Trade and Regional Integration
- Fri Jan 25 2008
International peasents movement supports global day of action
As part of the world social movement, La Via Campesina has called its members - national peasant's organizations all over the world to support the Global Day of Action organised on January the 26th.
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Mon Jan 21 2008
Doha round stuck on issues of development (again)
African negotiators are concerned that their development concerns have been sidelined in the much vaunted Doha Development Round of negotiations at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Wed Jan 16 2008
Deadline for participation at UNCTAD XII
UNCTAD XII and its accompanying Civil Society Forum in Accra is scheduled to take place from 20-25 April, but the deadline for non-accredited organisations to apply for accreditation is 31 January.
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Fri Dec 28 2007
EU Africa final declaration
Civil society activists from Africa and Europe met in Lisbon from 7-9 December 2007 to express their opposition to free trade and investment policies that European and African governments are implementing through the "Africa- EU Strategic Partnership".
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Mon Dec 10 2007
Food sovereignty: the small farmer's alternative to global warming
The Indonesian Peasant's Union (SPI) and The international peasant's movement La Via Campesina are inviting the press to a media event on 10 December 2007 in Bali, where the UN climate change conference is taking place.
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Fri Dec 07 2007
Bali trade ministerial: Keep unfair trade out of climate talks
Informal trade talks scheduled to take place in Bali this weekend could seriously threaten the opportunity for a just and sustainable way forward on tackling climate change, Friends of the Earth International warned on the eve of the talks (Friday).
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Wed Nov 28 2007
Naomi Klein's book: "The shock doctrine"
According to J. Stiglitz this book is Klein’s ambitious look at the economic history of the last 50 years and the rise of free-market fundamentalism around the world. "Disaster capitalism," as she calls it, is a violent system that sometimes requires terror to do its job.
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Mon Nov 05 2007
Court bid to stop EPA "human rights violations"
Two lobby groups have filed a law suit in Kenya to halt the signing of the economic partnership agreement (EPA) being negotiated between the European Union and the east and southern African group.
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Thu Nov 01 2007
Aid For Trade Global Review
The WTO will host “Mobilizing Aid for Trade: A Global Review” at its Geneva headquarters on 20-21 November 2007.
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Thu Oct 18 2007
IBSA committed to reforms in U.N.
India, Brazil and South Africa committed themselves to jointly pursue reforms in the United Nations and a poor-friendly conclusion to the Doha Round of trade talks.
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