World Trade Organization

Protest Group Shifts Tactics At WTO Talks

By Paul Blustein | Washington Post

Equality at Trade Talks: No Country Gets a Vote

By JOSEPH KAHN | REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK DOHA, Qatar, Nov. 11 ?World trade ministers say they fear that they will deliver a shock to the world economy unless they agree to liberalize trade at their meeting here. But the only shocking thing may be if they manage to agree on anything at all.

Expose of British Trade Negotiators Collusion With Big Business

Special to CorpWatch November 9, 2001 LONDON -- Three confidential documents from inside the World Trade Organization Secretariat and a group of captains of London finance, who call themselves the "British Invisibles," reveal the extraordinary secret entanglement of industry with government in designing European and American proposals for radical pro-business changes in WTO rules.

NGOs Deliver Petition to WTO, Call for "Health Before Wealth"

By: Agence | France Presse DOHA, Nov 11 Three non-governmental organisations headed by Oxfam International handed the WTO a petition signed by 32,000 people from around the world Sunday that urged the global trade body to "put health before wealth."

The Battle of Doha

By: By MARTIN WALKER | United Press International DOHA, Qatar, Nov. 11 The most important battlefront in the war on terrorism could be a long way from Afghanistan, by the shimmering waters and under the burning sun of the Persian Gulf, where negotiators from 142 countries are trying to hammer out a new deal on world trade.

Bove Continues WTO Fight in Qatar

Associated Press | November 12, 2001 | TAREK AL-ISSAWI; Associated Press Writer DOHA, Qatar - Jailed in France and tear gassed in Seattle, French farm activist Jose Bove had to raise a ruckus again to get to the World Trade Organization meeting in Qatar - only to end up feeling sidelined.

WTO Talks Enter Final Stage with Greenpeace Opposing Development Round

Canada NewsWire | November 12, 2001 DOHA, QATAR - As World Trade Organization talks enter the final phase in Doha, they remain gridlocked over a number of important issues. Canada is chairing one of the committees that is the most divisive: investment issues.

It""s Gandhi vs Moore, say angry NGOs, Report from Financial Express

by Rohit Bansal

Third Day of WTO Meeting Shows Advance on Agriculture, Lags on Other Problems

Inside U.S. Trade | November 12, 2001

Falling Down in Qatar?

AlterNet | Tamara Straus | November 12, 2001 The latest World Trade Organization meeting in Doha, Qatar resembles previous WTO meetings about as much as Hollywood musicals resemble film noir. They might live in the same universe of style, but they are galaxies apart in substance.