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The Disaster that is the HK Ministerial Declaration
"All the developing world has got is a hollow end date for subsidies in exchange for a bad deal in the rest of agriculture, a bad deal in industry
and a bad deal in services."
(20/12/2005)
EU to Still Provide 55 Billion Euros in Export Supports
The US and EU have deceived the developing world in this Ministerial. Whilst loud on rhetoric about "Development", this has descended into a Doha Deception Round.
(20/12/2005)
Hong Kong: VC demands liberation of imprisoned farmers
Many citizens (more than 1000) from different countries, have been arrested by the Hong Kong authorities during the last two days, 17 and 18th of December 2005. (19/12/2005)
WTO: Farmers curbed
What stands out about the action in Hong Kong around the 6th Ministerial Meeting of the WTO, that draws to a close today, has been the creativity of the mobilizations of pacific resistance, where culture and its different expressions have been a meeting point for the thousands of delegates from all around the planet. (18/12/2005)
WTO fiasco: Lamy spins deception deal
The unholy trio of the EU, US and Pascal Lamy succeeded in their attempt to force developing countries into accepting a Ministerial Declaration that further forecloses the development of countries of the South. (18/12/2005)
Farmers urge Indian Commerce Minister to go home
A delegation of farmers from the International peasant movement La Via Campesina, protested today in front of the Indian Embassy in Hong Kong. (16/12/2005)
WTO: Human rights as commodities
The WTO has instituted capital as a new subject of rights, formulated around commercial interests, a fact which places corporations at an equivalent or higher level than that of people - and States -, with the aggravating factor that the former have the power and the resources to make their interests prevail over any other consideration. (16/12/2005)
Negotiations Update: 15 December
This evening marks the midway point of the Hong Kong Ministerial. There is as yet no clarity where the balance will tip in all the main areas of negotiations. There is clearly high ambition from the US and EU to lock-in more “progress” on NAMA and agriculture than what is currently reflected in the main draft text eg. defining the structure of the formulas, the type of flexibilities. (15/12/2005)
Hong Kong: Women farmers challenge the WTO
The WTO would change nothing by adding a few social or gender considerations to some of its texts. Women farmers want the WTO out of agriculture and women's lives, without which, equality will never arrive for them. (15/12/2005)
WTO ministerial begins amid protests
As the march from Victoria Park reached the Wan Chai cargo area next to the Convention Centre, around 75 Korean farmers jumped into the sea and attempted to swim to the Convention Centre before being picked by up the coast guard. (13/12/2005)
WTO opening ceremony told: “WTO kills peasants’
Over forty unannounced protestors from across the world joined together inside the opening ceremony of the WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong to protest at the WTO’s ongoing drive towards liberalisation. (13/12/2005)
The Development Package: Deceptive and Dangerous
With the negotiations stalemated in the key areas, the WTO Secretariat and the big trade powers are using a scheme of pushing through a “development package” to pass off the current ministerial conference as a success – when the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial is by definition, already a failure. (13/12/2005)
War by several means - bombs and the WTO
The ongoing talks at the World Trade Organization demonstrate how free trade and other neo-liberal economic policies are imposed on people through unequal and undemocratic negotiations. But there is another way: by bombs. (13/12/2005)
Update on the Negotiations
There was a short meeting of the Core Group on services on the 12th attended by 8 delegations. At the meeting, the group discussed the language on services: Paras 19 – 21 of the main draft text, and Annex C. (13/12/2005)
Kong yee sai mau
More than 4,000 workers, farmers, migrant workers chanting "kong yee sai mau " (no to WTO) marched through the bustling commercial district of Hong Kong on day one of the Peoples' Action Week, which will continue throughout the WTO ministerial from 13-18 December. (11/12/2005)
Lamy: dishonest broker in trade talks
Lamy has proven himself to be a dishonest broker for developing countries. Members have been given an assurance on the 2nd December General Council meeting that the cover note that was attached to the 1 December draft would be retained on the draft text transmitted to Hong Kong. (10/12/2005)
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