Globalization

WTO Doha Negotiations Threaten to Encourage Inefficient Food Aid Delivery

Revised rules on food aid in the latest negotiating text at the World Trade Organization fail to reduce adequately the scope for the sale of food aid and encourage a highly wasteful, trade distorting system, according to a letter sent to trade ministers today from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Canadian Foodgrains Bank and Oxfam International.

The Treaty Database

The Treaty Database is comprehensive overview of the U.S. history of joining or ignoring multilateral treaties. It also contains a summary of US government treaty actions broken down by presidential administration dating back to 1893. Besides the Treaty Database there are additional links to the Treaty Database Factsheet, press release and research data for the report.

Opponents Of Upcoming Davos Forum Plan To Block Access To Participants

Agence France Presse | December 8, 2003 Opponents of the World Economic Forum in Davos said Monday they will disrupt the annual event this January by blocking the access to participants. The "Swiss anti-WTO coordination" said it plans to respond to the "militarisation" of the 2004 forum, where some 6,500 soldiers are expected to be dispatched.

Trade Summit Ready For Onslaught

Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL) | By Doreen Hemlock | August 25, 2003 With just three months to go before Miami hosts a historic Americas trade ministers' meeting, organizers say they're on track to raise at least $10 million to fund the event -- much of it for security to handle as many as 6,000 delegates and 100,000 protesters expected to attend.