The US is planning to win over developing countries so that they tone down their agressive position on WTO farm negotiations by offering to increase the quota of temporary H1B visas.
New Zealand is one of eight governments (US, EC, Japan, Australia, Switzerland, South Korea and Taiwan) pushing a scheme that would require all countries, rich and poor, to lock open a minimum number of their services to foreign firms
Tony Clarke and Maude Barlow receive 2005 Right Livelihood Awards for their exemplary and longstanding worldwide work for trade justice and the recognition of the fundamental human right to water
Maude Barlow, National Chair of the Council of Canadians, and Tony Clarke, Director of the Polaris Institute, will be receiving the prestigious Right Livelihood Award (RLA) known worldwide as the
We urge you to join with us in demanding immediate accountability from our government for its hypocrisy and challenge its complicity in a process that reflects shamefully on us all
World Trade Organization members must reach agreement on key agriculture 'numbers' at this December's ministerial meeting in Hong Kong to move the talks into 2006
Despite growing fears that World TradeOrganization protests may be stifled, Hong Kong's foreign domestic helpers' Asian Migrants Coordinating Body has begun 'intensifying' a campaign to mobilize its constituents to protest against deregulation policies.
Martin Khor, TWN Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues (Sept05/10)
Many developing countries have objected to the joint attempt by developed countries to introduce a 'benchmarking approach' or 'complementary multilateral methods' to the services negotiations in the World Trade Organisation.
Martin Khor, TWN Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues (Sept05/11)
This year's WIPO General Assembly, which begins Monday 26 September and will run to 5 October, will have a full agenda, with many decisions to be taken that will have significant effect on the future of the organization.
