Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by KHOR Martin
A revised draft of the text for the WTO’s Hong Kong Ministerial Conference was issued on the evening of Thursday, 1 December and was the main subject of discussion at the formal General Council meeting on Friday, 2 December. The document is JOB(05)/298/Rev. 1 dated 1 December. The new draft, (…)
, by Focus on the Global South, HKCTU, Kilusang Mangingisda, La Via Campesina, Southeast Asia Fisheries Trade for Justice
Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU), Via Campesina, Kilusang Mangingisda and Southeast Asia Fisheries Trade for Justice, Asian Migrant Center, Focus on the Global South.
Pascal Lamy’s draft text released for the upcoming Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO), (…)
, by KWA Aileen
(GENEVA, 30 November) There is ambiguity in the section on services in the draft Ministerial text (Annex C) (1). Parts of the text have been drafted in a deliberately subtle manner to make it unclear whether or not there will be sectoral negotiations that will commence in GATS negotiations (…)
, by SMALLER Carin
By Carin Smaller with contributions from Shefali Sharma and Alexandra Strickner, TIP/IATP
CONTENTSI. MANIPULATING DEVELOPMENTII. MEASURING THE IMBALANCESIII. AGRICULTURE: how to fix itIV. SERVICES: changing the architectureV. COMMODITIESVI. FROM NOW UNTIL HONG KONGVII. IMPORTANT DATES TO (…)
, by MARTONE Francesco
Many observers had expected a remake of Cancun out of the Hong Kong 6th WTO Ministerial Conference. In 2003 the bloc of emerging economies - the so called G23 headed by Brazil and India - blocked the negotiation bringing it to a collapse. A pivotal role was then played by African countries (…)
, by SHARMA Devinder
The skeletal first draft of the Hong Kong ministerial has disappointed many. Members have realised that the final text would favour those who can negotiate the hardest in the next few days. Can India hold its own against the developed world?
WTO Director General Pascal Lamy seems to be a firm (…)
, by KHOR Martin
The draft Ministerial text for the WTO’s Hongkong Conference was issued on Saturday 26 November at an informal heads of delegation meeting.
The main text comprises 38 paragraphs in 8 pages. There are 6 annexes dealing with agriculture, NAMA, services, rules, trade facilitation, and special (…)
, by Korean People’s Action against Neoliberal Globalization
The ‘Korean People’s Delegation against WTO Hong Kong Ministerial’, consisting of more than 1,500 peasants, workers, NGO and social movement activists, is continuing its preparations for its ‘offshore struggle’ in Hong Kong. It has formed its basic organizational structure, decided on its aims (…)
, by ITWF
Letter from International Transport Workers’ Federation to all affiliated organizations
To all Affiliated Organisations
24 November 2005
Dear Colleagues
Trade Unions and the 6th Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organisation,
Hong Kong, 13-18 December 2005
Many trade unions and (…)
, by BELLO Walden
Talk delivered at the Forum “What is at Stake in Hong Kong?” Co-sponsored by Stop the New Round Coalition and Focus on the Global South Sulo Hotel, Quezon City, Philippines, 25 November 2005.
The negotiations leading up to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial in Hong Kong are (…)
, by MALIG Mary Louise
After the July Framework (1) was rammed through the July 2004 General Council, the mood of the big trading powers and the World Trade Organization (WTO) secretariat was triumphant. This was what they needed to move the talks forward after the derailment of the 2003 5th WTO Ministerial in Cancun, (…)
, by GUE/NGL
We are reproducing below the motion presented at the European Parliament by the European United Left / Nordic Green Left Group (GUE/NGL) on the coming WTO conference. This is not a document adopted by the European Parliament.
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, by La Via Campesina
Please find below the letter Via Campesina has send to Hong Kong Authorities (contacts see letter in the annex) in order to ask that all charges against the 14 will be dropped. Please send also your letter to the Hong Kong authorities asking to drop all charges against the 14 (even if you have (…)
, by Our World Is Not For Sale Network
For almost a year, Our World Is Not For Sale network (OWINFS) has prepared a new statement. Here is the final, official version. It lays out its vision of what the “other possible world” we fight for could look like, as well as stating specific positions on trade-related issues. It also reflect (…)
, by GREENFIELD Hidayat
It’s fitting that the Sixth WTO Ministerial should arrive in Hong Kong only a couple of months after the opening of Disneyland. In both cases reality is abandoned at the door, while fiction and fantasy take over. The magical Doha ’Development’ Round promises an end to global poverty and (…)
, by Movements (India)
Over 200 representatives from trade unions (Banking, Insurance, Education, Port and Dock workers, government employees, central trade unions) and civil society organisations gathered in Mumbai on 16 November 2005 for a convention against the WTO-GATS. The aim was to strategise on defending the (…)
, by JENNAR Raoul Marc
Since the start of this year, countries such as South Africa, India, Kenya and Thailand no longer have the right to manufacture generic medicines which are not covered by a patent. Indeed, as of 31 December, a ten-year period, deemed transitional, for the application to developing countries of (…)
, by KHOR Martin
Geneva 9 November 2005
WTO members invited to a “super Green Room” meeting at the WTO headquarters have significantly scaled down their expectations of the outcome of the WTO’s Hong Kong Ministerial conference in December.
The meeting, held on Tuesday and to continue Wednesday, was attended (…)
, by KHOR Martin
Geneva,
A Mini-Ministerial meeting was under way at the WTO this afternoon in an attempt by the Director-General Pascal Lamy to provide some political momentum to the faltering preparatory process for the Hong Kong Ministerial conference in mid-December.
There have been several (…)
, by African Group (WTO)
The Permanent Mission of the Arab Republic of Egypt
To the United Nations & International Organizations in Geneva
Geneva, 08 November, 2005
Mr. Pascal Lamy, Director-General, World Trade OrganizationChairman of the Trade Negotiations CommitteeRue de Lausanne 154, CH-1211 Geneva 21, (…)
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