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Jane Kelsey - Images From Cancun (1)
Thursday, 18 September 2003, 1:47 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
Images from Professor Jane Kelsey of Cancun. More >>
Jane Kelsey - Images From Cancun (2)
Thursday, 18 September 2003, 1:47 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
Images from Professor Jane Kelsey of Cancun. More >>
Reflections On Cancun: Where To From Here?
Thursday, 18 September 2003, 10:33 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
This week, cocooned in the luxury resort of Cancun, Mexico for the fifth ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the Caribbean, African and other ‘least developed’ countries told the European Union, United States and Japan that ‘no means ... More >>
WTO Meeting Collapses Over Singapore Issues
Monday, 15 September 2003, 8:38 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Bedlam broke out in Cancun at around 2.10 pm after the Kenyan delegate emerged from deadokced talks on the Singapore issues of investment, comeptition, government procurement and trade facilitation and announced that the ministerial meeting had collapsed. ... More >>
Bulletin #8 WTO Seems Intent On Self-Destriction
Monday, 15 September 2003, 8:27 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
It’s hard to imagine a more blatant provocation than the draft ministerial text produced by the Chair of the ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Cancun, Mexico today. The organisation is already reeling under allegations of bullying and ... More >>
Bulletin #7 Poorer Countries Opposed To MAI
Monday, 15 September 2003, 7:51 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Bulletin #7 Poorer Countries Opposed To A Wto Investment Agreement Ask: "What Part Of No Don't You Understand?" More >>
Bulletin #6 Vigil For Korean Farmer Lee Kyong Hae
Monday, 15 September 2003, 7:48 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
At around 1 am on 11 September, 150 social movement activists gathered at the place where Korean farmer Lee Kyong Hae had, just hours before, made the ultimate political statement against the World Trade Organisation and the destruction of farmers’ livelihoods ... More >>
Jane Kelsey: The Human Tragedy Of The WTO
Friday, 12 September 2003, 11:02 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
The human tragedy of the World Trade Organisation’s approach to food and agriculture were brought home today with the apparent suicide of 56-year old Korean farmer Lee Kyong Hae during a mass protest of indigenous peoples and peasant farmers in the ... More >>
Jane Kelsey: Round One To The Anti-WTO Activists
Thursday, 11 September 2003, 1:38 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
Today's opening of the fifth World Trade Organisation ministerial meeting in Cancun was upstaged by about 30 anti-WTO activists just one minute into the opening speech by General Secretary Supachai Panitchpakdi. More >>
WTO Should Take A Look In Cancun’s Back Yard
Wednesday, 10 September 2003, 5:11 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
Puerto Juarez is the oldest settlement in Cancun. Past the local fishing boats moored on the stunning white beach, you can see the profile of the Hotel Zone where the WTO ministerial meeting is about to begin. The contrast is breathtaking. More >>
Jane Kelsey: Erecting Defences Around The WTO
Wednesday, 10 September 2003, 11:09 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
The symbolism of a World Trade Organisation under siege intensified as the security cordon around the venue for the WTO’s fifth ministerial meeting began tightening today. More >>
Jane Kelsey: Peasants Farmers Mobilise In Cancun
Tuesday, 9 September 2003, 4:58 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
More than a thousand campesina crammed into a steaming hot gymnasium today for the first day of the indigenous and farmers forum. More >>
Dialogue: Trade Treaty Dilutes Our Sovereignty
Wednesday, 20 September 2000, 11:20 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Imagine the Government has announced a law that would prohibit any future government from ever reintroducing tariffs on anything, while it concedes that more factories will close and workers, mainly Maori and Pacific Island women, will lose their jobs ... More >>
Select Com. Process For Trade Agreement A 'Sham'
Thursday, 14 September 2000, 11:32 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Referral of the Singapore free trade agreement to the Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade select committee is a sham, according to Professor Jane Kelsey of Auckland University. More >>
A Trojan Horse - Free Trade With Singapore
Thursday, 27 April 2000, 1:12 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
As Prime Minister Helen Clark arrives in Singapore, the proposed free trade agreement she has gone there to discuss is analysed in a Q&A format by Professor Jane Kelsey. More >>
