Archive - Feb 10, 2006

Furore at Lamys Lecture

9 February, 2006
Protesters disrupted Pascal Lamy's lecture this morning at the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) on East Campus.

G-6 to Meet This Weekend

9 February, 2006
The United States will host a meeting this weekend of senior officials and envoys of the Group-of-Six countries the United States, the European Union, Brazil, India, Australia and Japan to discuss the most difficult issues remaining in the Doha Development Agenda agricultural trade negotiations.

Starting to Write a Text on Agriculture

9 February, 2006
Doha Development Agenda agriculture trade negotiations Chairman Crawford Falconer yesterday began his first attempt to build a text for negotiating modalities by posing questions to members on the central elements of a final agreement trade-distorting domestic support, export competition and market access

Tubo-charging investor sovereignty: investment agreements and corporate colonialism

9 February, 2006
For corporate investors, the body of project and financial law is a frontier against which they continually aim to advance. Reconstruction of a country

List of Questions from the Chair on Agriculture for WTO negotiations

9 February, 2006
a link to documents for the next agriculture week 13-17 February 2006.