World Trade Organization

NGO Protest Greets WTO""s Doha Session

Walden Bello | BusinessWorld

Domestic Demands Limit U.S., EU Bargaining at Trade Talks as Old Issues Foment Discord

WALL STREET JOURNAL | By HELENE COOPER and GEOFF WINESTOCK | November 12, 2001 DOHA, Qatar -- During a closed-door meeting here Friday, a U.S. trade official made an offer that he said Pakistan shouldn't refuse.

WTO Braces for All-Night Session

Associated Press | November 12, 2001 | BY NAOMI KOPPEL; Associated Press Writer DOHA, Qatar - With a deadline looming, movement on two issues important to the United States raised hopes Monday that the World Trade Organization would clinch a deal allowing a new round of global trade talks to get under way.

Farm Policy at Home Contradicts US Demands at WTO Meeting

Press Release from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy For Immediate Release November 12, 2001 Contact: Mark Ritchie - 01612-644-2728 (cell in Qatar) or Sophia Murphy - 01612-203-5633 (cell in Qatar) WTO Agreement on Agriculture Devastating for US Farmers Farm Policy at Home Contradicts US Demands at WTO Meeting

Rules-based" WTO Bends the Rules for Qatar

Green Delegates to WTO Ministerial Conference Condemn "One-Sided Negotiating Process"

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.