Links naar lobby- en aktiedocumenten van sociale bewegingen over de WTO
(bijlage van het Our World Is Not For Sale-netwerk bij aktieoproep van 7 juli 2008)

Lobby- en aktiedocumenten van sociale bewegingen over de WTO
6 juli 2008
Our World Is Not For Sale

Landbouw:

1. Statement by CSOs on the WTO negotiating situation, and on food and financial crises, at the UNCTAD meeting in Accra (Ghana, 24 april 2008)
http://ourworldisnotforsale.org/showarticle.asp?search=2197

2. Seven Reasons Why the Doha Round Will Not Solve the Food Crisis (IATP)
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/library.cfm?refid=102666

3. Letter to Ministers from 252 organizations in over 50 countries: WTO’s Doha Round Will Not Solve the Global Food Crisis: Civil Society Calls for Real Solutions (3 juni 2008)
http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/pdfs/WTO_Food-Crisis-ENG.pdf

4. US Farm Bill passed, will cast shadow on Doha talks (19 mei 2008)
http://www.twnside.org.sg/title2/wto.info/twninfo20080522.htm


Industriële Goederen (NAMA), banen en ontwikkeling:

1. Developed and developing countries clash over NAMA text (SUNS, 29 mei 2008)
http://www.twnside.org.sg/title2/wto.info/twninfo20080531.htm

2. Statement of Latin American and Caribbean Trade Unions Regarding the New Draft Modalities Text for the WTO NAMA Negotiations (28 mei 2008)
http://www.cioslorit.net/english/noticia1.asp?id=1324

3. NAMA 11 Trade Union Group letter to Ministers (8 juni 2008)
http://globalinfo.nl/administrator/index2.php?option=com_content&sectionid=0&task=edit&hidemainmenu=1&id=1609

Diensten:

1. Letter to Trade Missions of WTO Member Countries: Dangerous Changes in GATS’ Negotiating Rules (OPEN SIGN-ON LETTER)
http://globalinfo.nl/administrator/index2.php?option=com_content&sectionid=0&task=edit&hidemainmenu=1&id=1610

2. Memo to Negotiators: New efforts to move GATS negotiations ignore negative impacts on financial and food crises! On behalf of the Working Group on Services of OWINFS (30 mei 2008)
http://www.somo.nl/html/paginas/pdf/OWINFS_GATS_talking_points_30_5_08_EN.pdf


TRIPS:

1. No change in positions on TRIPS disclosure, "parallelism" by Kanaga Raja (28 juni 2008)
http://www.twnside.org.sg/title2/wto.info/twninfo20080617.htm


Ontwikkeling:

1. OpEd on Meagre Gains and Steep Costs for Developing Countries in Doha Round
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/27/economy.wto

2. Letter from 243 organizations from 90 developing countries to the US Congress:
To Combat Global Poverty and Allow Developing Countries to Develop, Please Reject Pressure to Give President Bush New Fast Track Authority to Push WTO Escalation Via the Doha Round (19 april 2007)
http://www.citizen.org/documents/LetterToCongressWTO-DevelopingCountries4-19-07.pdf


Openbaarmaking van ontbreken van handelsmandaat in de VS:

1. USTR Schwab and the Bush Administration have no authority to sign a Doha deal, by Lori Wallach of Public Citizen (5 maart 2008).
http://globalinfo.nl/administrator/index2.php?option=com_content&sectionid=0&task=edit&hidemainmenu=1&id=1613