Archive - sept. 29, 2005

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