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WTO
World Trade Organization
No to the WTO - Oppose Corporate Globalization
Free trade and unrestricted foreign investment have destroyed people’s lives and the environment in this country and around the world.
The WTO’s Global Free Market Agenda Means:
More freedom to
exploit for global big business
Widening
inequalities between and within countries
More wars, poverty
and environmental disasters
Putting “free
trade” before local social, environmental, economic and cultural concerns
More privatization
of public assets, utilities and services
More power and
control by transnational corporations, less for people
Enforceable rules
affecting our future made in secret
The further
marginalization of Maori and other Indigenous Peoples
More unemployment and low-paid, low quality, insecure jobs
More power and rights for the biotech (GE, GM etc) industry
Azurix v Argentina - Water Battles
Luke Eric Peterson, Investment Treaty News
The Doha talks must fail for the sake of the world's poor
Robert Wade, The Guardian
Numsa Plans Marches on US and EU Embassies over Tariff Reductions
Media Release from National Union Of Metalworkers Of South Africa
Australian government outlines pro-market agenda for Pacific
Jake Skeers, World Socialist Web Site
US Corporate Interests threaten Rural Poor and the Environment
Media Advisory, Friends of the Earth International
CTU Expresses Concern
CTU Media Release
Collapse of Doha Round Cause for Celebration
Arena Media Release -
25 July 2006
Doha Pics
Little graphics from the Doha
round, courtesy ATTAC - Argentina
Failure of Doha Round
Letter to Australian Financial Review from Dr Pat Ranald, Public Interest Advocacy Centre, Australia
Hong Kong Ministerial
Backgrounders and on-the-spot reports
WTO Ruling on Genetically Engineered Crops Would Override International, National and Local Protections
Media Release from Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Our Struggle Against the WTO is Not Over
Statement and Profile of Korean Hunger Strikers
Release the Detainees!
Update from Korean Struggle Mission, Hong Kong
How The WTO's Conference Adopted Its Ministerial Declaration In Hong Kong
Martin Khor, Third World Network
Poor and Outsiders Gain New Allies
Analysis of the Hong Kong "development round"
Jane Kelsey, NZ Herald
Shot by our own Farm Gun
John Minto, New Zealand Herald
Derail the WTO!
New book, hot off the press
Failure of Doha Round no Catastrophe
Prof Robert Hunter Wade, FT.com
Bowing
and Scraping to the WTO
Ron Paul, Member of US Congress
States'
Rights vs. Free Trade
As trade pacts proliferate, states start to howl about lost sovereignty
Paul Magnusson, Business Week Online
Anti-Poverty
Funds Come With Strings Attached
Emad Mekay, Inter-Press Service
The
WTO Loses Friends on the Hill
Paul Magnusson, Business Week
WTO General Council Framework Agreement
WTO
Outcome A Catastrophe for Poor
Press Release from Focus
on the Global South
WTO
Negotiations And The Betrayal Of The Doha Mandate
Vandana Shiva, ZNet Commentary
Pacific States Accession to WTO - NZ's Role
Analysis by Prof Jane Kelsey
Brazil's Cotton Farmers Win Big Trade Victory Against U.S.
Alan Clendenning, AP (TheDetroit News)
WTO Green Room Meeting on Singapore Issues
Report from Third World Network
a new section of this website with news and views from the WTO meeting in Mexico
Outrage over New Zealand Attempts to Silence Commonwealth Secretariat Advisers on WTO
- ARENA Media Release
Statement
and Declaration
by the Alliance for SP and SSM
IATP
NZUSA and ARENA invite you to the launch of a new book (edited by Prof Jane Kelsey) about the Doha Round of WTO Negotiations
by Fatoumata Jawara and Aileen Kwa: "Behind the Scenes at the WTO: the Real World of International Trade Negotiations". Zed Books, London.
US and Europe On Brink of Trade War
RHC
Aziz Choudry, ZNet
Cap Reform Will Not Stop Dumping
Dumping And The Subsidy Debate In WTO
Dr. Vandana Shiva
US beats Egypt with trade stick
Edward Alden, Public Citizen
India
for cross-border trade under GATS
PTI
By Villy G. Cabuag and Jeremaiah M. Opiniano
OFW Journalism Consortium
Massive Protest Roils Downtown
20 arrested as 2,000 demonstrate against international ag conference, Sacramento
Dorothy Korber, Terri Hardy and Elizabeth Hume, the Sacramento Bee
The Mexican Experience and Lessons for WTO Negotiations on the Agreement on Agriculture
Laura Carlsen, Americas Program, Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC)
WTO Negotiating Process To Cancun Worsens
Aileen Kwa, Focus
Sleeping Beauty And Prince Charming: Bilateral Deals Are No Fairytale
Aziz Choudry, ZNet Commentary
News Release: MADENZ
Text
NGO concern over public services baseless - WTO envoy
Robert Evans
Demands For Worker Access Emerge As New Hurdle In Services Talks
Inside US Trade
The IMF and World Bank orthodoxy is increasing global poverty
Stephen Byers (former pro-free trade UK Cabinet Minister), Guardian
Aziz Choudry, ZNet Commentary
WTO Agriculture Talks Set to Exacerbate World Hunger
Aileen Kwa, Focus on the Global South
WTO Gridlock: Lowering Expectations and Looking for Scapegoats
Nicola Bullard, Focus on the Global South
WTO, War & Globalization
Aziz Choudry, ZNet
Arena Leaflet (PDF File)
(don't have Acrobat Reader? - Click here to get it)
WTO Services Negotiation Update
WTO Up to its Old MAI Tricks Again
By Dr W Rosenberg
Big Business is Not the Answer
Prof Jane Kelsey, NZ Herald
The Road From Doha to Cancun, via Johannesburg
Jane Kelsey takes a look at the WSSD
Arena Challenges Moore's WTO Credentials
Arena Media Release (13 October 2002)
Jane Kelsey
Shaping Up For 'Seattle at the Beach'
Mike Moore's Legacy
Mad Mike Has Left the Building
GATT Watchdog Reviews WTO Boss's Term
The NZ Herald's view
Naomi Koppel, Green Left Weekly, post-mortems Mike Moore
Australia to Host Doha Round Meetings
India, Others Seek Changes in TRIPS to Prevent Biopiracy
Whose
Beat Should We Dance To?
By
Aziz Choudry
US Reneges on Textile Deal with Pakistan
Different Chemist, Same Medicine
Aziz Choudry (ZNet) compares Supachai with Mike Moore
US Refuses to Cut Its Own Subsidies
Read results, reports, and analyses of the
WTO 4th Ministerial meeting at Doha, Qatar 9-13 Nov
Arena Media Release