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Welcome to HongKong2005.org!
From 13-18 December, 2005, the 6th WTO Ministerial Conference was held in Hong Kong. For those in favor of the current, neo-liberal trade system, the summit's aim was to advance the conclusion of the Doha "development round" of further trade liberalization. Critics all over the world instead wanted to use the opportunity to save environmental sustainability, development, human rights and gender equality from the at times hazardous impacts of economic globalization as it works today.
 What's happened in Hongkong? Find out in our BLOG.
hongkong2005.org is the Heinrich Boell-Foundation's website on the WTO-Ministerial in Hong Kong, its content and background and alternative positions to world trade and its impact. The website aims to give an up-to-date overview of the activities by the HBF, its partners and friends.
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ISSUES: SPECIAL AND DIFFERENTIAL TREATMENT
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Böll Forum: Strategies and Options after Hong Kong
The WTO trade summit in Hong Kong is over. But what now? Heinrich Böll Foundation chairwoman Barbara Unmüßig and Frithjof Schmidt, a member of the European Parliament for the German Green Party, discuss the next steps. more |
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Böll-Forum: Beyond Free Trade
Agriculture is one of the most controversial issues of the WTO. At the Böll Forum in Hong Kong, farmers had their say: What is their experience of the debate on export versus nutritional sovereignty? more |
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All about NAMA
Benefits of tariff reductions are uncertain and free trade is about to threaten industrialization efforts in developing countries: Those are the outcomes of a paper on the likely effects of WTO's NAMA negotiations by Uwe Hermanns more |
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Boell-Forum: Special and Preferential Treatment for Developing Countries
One of the most controversial issues in Hong Kong is one that goes to the heart of the WTO’s founding principles: the exemption of poorer states from certain trade rules that could endanger their economy. more |
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The EU-Responsibility at the WTO: Environment, Gender and Development
A bit more than a month before the WTO’s 6th Ministerial in Hong Kong, on the 9th of November, Members of the European Parliament as well as NGO-representatives and the general public will be discussing the EU’s obligations for the trade-talks. more |
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Finally: A UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity
The UNESCO has created a new international convention on cultural diversity. The step is seen as a big defeat for the US and the WTO, whose rules might be affected by the convention. Authors, actors and artists hailed the decision. more |
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Special and Differential Treatment for Developing Countries
New Global Issue Paper launched more |
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