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The World Trade Organization (WTO)'s 13 Ministerial Conference (MC13) will take place in Abu Dhabi, February 26-29, 2024.
At least 50 civil society representatives will be in person at MC13 from 21 countries: Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Spain, Switzerland, Uganda, the United States, and Zimbabwe; Nigerians were denied visas. For the media availability list of CSO experts in Abu Dhabi for MC13.
There is a very anti-development text on the table in fisheries subsidies, and the agriculture outcomes will likely do little to address global food security while punting serious reforms off into the future.
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Perhaps most existentially, developed countries are pushing a "WTO reform" agenda that threatens the very basis of the WTO-multilateralism and consensus-in favor of plurilaterals, differentiation among developing countries, and an even more direct role and power for corporations - expanding the failed WTO model rather than transforming it.
Join us to hear from communities who will be directly affected by the outcome of the WTO's negotiations this week, but have been sidelined by the WTO, in an effort to keep the illegal Green Rooms and anti-development negotiations out of the light of day. For those not in Abu Dhabi, the event will also be livestreamed at [ Ссылка ].
When: *2pm 12:00 Neon Monday, February 26, 2024
Where: ADNEC Abu Dhabi Convention Center, Room 2 (after Hall 11, past the ICC).
Speakers include
• Deborah James, Director of International Programs at Center for Economic and Policy Research and Facilitator of Our World Is Not for Sale global network, USA, on WTO process and history
• Victor Menotti, Demand Climate Justice, Slovenia, on "environmental" JSIS
• Parminder Jeet Singh, JustNet Coalition, India, the e-commerce moratorium
• Fikerman Saragih, KIARA fisherfolk organization, Indonesia, on fisheries negotiations
• Jane Kelsey, Professor Emeritus at University of Auckland, New Zealand, on the Joint Statement Initiatives and WTO's lack of democracy
• Ranja Sengupta, Senior Researcher with Third World Network, India, on agriculture and food security
Kinda Mohamadieh, Senior Researcher & Legal Advisor with Third World Network, Lebanon, on rich country efforts to undermine special and differential treatment and the negotiations on the Ministerial Declaration
• Africa Kiiza, Africa Trade Network, Uganda, on concerns across Africa
• Diego Lopez, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), on workers' rights issues
Video of a previous press conference is available here: [ Ссылка ] briefing
For more information, please see www.ourworldisnotforsale.net
The Our World Is Not For Sale (OWINFS) is a network of organizations and social movements worldwide fighting the current model of corporate globalization embodied in global trading system. OWINFS is committed to a sustainable, socially just, democratic, and accountable multilateral trading system.
