO show that the EU is ever more determined to push through a bleakly corporate trade agenda.
This agenda undermines (...)
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, by Focus on the Global South
WTO: The C20 against the farmers
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, by South-Asia Parliamentary Forum
SA Parliamentarians’ Islamabad Declaration on WTO
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, by JENNAR Raoul Marc
WTO: Toward HK (II)
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, by Africa Trade Network
From the 16-19 of August, 2005, organisations of civil society from across Africa, comprising trade unions, farmers organisations, women’s organisations, faith-based organisations and non-governmental organisations, met in Accra under the umbrella of the Africa Trade Network to deliberate upon (...)
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, by BELLO Walden
What is the actual “state of play” in Geneva?
Civil society groups that regard the coming WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong as condemned to producing a deal that can only be detrimental to the interests of developing countries were cheered by the failure of the recent World Trade Organization (...)
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Last year, we were less than fifteen, but at this year’s WTO July General Council meeting more than 300 civil society representatives were present in Geneva. Public debates, workshops, meetings, street mobilizations and actions were organized and joined by various groups from different parts (...)
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G20: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay, Philippines, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
The G20 currently comprises 19 developing country members of the WTO. Led by Brazil and India, the G20 has (...)
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, by BULLARD Nicola
In the personality-free world of trade negotiations, Pascal Lamy is instantly recognisable. His close-shaved hair and a lean-and-hungry look earned through long distance running and formidable work hours, carves him out from the rest. From the moment he put his hat in the ring for the job of (...)
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, by Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Develoment (JSAPMDD), Jubilee South
In December 2005, the highest policy making
body of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
meets for the sixth time, this time in Hong Kong,
in another attempt to hammer out neoliberal
trade rules as outlined in the Doha Development
Agenda. It can be recalled that two years ago,
intense (...)
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, by PANG
NO to WTO
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, by FIDH
Publication of a Report and Resource Guide for National Human Rights NGOs in view of the 2005 WTO Ministerial Conference.
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Over the ten-year history of the World Trade Organization (WTO), distrust and misinformation have controlled the relationship between human rights advocates and (...)
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, by JENNAR Raoul Marc
WTO: Toward HK (I)
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, by Movements (Asian)
We, 70 participants from 16 Asian countries, representing migrant, trade, development, labour, women’s and social action groups and networks, came together for the “Regional Conference on WTO, Development and Migration: Building Migrant and People’s Solidarity in Challenging Neoliberal (...)
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, by Movements (international)
We the participants from various social movements, civil society groups, trade unions and political parties are deeply engaged in challenging and resisting the onslaught of neoliberal globalization.
Privatization of basic services and natural resources, one of the major policies of the (...)
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, by Movements (Asian)
Declaration of the Organizations, Movements and Individuals Gathered for the Asian Strategy Meeting on the World Trade Organization, Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 6-7, 2005.
From December 13 to 18, 2005, the World Trade Organization’s Sixth Ministerial Meeting will take place in Hong Kong. This (...)
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, by Focus on the Global South
Summary: The “July Framework Agreement” is the last nail in the coffin of the illusion that the WTO can somehow be reformed, either piecemeal or comprehensively, to serve the interests of developing countries. More than ever, the Framework and its aftermath have revealed the WTO to be an (...)
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, by BELLO Walden, KWA Aileen
The July Framework Document is a major triumph for the big trade superpowers, particularly the United States. As for the developing world, the situation is more complex, with most countries losing but some claiming that they have made gains. Among the few claiming to be in the win column are (...)
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