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Towards 10th WTO Ministerial Conference in Nairobi in December 2015, Chakravarthi Raghavan provides detailed analysis of critical issues faced by developing countries at the WTO to ensure a permanent solution to food security issues and translate into binding commitments the 'best endeavour' decisions of the 2013 Bali Ministerial Conference.

Indian farmers organizations and civil society groups expressed serious concern over India - US agreement over public stockholding issue at the WTO negotiation. In a letter to commerce minister they argued that Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) needs to be rejected not only as a strategy but on its own lack of merit.

De l'éducation au transport, de la finance à la santé, le nouvel accord sur le commerce des services (ACS ou TISA en anglais) pose de graves menaces aux normes de qualité dans de nombreux secteurs des services publics. Ceci a un impact direct sur la vie des citoyens. C'est ce qui est ressorti du premier forum mondial sur le commerce des services co-organisé par l'Internationale des services publics (ISP), Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) et le réseau Notre monde n'est pas à vendre (OWINFS) tenu hier, le 17 octobre 2014 à Genève.

Le Forum sur le commerce mondial des services de l'ISP « De l'AGCS à l'ACS », organisé en partenariat avec la fondation Friedrich Ebert (FES) et le réseau Notre monde n'est pas à vendre (Our World Is Not For Sale, OWINFS), marque la toute première occasion au monde d'exprimer un point de vue critique sur l'Accord sur le commerce des services (ACS). Ce forum réunira des experts mondialement connus, des syndicats des secteurs public et privé, ainsi que des représentant(e)s de la société civile et des gouvernements des quatre coins du monde, afin d'échanger des informations sur l'ACS. Ils se pencheront sur les menaces qui planent sur les services publics, la démocratie et les travailleurs/euses, et organiseront une action en vue de les contrer.

On 17 October 2014, Our World Is Not For Sale (OWINFS) network organised, "Global Trade in Services Forum - From GATS to TISA", in partnership with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) and the Public Services International (PSI). Large number of trade unionists from public and private sector, government representatives, global experts and civil society representatives will take part in the vent.

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Events include:

The Free Trade and Investment Regimes: an Attack on Peoples’ Rights, the Commons and Democracy

The number of disputes brought by investors under international investment agreements (IIAs) has been steadily increasing. This event organized by OWINFS, TWN and Public Citizen at the UNCTAD World Investment Forum 2014 looks at the implications of these disputes for sustainable development, and will discuss actual case studies in particular areas.

In this response to global civil society groups letter, UNCTAD Secretary General Mr M. Kituyi's share the concerns of global civil society groups on the implications of current investment regime and expressed hope that proposed reforms of international investment agreements and investor state dispute settlement system (ISDS) will help to improve them system.

On 3 October 2014 OWINFS organized an event, "Implications for jobs, consumers, and the environment and Africa of including investment in the post-Bali Roadmap" at WTO Public Forum.

On 3 October 2014 OWINFS organized an event, "Trade and Africa: Achieving Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa", at WTO Public Forum 2014