Archive - sept. 2013 - Signon Statement

Aujourd’hui, alors que les gouvernements se réunissent à Genève pour négocier une proposition d’Accord sur le commerce des services (ACS), 345 organisations représentant des centaines de millions de personnes dans presque tous les pays en développement et développés, ont appelé les gouvernements à abandonner les discussions. Parmi les signataires figurent 42 grands réseaux internationaux et régionaux, comme l’Internationale des services publics (PSI), UNI Global Union, la Fédération Syndicale européenne des Services Publics (FSESP), l’IndustriALL Global Union, l’Union interntionale des travailleurs de l’agriculture (UITA), et le réseau ATTAC européen. La lettre a été organisée par le réseau OWINFS.

Today, as governments meet in Geneva to negotiate a proposed Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), 345 organizations representing hundreds of thousands of people from nearly every developing and developed country, called on governments to abandon the talks. Among the endorsers were 42 major international and regional networks such as Public Services International (PSI), UNI Global Union, the European Federation of Public Services Unions (EPSU), the IndustriALL Global Union, the International Union of Food and Allied Workers (IUF), and the ATTAC European network. The letter was organized by the OWINFS network.

DECLARATION OF THE G20 COUNTER-SUMMIT
St Petersburg, 4 September 2013

Social movements and civil society organizations from different parts of the world have met on 3 -4 September 2013 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on the eve of the G20 Summit and in a context of the threat by the United States of America (USA) to attack Syria. With the participation of more than 30 international delegates of world social movements, our G20 Counter-Summit, was hosted by the Post-Globalization Initiative.