Aziz Choudry - Latest News [Page 3]
Prising Open The Pacific: New Trade Deals
Friday, 14 September 2001, 11:21 am | Aziz Choudry
The winds of change, so the cliché goes, are blowing across the Pacific. Yet looking at the background to two regional trade agreements launched in August makes me think that sometimes the more things change, the more they stay the same. More >>
GATS: $ervices With A $mile?
Friday, 27 July 2001, 11:08 am | Aziz Choudry
Anti-globalisation activists have another international agreement in their sights. The World Trade Organisation is worried. It fears that the growing campaign against GATS - the General Agreement on Trade in Services - which took effect in 1995 under ... More >>
We Must Mobilise Against A Miasma of Mini-MAIs
Monday, 9 July 2001, 12:47 am | Aziz Choudry
Article by Aziz Choudry, GATT Watchdog You've got to wonder at the nerve of New Zealand trade officials. During the furtive Multilateral Agreement on Investment negotiations and the subsequent international waves of opposition they were quietly ... More >>
Police And Political Protest - Aziz Choudry
Friday, 22 December 2000, 3:08 pm | Aziz Choudry
It would be nice to believe that the New Zealand Police are politically neutral. Then perhaps we could dismiss their heavy-handed operations during Jiang Zemin's visit as isolated, albeit unfortunate instances of overkill which momentarily suspended ... More >>
Agric. Trade Liberalisation & 3rd World Farmers
Monday, 16 October 2000, 10:10 am | Aziz Choudry
Two very different meetings have focussed on trade liberalisation and agriculture this month, seemingly worlds apart. Last week in Banff, Canada, Jim Sutton attended the first Cairns Group Ministerial meeting since the Seattle World Trade Organisation ... More >>
Banking on Poverty - Aziz Choudry on S26
Tuesday, 26 September 2000, 9:16 am | Aziz Choudry
Today, Michael Cullen attends the annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Prague. It’s September 26 - thousands of people will take to Prague’s streets and in cities worldwide, including Wellington, in a ‘Global Day of Action’ ... More >>