Archive

agosto 10th, 2003

Call to Cancun: Halt the GATS Negotiations. Take Essential Services, Such As Water, Out of the WTO.

Call to Cancun Ministerial Conference to stop GATS negotiations.

julho 13th

NGOs Send Memo to WTO:

NGOs have sent a joint memorandum to the WTO members on The Need to Improve Internal Transparency and Participation in the WTO.

julho 7th

Keep Investment Pacts Off Cancun's Agenda

6 July, 2003
Since the 1980s, developing countries have signed numerous bilateral investment agreements, yet they receive less than one-third of the world's total foreign direct investment flows.

julho 4th

Agriculture Talks At The WTO Empty On Development

3 July, 2003
Last week, the Agriculture Committee met in the WTO to see if the current deadlock on all aspects of the agreement on agriculture (AoA) can be bridged.

julho 3rd

Members Stick To Their Positions In WTO Agriculture Special Session

2 July, 2003
The European Union agriculture ministers last week agreed on measures for reform of their common agriculture policy.

From Palermo To Cancun: EU Trade Ministers Asked To Stop WTO Expansion

2 July, 2003
In Palermo, the European Union is supposed to decide on its position for the next WTO Ministerial that will take place in Cancun, Mexico, from 10 to 14 September.

julho 1st

MEPs Move Towards Lifting of GMO Moratorium

30 June, 2003
The laws set out stringent requirements for labelling GM products, reflecting the view held by the European Commission that the GM issue is one of consumer choice and not of food safety.

junho 30th

Northern Agriculture Subsidies Attacked At Ecosoc High Lebvel Session

29 June, 2003
The 'evil' generated by this misdirected welfare policy affects poor-country farmers who are financing the social welfare doled out to rich-country farmers, according to Ricupero.

junho 26th

Meeting between U.S. NGOs and Pascal Lamy on June 26, 2003

25 June, 2003
Some of the groups present: National Wildlife Federation, OXFAM U.S., FoE, WWF, Consumers Choice Council, Sierra Club, AFL-CIO, CIEL, Humane Society, Bread for the World, Public Citizen. The meeting lasted for about one hour and was basically a question & answer session.

junho 24th

3rd World Activists Debate Biotech Industry& US Gov't In Sacramento

23 June, 2003
An eclectic crowd of nearly 1,000 filled the Crest Theater Monday night for the only public debate in conjunction with this week's international agriculture conference at the Sacramento Convention Center.