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What future for seeds under the African Free Trade Area?

23 July 2023 - by GRAIN, Mohamed Coulibaly

The African Union is putting the finishing touches to the draft protocol on intellectual property rights to the agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Once ratified, this text will form an integral part of the (...)
The WTO and Vaccinations: Greed and Profits Win

3 August 2022 - by Prabir Purkayastha

The UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima had appealed before the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference in Geneva that the world would face a grim future if patent waivers did not take place. At a press conference, Byanyima had said, “In a (...)
The Rotten Roots of the IMF and the World Bank

16 June 2022 - by Jamie Martin, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

A conversation with Jamie Martin about the imperial origins of the world’s economic governance, imagining an alternative to these institutions, and his new book, The Meddlers. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have long been (...)
For the lifting of patents on anti-covid vaccines, let’s mobilize together at the WTO and G20 meeting!

27 September 2021 - by Collectif Brevets sur les vaccins anti-covid, stop ! Réquisition

The WTO TRIPS Council meets on 13 and 14 October in Geneva. The G20 meets in Rome on 30 and 31 October. Let us use these dates to raise the demand for the lifting of patents, for technology transfers, for universal, immediate and free (...)
Immunity is liberty

17 June 2021 - by Amitabha Sarkar

We publish this important article by Amitabha Sarkar from India, scholar of international development of health politics, member of the People’s Health Movement (PHM India) and associated with the Transnational Institute (TNI). His article (...)
An ABC of the ailing World Trade Organization

18 February 2020 - by CADTM

The IMF and the World Bank were not the only institutions to emerge to consolidate the world’s economy after World War II. Discussions between Allies, mainly the United States and Great Britain, concluded with the notion of an international trade (...)
Final statement of the Peoples’ Summit “WTO Out, Building Sovereignty”

29 December 2017 - by Confluencia fuera OMC

The Peoples’ Summit “WTO Out, Building Sovereignty” gathered on December 11-13, 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, against the XI Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in this city. The networks and trade unions, human (...)
Kathmandu Declaration of South Asia Peasants’ Convergence

14 March 2017 - by Collective

We, the representatives of South Asian peasant organizations, agricultural labourer unions, plantation workers unions, young farmers, women, landless and Dalits, Adivasis, small and marginal farmers, pastoralist and herders and other small food (...)
UNCTAD14: A mirage of distorting mirrors

12 September 2016 - by Yash Tandon

People not versed in the complexities of the diplomatic world of distorted mirror images in Geneva or Accra or Nairobi may wonder in awe at the agreements negotiated in their name by their representatives in multilateral forums like UNCTAD. But, (...)
No to WTO and Free Trade Agreements

’TTIP Stalls, WTO and FTAs Must Fall’

9 September 2016 - by La Via Campesina

On September the 10th, the International Day of Action Against WTO, La Via Campesina, the International Peasant Movement that brings together over 200 million peasants from 164 member organisations in 73 countries, commemorates the death of Lee (...)
BRICS face brewing external capitalist crisis and growing internal strife

5 February 2016 - by Patrick Bond

Behind the current capitalist crisis lies the tendency to over-accumulate and generate gluts. Whereas the BRICS bloc’s elites pretend to be offering an alternative, they in fact are trying very hard to make the world system work for their own (...)
The free trade agreements : contempt for citizens, sovereignty for multinationals

8 January 2016 - by Robert Joumard

They are called TAFTA, TiSA, TTIP, TTP, CETA – and many other names beside. Everything is done so that nobody understands anything and so that citizens will not be interested. For greater clarity, here we are summing up the very numerous partial (...)
Africa draws red lines on the sands of the WTO ministerial

4 January 2016 - by Yash Tandon

At the ongoing WTO Ministerial in Nairobi, Kenya, Africa must be prepared to accept no deal than accept a bad one. It is time for progressive forces in the Global South to act in peaceful non-violent resistance against the injustices of the (...)
Resisting WTO’s culture of terror and impunity

30 December 2015 - by Yash Tandon

This article seeks to explain the process leading to WTO’s Tenth Ministerial Conference (WTO MC10). The next (final article in this series) will focus on the substance of negotiations. Of course, you cannot separate the process from the (...)
No to WTO and Free Trade Agreements

WTO favours developed countries, not the peasants and poor people

24 December 2015 - by La Via Campesina

Under capitalism production is not for consumption but for trade to make profits. Countries particularly the developing ones are being forced to open their borders and markets to cheap and low quality agricultural commodities from countries such (...)
World Trade Organization (WTO)

Tailored for Sharks

31 December 2013 - by TNI, Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI)

“Tailored for Sharks: How rules are tailored and public interest surrendered to suit corporate interests in the WTO, FTAs and BITs trade and investment regime” Published by Transnational Institute and Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI) Download the (...)
The WTO pushes through bad deal in the final hours; Developed countries and TNCs are the big winners

23 December 2013 - by La Via Campesina, Social Movements for an Alternative Asia (SMAA), Gerak Lawan

Social Movements for an Alternative Asia (SMAA), Gerak Lawan and La Via Campesina. The 9th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) pushed through a Bali Package in the final hours, extending the Conference to December 7, (...)
Demands increase for international mechanisms to punish transnational corporations’ crimes

5 December 2013 - by Stop corporate impunity

Geneva (Switzerland), Bali (Indonesia) – Social movements, networks and organizations from the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity - who protested today in Bali and in Geneva against the corporate capture of the World (...)
La Via Campesina release regarding the WTO bilateral and mini Ministerial Meeting - Geneva, July 2008

Wrong doctor, wrong remedies. WTO pushes for more trade liberalisation to solve food crisis: more fuel on the fire!

23 July 2008 - by La Via Campesina

About 40 hand-selected trade ministers invited to Geneva do not have any mandate to decide on the future of millions of people. La Via Campesina demands an end to the WTO negotiations! The policies of the WTO have de-regulated food and (...)