Special Websites for Hongkong 2005
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Special Websites for Hongkong 2005
The Hong Kong People’s Alliance on WTO
Launched on 22 September 2004, the Hong Kong People’s Alliance on WTO is a network of grass-root organizations which include trade unions, community labour groups and organisations that represent migrant workers, students, women, church, human rights, research organisations and regional organisations that are based locally in Hong Kong.
IATP's Radio Hong Kong
Radio Hong Kong is a project of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP). Its mission: To provide a timely, engaging and independent voice to the 2005 World Trade Organization ministerial in Hong Kong.
radiohongkong.de (in German only)
radiohongkong.de is the website of German NGO WEED (World Economy, Environment and Development) and the Lutheran Development Service (EED). Video-taped interviews from Hong Kong fed into the internet during the WTO-ministerial are collecting the voices of those whose voices are otherwise silenced by the powerful. The feed also documents the proceedings inside the conference hall as well as the protests on the streets.
NAMAwatch
is a resource for people following the non-agricultural market access (NAMA) negotiations at the World Trade Organisation. The site brings together in one place official documents, research and critical voices, with navigation in English, French and Spanish.
„Our World Is Not for Sale”
is a worldwide network of organizations; activists and social movements committed to challenging trade and investment agreements that advance the interests of the world’s most powerful corporations at the expense of people and the environment. Their vision is a global economy built on principles of economic justice, ecological sustainability, and democratic accountability.
The Seattle to Brussels (S2B) Network
is a pan-European network campaigning to promote a sustainable, socially and democratically accountable system of trade. It includes development, environment, human rights, women's and farmers organisations, trade unions, social movements as well as research institutes. The S2B network was formed in the aftermath of the WTO's 1999 Seattle Ministerial to challenge the corporate-driven agenda of the European Union and other European governments for continued global trade and investment liberalisation. It has also developed as a response to the increasing need for European coordination among NGOs and in solidarity with Southern civil society groups.
Trade-related Groups
The Third World Network
is an independent non-profit international network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North- South issues. Its objectives are to conduct research on economic, social and environmental issues pertaining to the South; to publish books and magazines; to organize and participate in seminars; and to provide a platform representing broadly Southern interests and perspectives at international fora such as the UN conferences and processes.
Via Campesina
The WTO-meeting in Hong Kong this December is the meeting after Cancun, Mexico, after Doha, Qatar, and after Seattle. Free trade policies, like those being negotiated in the WTO, are driving family farmers, peasants and indigenous people off the land, around the world, North and South, East and West. As a result, farmers, peasants, the landless, farm workers, women, forest people and indigenous people around the world have come together in the Via Campesina and are demanding "WTO Out of Agriculture" and have put forth the alternative of "peoples food sovereignty."
Global Trade Watch (GTW)
promotes democracy by challenging corporate globalization, arguing that the current globalization model is neither a random inevitability nor “free trade.” Their work seeks to make the measurable outcomes of this model accessible to the public, press, and policy-makers, while emphasizing that if the results are not acceptable, the model can and must be changed or replaced. GTW works on an array of globalization issues, including health and safety, environmental protection, economic justice, and democratic, accountable governance.
FoEI and FoEE Trade, Environment, Sustainability Campaign
The Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) and Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE) campaigns on Trade, Environment and Sustainability are campaigning to replace corporate globalization with fair and sustainable economies, based on democracy, diversity, reduced consumption, cooperation and caution. The unsustainable use of energy, fish, forests, metals and minerals, land, water and biodiversity is to be stopped and people's livelihoods protected.
The South Centre
The South Centre has grown out of the work and experience of the South Commission and its follow-up office, and from recognition of the need for enhanced South-South co-operation. It is intended to meet the need for analysis of development problems and experience, as well as to provide intellectual and policy support required by developing countries for collective and individual action in the international arena. Currently, 49 countries are members of the South Centre.
IGTN
The International Gender and Trade Network is a network of feminist gender specialists who provide technical information on gender and trade issues to women's groups, NGOs, social movements and governments. IGTN acts as a political catalyst to enlarge the space for a critical feminist perspective and global action on trade and globalization issues. It is a Southern-led network that builds South/North cooperation in the work of developing more just and democratic policy from a critical feminist perspective.
