Water

Hungry in Times of Plenty

By Devinder Sharma

Billion Dollar NAFTA Challenge to California MTBE Ban

Environmental Data Services | By Cat Lazaroff | September 11, 2000 WASHINGTON, DC - An international tribunal has begun considering a claim that the United States must pay a foreign investor almost $1 billion because of a California measure to prevent water contamination.

As ag exports grow, Peter gets robbed

Farm and Food File Alan Guebert When stumping for farm votes, any politician worth his snakeskin boots will say the word "exports" as he shakes your hand. If you fail to rise to the bait, the glad-hander quickly will add the phrase "free trade" to convince you he understands farmers.

Protestors, Cops Clash at Summit

Associated Press / Mike Corder MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Anti-globalization protesters battled police and formed a human barricade around the site of an international economic forum on Monday, delaying its start.

NAFTA Arbitration Panel to Consider Opening Its Doors to Canadian NGO

IISD request to submit amicus brief leads to examination by concerned parties of public interest group participation in previously secretive NAFTA investor-state dispute mechanism

Record Harvest Reaping No Joy

Chicago Tribune / By Judith Graham Last spring, farmers in the Corn Belt were dreading the prospect of a hot, dry summer that would parch their fields and shrivel their crops. Now, they're looking at what could be the best harvest of a lifetime--yet chafing at the low prices that accompany such abundance.

Human Reality Hidden in New Free Trade Deal

By AZIZ CHOUDRY* | September 6, 2000 The Singapore and New Zealand Governments are selling their new free trade and investment agreement as an abstraction, unlinked to people's lives. On Batam, an Indonesian territory 40 minutes from Singapore by boat, I saw the human realities that lie behind the deal.

WTO Director General Hits Back at U.N. For Critical Human Rights Report

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U.S. Labor Rights Routinely Violated, Says Human Rights Watch

U.S. Labor Rights Routinely Violated, Says Human Rights Watch Workers' basic rights are routinely violated in the United States because U.S. labor law is so weakly enforced and so filled with loopholes, says Human Rights Watch in a new report released on August 31. "The cards are stacked against workers in the U.S.," said Kenneth Roth, Executive Director. "The U.S.

EU, U.S. Slide Toward Conflict

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union and the United States moved closer to an explosive trade row on Friday when the EU said U.S. proposals to overhaul a multi-billion- dollar tax break scheme for exporters broke global trade rules.