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Report counters World Bank’s “high risk / high reward” strategy
As World Bank representatives gather in Dubai for the 2003 World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings, Environmental Defense, Friends of the...
19 September, 2003Declaration of international conference of environmental and human rights, Cartagena
In September 2003 the International Conference of Environmental Rights and Human Rights was held in Cartagena, Colombia. Co-organised by...
18 September, 2003Persecuted Peruvian farmers oppose meeting of ministers with mining giants
LIMA (PERU) - Peruvian communities denounce tomorrow’s gathering of mining ministers and the mining industry as an illegitimate forum...
16 September, 2003WTO talks collapse in Cancun
CANCUN (MEXICO) - The European Union and the United States drove the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks here to...
15 September, 2003For forests WTO stands for “World Terror Order”
Together with climate change, the WTO style trade is the most serious threat to biodiversity of our times, for...
13 September, 2003Europe and US push developing countries to edge of cliff
CANCUN, MEXICO - A draft text released today by World Trade Organisation (WTO) ‘facilitators’ completely sidelines developing country concerns,...
13 September, 2003Negotiations update from the World Trade Organisation
CANCUN (MEXICO) - A major new block of developing countries formally rejected yesterday (Thursday) the so-called ‘new issues’ that...
12 September, 2003US-Europe GM trade war: WTO and US challenged to listen to the public
CANCUN (MEXICO) / BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) - Stakes were raised today in the Europe-US trade dispute over genetically modified (GM)...
11 September, 2003On the death of South Korean farmer, Lee Kyung-Hae and the WTO’s negotiations on agriculture
CANCUN (MEXICO) - On 10 September 2003, during the World Trade Organisation (WTO)’s Fifth Ministerial in Cancun, Mexico, Lee...
11 September, 2003Public bite back in GMO trade war
CANCUN (MEXICO) - Stakes were raised today in the Europe-US trade dispute over genetically modified (GM) food and farming...
11 September, 2003