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December 5th, 2009

MULTILATERALISM 2.0 – will trade ministers take up the challenge?

26 November, 2009
IATP
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is getting ready for its 7th ministerial conference, to take place from November 30 to December 2, 2009 in Geneva. As trade ministers pack their suitcases, a few of them must be asking questions about the value of the trip. More than a year after the July 2008 mini-ministerial collapsed in acrimony, the Doha talks have not moved an inch – except to go backwards, according to some developing country representatives.

Comunicado de prensa: El Comercio mundial acelera la crisis climática

27 November, 2009
Ecologistas en Acción denuncia con el informe “Cambiemos el Comercio, no el Clima” los impactos del llamado “libre” comercio en el Cambio Climático.

Letter from the Director General of the WTO, Mr. Pascal Lamy, to the 400 plus journalists accredited for the 7th Ministerial Conference.

30 November, 2009
WTO

Welcome to the 7th WTO Ministerial Conference! This WTO Ministerial Conference will be a bit different from those many of you have attended in the past. Unlike previous Conferences this meeting will not be a Doha Round negotiating session, but rather a chance for Ministers to reflect on all elements of our work, exchange ideas and extend guidance on the best way forward in the years to come.

Action Press Release: The European Union Must Stop False Solutions to Climate Change

25 November, 2009
Eleven days before the fifteenth Conference of the Parties under the United Nations’ Climate Change Convention that will be held in Copenhagen between the 7th and the 18th of December, an issue which remains controversial is the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) between the European Union and the Indonesian government, designed to support trade liberalisation between the two region as well as increase cooperation in the mitigation of climate change, in part through the provision of 550 million Euros of funding.

Indonesia: Mobilization for Turn Around WTO Campaign and Advocacy

Mobilization for Turn Around WTO Campaign and Advocacy

Time to kill off Doha, Pascal Lamy is wrong: the Doha round of talks offers nothing to the world's poorest countries. The WTO has failed to deliver

25 November, 2009
The Guardian

Monday 30 November marks the 10th anniversary of the Battle in Seattle, the day in 1999 when 100,000 protesters took to the streets and prevented the World Trade Organisation from launching its millennium round of free trade talks. The WTO is marking the occasion with another ministerial summit, and is understandably nervous – not because it fears another spectacular uprising (the summit is being held in genteel Geneva) but because the future of the WTO as a credible institution once again hangs in the balance.

Inside U.S. trade - Finance Fails To Vote On USTR Punke, Siddiqui Nominations

25 November, 2009
Daily News
The Senate Finance Committee did not vote on the nominations of Michael Punke to be Deputy U.S. Trade Representative and Islam Siddiqui to be chief agriculture negotiator at USTR on Saturday, November 21.

November 4th

Carta al Ministro sobre alimentacion y la reunion mini-ministerial de la OMC, Nueva Delhi, Septiembre 2009

OWINFS

Por la presente, nosotros, representantes de 125 organizaciones de más de 50 países nos dirigimos a Usted para instarlo a que defienda los intereses de los agricultores, los trabajadores, los consumidores, las mujeres y el medio ambiente, rechazando a tal efecto una liberalización aún mayor del comercio de alimentos en la Organización Mundial del Comercio, y que reclame en cambio políticas que deriven en seguridad alimentaria y desarrollo rural, y garanticen y protejan las fuentes de sustento de los agricultores a través de la Soberanía Alimentaria.

November 3rd

La Ronda de Doha de la OMC no resolverá la crisis alimentaria mundial –es hora de soluciones reales

OWINFS
2 June, 2008 (All day)
El sistema alimentario mundial se encuentra en crisis. Hay millones de personas en el mundo para quienes no es asequible o no tienen acceso a la comida que necesitan, multiplicando la desnutrición y el hambre en el mundo. Los gobiernos del mundo tienen que actuar ahora. Pero la solución no está en profundizar la desregulación de la producción y el comercio de alimentos. Nosotros, organizaciones no gubernamentales y movimientos sociales preocupados, les instamos a rechazar la postura de los dirigentes de la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC), el Banco Mundial, el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) y la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE), cuando sostienen que concluir la Ronda de Doha es la solución a la crisis actual.

October 6th

Cambiemos el comercio, no el clima

En un sentido o en otro el cambio avanza: o imponemos un cambio de reglas en la economía mundial o no seremos capaces de frenar el cambio climático.