Archive - Mar 2008 - Article

Environment and animal rights groups are calling on the European Union to appeal a ruling made by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) which they say allows the US and Canada to force hormone-fed beef on Europe.

In 2008, the United Nations (UN) has chosen to hold its major trade and development conference in Africa. Ministers from all around the world will meet in Accra, the capital of Ghana, starting April 20. In addition to ministers, a crowd of 4,000 international civil servants, civil society activists, business representatives, and journalists is expected to descend on the usually discrete West African capital.

Developing countries should push for a compromise deal in the six-year-old effort to revamp free trade rules and help restore the global economy's health, a United Nations official said on Tuesday.

In late 2007 WIDE organised a successful consultation on EU bilateral and regional free trade agreements and gender, which brought together members of WIDE, academics, researchers, non-governmental organisation activists and representatives of the European Commission and the private sector.

Amid current political noise brought about by the Arroyo government

The Group of 33 developing countries has denounced the draft text on the special safeguard mechanism in the current Doha Development Round of World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks as

Representatives of local communities and some concerned NGOs have rejected the Waterfront Sugarland City project and have demanded that the government

New Public Citizen Report Identifies Changes to WTO, NAFTA Rules Needed to Facilitate Candidates

Link to a new communication by the U.S. on product-specific limits for the Blue Box category of domestic support

Link to a new set of proposals by the Chair of the NAMA negotiations