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The outcome of the 12th Ministerial Meeting (MC12) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is a big win for rich countries, but a massive defeat for the global South.
Developing countries incurred big losses in several negotiating areas, while issues of critical importance–especially in the (…)
More than two years into a pandemic that has killed 15 million people, World Trade Organization intellectual property barriers shamefully remain a deadly obstruction limiting global access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests & treatments. A few wealthy countries promoting pharmaceutical corporation (…)
On the penultimate day of the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) currently taking place in Geneva, leaders from trade unions, farmers organisations and civil society called upon developing country negotiators to reject compromise outcomes at the WTO MC 12 and (…)
The 10th of September is marked as the International Day of Solidarity Action against WTO and Free Trade Agreements by La Via Campesina, to commemorate the sacrifice of Korean farmer Lee Kyung Hae, who stabbed himself to death, outside the venue of the WTO Ministerial at Cancun Mexico, 2003. His (…)
This article was first published by Follow The Money (in Dutch).
This week, representatives of around 100 countries are meeting in New York to talk about investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). ISDS is a legal instrument that multinationals can use to sue governments for billions. External (…)
Large scale reforms are needed from governments, global corporations, certification organisations, and industry auditors to eradicate forced labour – including living wages and strong enforcement of labour standards.
The two-year Global Business of Forced Labour study investigated the (…)
The cocoa industry is nowhere close to meeting its commitments to reducing child labor and environmental degradation and, in the top growers, the number of children working to produce the chocolate ingredient is actually increasing, according to a report.
Despite more than a decade of (…)
LONDON (Reuters) - Global chocolate makers are buying more cocoa sourced through schemes aimed at stamping out poverty as they rush to make their supply chains more ethical ahead of self-imposed 2020 deadlines.
The trouble for cocoa farmers is the premiums they receive for beans sold under the (…)
Contast in endings. A contrast in endings. Above despair and frustration at the OMC,below hope and optimism at the People’s Summit. photo courtesy of Javier Echaide. The failure of the WTO talks in Buenos Aires to produce any substantial outcome is a victory for the people. This is a clear (…)
Dorothy Guerrero is with social movements from around the world in Geneva this week to push the United Nations to adopt a binding treaty on corporations and human rights.
The struggle to make transnational corporations (or TNCs) accountable for the ill-effects of their operations and abuses, (…)
The Third Session of the United Nations Meeting on the Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights is taking place in Geneva from 23 – 27 October 2017.
Social movements from around the world are in Geneva this week to push the United Nations to adopt a binding treaty on (…)
This open letter was sent today by Canadian academics, including myself, to the Parliament of Wallonia and Belgian voters.
We wrote the letter on Sunday, October 16, after seeing weekend reports of the pressure tactics employed by Canadian politicians and business representatives to influence (…)
The corporate plot to destroy public services worldwide is underway, and TTIP pales in comparison.
The controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) looks on course to be scrapped after Brexit removed its avid cheerleaders, the UK government, from the negotiating table. (…)
More than 450 green, indigenous and landowners’ groups called on the United States Congress on June 6 to vote against the “toxic” Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal.
“We strongly urge you to stand up for healthy communities, clean air and water, indigenous peoples, property rights (…)
European municipalities join the battle against TTIP to protect sovereignty and public services, demonstrating how to take political initiative and build an alternative economy.
Opponents of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) see their chances of victory increasing. (…)
Amsterdam, 2 May 2016 - www.ttip-leaks.org Today Greenpeace Netherlands releases secret documents of the EU-US TTIP negotiations. On www.ttip-leaks.org the documents will be made available for everyone to read, because democracy needs transparency.
“These documents make clear the scale and (…)
STATEMENT BY THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL
Surreptitiously – like bandits who prey on their victim – and undemocratically, the elite which owns finance and the multinationals is driving the implementation of new “Free Trade Agreements”: the Trans-Pacific Partnership, (…)
December 19, 2015 Civil Society Slams Exclusionary Process at the WTO MC10 Today, a group of civil society working together through the global Our World Is Not for Sale (OWINFS) network, present in Nairobi for the 10th Ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO), protested the (…)
#ENDWTO
Unofficial Draft of Agriculture Text at MC10 Big Disappointment
The MC10 facilitator for Agriculture, together with the Chair of the Committee on Agriculture in Special Session, issued a draft text on Agriculture early this morning on Thursday calling it a good faith attempt to (…)
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