Pledge Against Protectionism: Statements from Civil Society Organizations
Original Publication Date: 17 December, 2011 A wide variety of civil society representatives and experts from the global Our World Is Not for Sale (OWINFS) network, present in Geneva for the 8th...
View ArticleStatement of Our World Is Not for Sale (OWINFS) on the de Schutter-WTO Debate
Original Publication Date: 17 December, 2011OWINFS Supports De Schutter: WTO has Negative Impact on Global Food Security! We Demand Trade Rules that Support Food Security and Sovereigntyleer más
View ArticleWTO 8th Ministerial Failed to Respond to Food, Jobs and Financial Crises, 99%...
Original Publication Date: 17 December, 2011 This afternoon, a group of civil society from the global Our World Is Not for Sale (OWINFS) network, present in Geneva for the 8th Ministerial meeting of...
View ArticleThe twists and turns of the Doha talks and the WTO - Martin Khor, South Centre
Original Publication Date: 28 October, 2012 Speech of Martin Khor at OWINFS Panel at the WTO Public Forum, September 26, 2012 analyses what the future holds for the WTO, in particular in relation to...
View ArticleMultilateral Trade System: From Impasse to Development? A speech by Jayant...
Original Publication Date: 28 October, 2012 Ambassador Jayant Dasgupta, Permanent Representative of India to the WTO speaks forum major issues at the event organized by OWINFS at WTO Public Forum on...
View ArticleTowards an alternative narrative for the multilateral trading system
Original Publication Date: 28 October, 2012 In a presentation at the UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Board panel discussion on 18 September by Ambassador Faizel Ismail, Permanent Representative of South...
View ArticleTowards an alternative narrative for the multilateral trading system
Original Publication Date: 28 October, 2012 In a presentation at the UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Board panel discussion on 18 September by Ambassador Faizel Ismail, Permanent Representative of South...
View ArticleThe WTO impasse and the possible roads ahead - a development perspective
Original Publication Date: 1 November, 2012 At a lively session organized by OWINFS on 26 September, 2012 as part of the WTO’s Public Forum, Ambassadors of developing countries and other experts...
View ArticleBITs ‘not decisive in attracting investment', says South Africa
Original Publication Date: 27 September, 2012 South Africa's Deputy Director General from the Department of Trade and Industry, Mr. Xavier Carim, remarked that 'South African government's experience...
View ArticleBITs, FTAs and damaging effects of their investment chapters
Original Publication Date: 2 October, 2012 The damaging effects of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) and the investment chapters of North-South Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) were highlighted at a...
View ArticleNew LDC accession guidelines could harm LDCs, say NGOs
Original Publication Date: 27 July, 2012 Global Civil society groups warned that new guidelines for the accession of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) could seriously harm, rather than help, the...
View ArticleNGOs object to Lamy panel, call for its dissolution
Original Publication Date: 2 August, 2012 In a letter to the Director-General dated 25 June 2012, global civil society groups said that the "WTO Panel on Defining the Future of Trade", more than half...
View ArticleLDC Watch and OWINFS Call on the WTO TRIPS Council Chair to Stop the Ongoing...
Original Publication Date: 21 May, 2013 LDC Watch and Our World Is Not For Sale Call on the WTO TRIPS Council Chair to Stop the Ongoing Unfair Informal Negotiations on the LDC TRIPS Waiver Extension...
View ArticleInternational civil society opposes binding rules on “Trade Facilitation” in...
Original Publication Date: 6 June, 2013 In a letter to WTO member governments, 188 organizations representing a wide diversity of civil society from developing and developed countries, called on...
View ArticleLDCs get eight more years of exemption from WTO - TRIPS rules
Original Publication Date: 11 June, 2013 Today (11 June 2013) the WTO-Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rules (TRIPS) Council adopted a decision granting Least Developed Countries (LDCs) an...
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View ArticleVideo: Press Conference, G20 Counter-Summit, St-Petersburg, Sept. 2, 2013
Original Publication Date: 2 September, 2013 G20 Counter-Summit Press Conference St-Petersburg, Sept. 2, 2013 With Boris Kagarlitsky (Institute for Globalization and Social Movements, IGSO, Russia),...
View ArticleG20 Counter-Summit program, St-Petersburg, Russia
Venue: International Business Center (www.spbmdc.ru), St. Petersburg, naberezhnaja Reki Smolenki 2, Metro VasileostrovskayaSEPTEMBER 3, 201310.00 – 12.00– Registration, book-bazaar (books of speakers...
View ArticleVIDEOS G20 Counter-Summit: OPENING / Resisting Global Corporate Governance:...
G20 Counter-Summit, St-Petersburg, Russia OPENING: Resisting Global Corporate Governance: Voices For System Changeleer más
View ArticleVIDEOS: G20 Counter-Summit, Opening Conference: "G20 and the Global Crisis on...
G20 Counter-Summit, Opening Conference: "G20 and the Global Crisis on the Eve of an Attack Against Syria", Sept. 3, 2013 With Samir Amin (Third World Network/Egypt-France), Dorothy Guerrero (Focus on...
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