Links naar lobby- en aktiedocumenten van sociale bewegingen over de WTO

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