Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by JENNAR Raoul Marc
Negotiations have started. At least, it is the formula used. For one did not really negotiate yet.
The conference is composed officially of three types of meetings: the plenary sitting where each minister expresses the point of view of his country; a long litany speech where it is rare that (…)
, by Focus on the Global South
This is the second series of news on the ongoing protests in Hong Kong against the WTO reproduced on ESSF website from Focus on the Global South’s.
December 14, 2005
International Day of Protest against GATS and Privatization Wednesday, 14 December 2005
Farmers, fisherfolk, union (…)
, by KUPPERS Gaby
Over the past weekend, thousands of representatives of governments, official delegates, NGOs and grass roots organisations flooded into Hong Kong. The citizens of this city, symbol of free trade unlimited and its rather questionable, but mostly non confessed effects on architecture, people’s (…)
, by BULLARD Nicola, Focus on the Global South
(HONG KONG, 11 December) More than 4,000 workers, farmers, migrant workers chanting “kong yee sai mau” (no to WTO) marched through the bustling commercial district of Hong Kong on day one of the Peoples’ Action Week, which will continue throughout the WTO ministerial from 13-18 December. Local (…)
, by JENNAR Raoul Marc
On the Hong Kong island, Wanchai is the name of the district where the Convention Centre is, an immense building with futuristic forms which was built on the sea, like the prow of a ship which advances in the bay. Since Sunday, Wanchai has been practically in a state of siege, with an (…)
, by TWN
The part of the HK Ministerial draft attracting most disagreement concerns services. Para 21 on services contains square brackets around the words “and the Objectives, Approaches and Timelines set out in Annex C to this document.” If there had been no brackets, the Ministers would “determined (…)
, by SHIVA Vandana
The WTO Ministerial at Hong Kong has already failed. For the corporate world it has failed because smaller, poorer developing countries are starting to have a say in outcomes of WTO negotiations. With the backing of peoples power on the streets they walked out of the Seattle and Cancun (…)
, by TWN
When the WTO’s Sixth Ministerial conference opens in Hongkong on 13 December, there will be lowered expectations of two types. First, it is now a foregone conclusion that the well-publicised ambition that the Ministerial will agree to “full modalities” in agriculture and non-agricultural market (…)
, by SULERI Abid Qaiyum
“We should tone lower our expectations from the Hong Kong Ministerial (Conference), as the divergence in positions among major trading blocs on various issues will not let any meaningful conclusion of the Doha (Development) Agenda to happen”. These were the comments of Pascal Lamy, Director (…)
, by JENNAR Raoul Marc
Hong Kong,
SUMMARY
26 November: first ministerial draft declaration; presentation to the Heads of delegation and to the Committee of the trade negotiations of the WTO: very many and higly critical.
29 November: the Council of the TRIPS decides to extend the application deadline of the (…)
, by Greenpeace France
Hong Kong 9th December 2005 - Four days before trade ministers meet at the 6th Ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Hong Kong, Greenpeace released a new report highlighting the threat that the WTO poses to the world’s last remaining ancient forests. The study Trading (…)
, by Parliamentarians
Signatory list update at: www.fjellregionen.no/wto Presentation
The letter is one of several tools of mobilisation and actions in order to build up broad and deep attention and consciousness towards the WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong December 13, 2005. The letter will be delivered to (…)
, by Public Citizen
Of Course WTO Talks Are Stalled: A Decade of Results Show the Model has Failed Even Explicit Promises of Increased Growth and Decreased Poverty, Yet Agenda for Current Talks Is Just More of the Same with Very Limited Possible Gains for Any and Projected Net Losses for many Countries...
I. (…)
, by KWA Aileen
(GENEVA - 7 December) The Hong Kong Ministerial will be choreographed in order to heighten the likelihood that the “masses” on the inside - the African Group, Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) and least developed countries (LDCs), that is the G90 — do not stage a revolt. (1)
In order to (…)
, by KEET Dot
Article writen by Dot Keet from the Alternative Information and Development Centre, South Africa, and published in the Business Report, Johannesburg, 8 December 2005.
The governments and corporations of the major industrialised countries are bringing intense pressures to bear on all the member (…)
, by Movements (international)
The WTO General Council is considering proposals to amend the TRIPS Agreement in order to permit the exportation of generic medicines produced under compulsory license to supply countries with insufficient or no manufacturing capacity. According to health, in particular AIDS activists, the (…)
, by JENNAR Raoul Marc
I. THE MINISTERIAL DECLARATION: SIX REASONS TO REJECT IT
On 26 November Pascal Lamy, the WTO Director-General, presented a draft of the ministerial declaration on which ministers from the 148 countries gathered in Hong Kong will be required to give their views.
The 25 EU Member States will (…)
, by GENTLE Nick, HUI Polly
SCMP - Sunday, December 4, 2005
As many as 300 militant protesters due to fly in for this month’s WTO ministerial meeting have been put on an official blacklist and will be denied entry into Hong Kong, security sources have revealed.
It is also understood that if they become obstructive at (…)
, by Focus on the Global South
The recently released draft Minsterial text for Hong Kong prepared by Director General Pascal Lamy reveals a very strong push to seal a new deal on services in Hong Kong despite widespread opposition from developing countries to virtually all parts of the text. “If the draft text is endorsed (…)
, by STRICKNER Alexandra, WAGHORNE Mike
Contact: Alexandra Strickner (Tel. +41 22 789 0724 or +41 79 764 8658, astrickner iatp.org “mailto:astrickner iatp.org” ) or
Mike Waghorne (Tel. +33 450 40 11 70 or +33 685 66 03 41, Mike.Waghorne world-psi.org “mailto:Mike.Waghorne world-psi.org”
’After ten years of (…)
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