Where to now? | Written by Arndt Hopfmann and Samuel Kasirye | March 2016
The outcomes of the 10th World Trade Organisation Ministerial meeting in Nairobi illuminates the growing challenges within world trade governance and more ominously; a shifting trade landscape. This policy paper makes observations on the looming changes in global trade structures.
Written by Aaron Wolf | SEATINI Uganda | February 2016
The brief predominantly scrutinizes implications of Mega – Regional Trading Agreements i.e. Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and its implications on Uganda’s development prospects including consequences for policy space. Read mo ... Civil society calls on WTO to uphold development mandate in the Doha Round | 18.11.2015
World Trade Organisation (WTO) member States should desist from eroding the Doha Development Round (DDR) mandate. This was the key message for CSOs gathered in Nairobi from 3rd - 4th, November 2015 in preparation for the WTO’s 10th Biannual Ministerial Conference scheduled to be held from 15-18th December 2015.
The Doha Development Round at the Crossroads ... but what are political and civil society expectations and demands?
The World Trade organization’s (WTO) Tenth Ministerial Conference (MC10) will be held from 15th-18th December 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, SEATINI and the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) will hold a pre- WTO MC10 Civil Society Conference on the 3rd and 4th November 2015 i ... Written by Manuel Pérez-Rocha | Published by the RLF office Brussels in cooperation with IATP, IPS, FOCUS and TNI | June 2015
The trade and investment partnership TTIP, which is currently being negotiated between the EU and the US, will affect the whole world. But the other world regions, like the BRICS or the Global South are being excluded from the trade negotiations and hardly get attention in the debates aroun ... Toward Democratic Control of Electricity Generation | Written by Kylie Benton-Connell, Lara Skinner, Sean Sweeney and published by RLS office New York | June 2015
In the last years, “energy democracy” has become a part of the international trade union discourse on energy and climate change. A growing number of unions and regional bodies, like the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas, are calling for democrati ... ... and their systemic implications | Presented by Nathan Irumba, Chief Executive Director, SEATINI | May 2015
A paper presented by Ambassador Nathan Irumba, Chief Executive Director, SEATINI during the conference on mega-trading blocs and the failure of African trade organised by The Commonwealth Secretariat and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), 26-27 May 2015. The paper gives an ov ... A charter for deregulation, an attack on jobs, an end to democracy written by John Hilary and published by RLF Brussels office | February 2015
TTIP has become a key political issue in many countries, with growing media interest feeding off public fear at the substantial dangers that the agreement will bring. That is why the RLF Brussels office updated the publication on TTIP by John Hilary. ...
Paper: Mega-Regional Trade Agreements: How could they affect Uganda?
Press release: Civil society calls on WTO to uphold development mandate
Conference: The Road to Nairobi
Paper: TTIP – Why the World Should Beware
Paper: Power to the people
Paper: The Rise of Mega-Trading Blocs
Study: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
Policy Paper: The WTO after Nairobi
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