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Appalling Hong Kong trade deal threatens people and environment
HONG-KONG ( CHINA), December 18, 2005 -–Although a face-saving deal was reached on trade issues here today, the global...
18 December, 2005European, US services liberalization proposals threaten people and planet
HONG-KONG ( CHINA), December 16, 2005 -– With World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks in deadlock over the 'General Agreement...
16 December, 2005Shell ignores court order to stop gas flaring in Nigeria – Company faces contempt action
Lagos Nigeria / Brussels Belgium, December 16 - Contempt of court proceedings were today started against the Shell Petroleum...
16 December, 2005Next trade battle: patents on life
HONG KONG (CHINA), December 15, 2005 -- Trade campaigners warned today that another battle over the highly controversial WTO...
15 December, 200560 million people say : “WTO take your hands off our food”
HONG KONG (CHINA), 14th December, 2005 – Campaigners deliver a petition to World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director General Pascal...
14 December, 2005World Trade Talks threaten livelihoods, but fisheries may escape the net
HONG KONG (CHINA), December 13, 2005 – On the day trade ministers from 149 nations meet in Hong Kong...
13 December, 2005Tyranny of free trade exposed in new report
BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) / MONTEVIDEO (URUGUAY) / WASHINGTON DC (US) December 8, 2005 – Only a few days before the...
08 December, 2005Shell fence line communities: Shell CEO must deliver on his promises
Campaign to right Shell’s wrongs continues
08 December, 2005Ministers in Montreal must rescue Climate Talks
Ministers arriving in Montreal for the UN Climate Talks must push ahead for international action and not allow the...
07 December, 2005Climate talks – slow start but real progress can still be made
As the UN Climate Change Talks in Montreal reach the half way point, Friends of the Earth International urged...
02 December, 2005