World Trade Organization
organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade
The World Trade Organization is an international organisation designed by its founders to supervise and liberalise international capital trade.
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- Empirical evidence tends to show that trade liberalisation may entail non-trivial adjustment costs for certain groups.
- page 47, WTO Annual Report 1998, also quoted in Taking liberties: poor people, free trade and trade justice, Christian Aid, 23 September 2004.
- Ecofeminism was first published one year after the Earth Summit, where two important treaties were signed by the governments of the world: the Convention on Biological Diversity and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. There was no World Trade Organization. However, two years after Ecofeminism, the WTO was established, privileging corporate rights, commerce and profits, and further undermining the rights of the Earth, the rights of women and the rights of future generations. We wrote about what globalization implied for nature and women. Every crisis we mentioned is deeper; every expression of violence more brutal.
- When the wealthiest economies claim developing-country status, they harm not only other developed economies but also economies that truly require special and differential treatment. Such disregard for adherence to the WTO rules, including the likely disregard of any future rules, cannot continue to go unchecked.
