World Trade Organization

Poverty Tops Lawmakers"" Concerns in Post WTO China

Reuters | March 6, 2002 | by Tamora Vidaillet BEIJING - From north to south and east to west, delegates at China's annual session of parliament are echoing themes that resonate across the vast country - how to end poverty and corruption and what hardships membership of the world trade bloc will bring.

China to Ratifiy Biosafety Protocol

China Daily | by ZHANG YONG | March 5, 2002 China is to ratify an international convention on biosafety to further regulate the country's development and implementation of modern biotechnologies, according to the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA).

Water Incorporated; The Commodification Of The World""s Water.

Earth Island Journal | Maude Barlow | March 22, 2002 We would like to believe that there is an infinite supply of fresh water on the planet, but that assumption is tragically false. Available fresh water amounts to less than half of one percent of all the water on Earth. The rest is seawater or polar ice. Fresh water is renewable only by rainfall.

EU Tables Proposals on Access to Medicines for Developing Countries with No Drug Production

European Commission | Press Release | March 5, 2002

From Protest to Politics: A Report from Porto Alegre

The Nation | By Marc Cooper | March 11, 2002

Farm Spending May Push WTO Limits

AgJournal | March 4, 2002

The Poor, Alas, Are Still With Us

New Statesman | By Barbara Gunnell | March 4, 2002

China Overhauls Laws, Regulations to Meet WTO Rules

XINHUA NEWS AGENCY | March 4, 2002

Brazil Brings EU and U.S. Before WTO over Farm Subsidies

Agencia Efe | February 26, 2002 Brasilia - Brazil announced Tuesday that it would file complaints against the European Union and the United States before the World Trade Organization (WTO) for unfairly subsidizing their farmers. Agriculture Minister Marcus Vinicius Pratini de Moraes announced the decision at a news conference on the prospects for the upcoming harvest.

Third World Finance Dries Up

The Observer | By Nick Mathiason | February 24, 2002 Investment in the infrastructure of developing countries has collapsed in the past seven years, threatening the lives of millions of people in the world's poorest countries, writes Nick Mathiason.