World Trade Organization

Activists Outmaneuver Drug Makers at WTO

Poor Nations Can Ignore Patents to Meet Public-Health Needs Wall Street Journal | November 14, 2001 | By Geoff Winestock and Helene Cooper

Thai Farmers, Aids Activists March On Us Embassy

By Nicola Bullard, Focus on the Global South BANGKOK, 9 November - In one of the first protests on the international day of action against the WTO, more than 1,500 farmers, jasmine rice producers, trade unionists and HIV/AIDS activists marched from Bangkok's World Trade Centre to the US Embassy.

Day Four - Hot and Sweaty in Qatar

Submitted to Grist On-line Magazine From: Mark Ritchie Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 02:04:47 -0600 Day Four - Hot and Sweaty in Qatar

NO NEW ROUND Draft Text of Final Declaration Released in Doha

IATP has received a copy of the Draft Declaration for the Doha Ministerial. The most important news is NO NEW ROUND. Click the URL to read the Draft Ministerial Declaration.:

South Korean Farmers Stage Violent Anti-Import, Anti-WTO Protest

Agence France Presse | November 13, 2001 SEOUL - Thousands of South Korean farmers, enraged with falling rice prices, staged violent protests here Tuesday against imports and US-led globalization as symbolized by the WTO.

WTO Agreement Appears Near -- Agenda for New Global Talks at Stake

Washington Post | November 13, 2001 | By Paul Blustein, Washington Post Staff Writer DOHA, Qatar -- Officials attending a World Trade Organization meeting here, negotiating feverishly into the early morning, appeared to be nearing an agreement to launch a new round of global trade talks.

WTO Nears Broad Generic-Drug Accord; U.S. May Renegotiate Antidumping Rules

Wall Street Journal | November 13, 2001 | By GEOFF WINESTOCK and HELENE COOPER, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

France Threatens to Bolt WTO Talks

Associated Press | November 13, 2001 DOHA, Qatar -- France threatened Tuesday to walk away from negotiations to launch global trade talks over the explosive issue of farm export subsidies, despite two years of work by the World Trade Organization to recover from Seattle's embarrassing failure.

Ag Export Credits Become Bargaining Tool at Trade Talks

Star Tribune (Mpls-St. Paul) | November 13, 2001 The United States is willing to eliminate export credits for its farmers, leaving the European Union (EU) isolated in its insistence on continuing such subsidies, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said Monday during world trade talks in Doha, Qatar.

Revised Ministerial Draft Declaration: Still Harmful to Interests of Developing Countries

Focus on the Global South | November 13, 2001 | Aileen Kwa and Walden Bello The revised draft ministerial declaration issued in the afternoon of Nov. 13 continues to highly detrimental to the interests of developing countries.