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Global Movement to Turn Around the WTO

By imposing a strongly enforced regime of new corporate rights and limits on government regulation, the World Trade Organization (WTO) threatens sovereignty, democracy, worker's rights and environmental protections. A worldwide network of organizations, activists and social movements are committed to challenging trade and investment agreements that advance the interest of the world's most powerful corporations at the expense of the people and the environment. Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch is a founding member of the global coalition Our World Is Not for Sale (OWINFS).

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Public Citizen Factsheets, Reports & Memos

For Richer or Poorer: Facts and Fiction about Trade and Economic Gains in the Developed World and Economic Results of the WTO in the U.S. (March 10, 2010)
Introduction to Whose Trade Organization?: It's Not About Trade (March 5, 2009)
Reporters' Memo: Buy America Brouhaha: What are the EU and Canada Hollering About? Their WTO Procurement Exceptions Are (Wisely) Much Broader than the U.S. Stimulus Proposal (February 5, 2009)
Presidential Candidates' Key Proposals on Health Care and Climate Will Require WTO Modifications (February 28, 2008)
Reporters Memo: Next Week's Bizarre WTO Mini Ministerial (July 17, 2008)

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Public Citizen Press Releases & Statements

Reporters' Memo: WTO's Legitimacy So Diminished that Simply Agreeing on Anything Is Touted as Success, Even as Doha Round WTO Expansion Agenda Remains Deadlocked for More Than a Decade (December 6, 2013)
Statement of Lori Wallach: WTO's Legitimacy So Weak that Ability to Agree on Anything Is Touted as Success (December 6, 2013)
Public Citizen Launches Trade Data Center (October 1, 2010)
On Eve of G-20 Summit, Canadian Government Bashes Others for Trade Distortions While Poised to OK Huge Subsidy for Asbestos Exports (June 24, 2010)
President Obama Needs to Replace Doha Round Agenda with WTO Turnaround Plan (December 2, 2009)

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Members of Congress & Civil Society Organizations Speak Out

OWINFS Opposes Convening Mini-Ministerial on WTO Subjects at WEF in Davis (January 22, 2014)
OWINFS Statement: United States Fails to Completely Block New Flexibilities for Food Security in Bali WTO Talks (December 7, 2013)
OWINFS: Global Civil Society Calls for a Permanent solution to G33 Food Security Proposal in WTO (November 20, 2013)
OWINFS Statement: WTO Turnaround 2013: Food, Jobs and Sustainable Development First (October 2013)
OWINFS Statement: WTO Turnaround: Food, Jobs and Sustainable Development First - Call to Action! (December 17, 2011)

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Other Resources

Article by Lori Wallach and Deborah James: Why the WTO Doha Round Talks Collapsed: and a Path Forward (August 14, 2006)
Inside U.S. Trade: Study Cited as Proof of Small Developing Country Gains in WTO (November 25, 2005)

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