Archive

October 3rd, 2005

A New Push to ?Re-energize? Services

2 October, 2005
A new core group of a dozen members of the World Trade Organization tasked recently to 're-energize' the stalled Doha Development Agenda service negotiations has an uphill task ahead of it

Farmers Protests against WTO in Mumbai

2 October, 2005
More than 50,000 farmers from 14 states of India including Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Uttranchal, Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Kerala and Maharashtra belonging to different farmers unions participated in a huge Rally against WTO in Mumbai.

October 1st

Services industry coalition trying, without success, to change view in congress

30 September, 2005
Immigration, an issue of well-documented political toxicity within the United States, is now also complicating efforts to strike a deal in the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations.

September 30th

US dangles visa bait to avoid farm trouble at WTO

29 September, 2005
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.

September 29th

ACTION ALERT: NZ part of huge GATS offensive in Geneva

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

New Zealand GATS offensive in Geneva makes mockery of Doha 'Development' Agenda

28 September, 2005
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

Links to all non-papers in the Services benchmark discussion

28 September, 2005
Most of these papers are expected to become officially tabled papers in the formal services negotiations

2005 Right Livelihood Awards honour pioneers for justice, fair trade and cultural renewal

28 September, 2005
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

Press Release: Canadian activists receive ?alternative Nobel prize?

28 September, 2005
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

September 28th

Plugging 'Numbers' Into the DDA

27 September, 2005
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