I. WHAT HAPPENED IN HONG KONG?
The 6th WTO Ministerial Conference, held in Hong Kong 13-18 December 2005, ended with an agreed Ministerial Declaration. WTO Director-General, Pascal Lamy, and a number of WTO members celebrated the moment as an important step towards the completion of the Doha Round of trade negotiations. Expectations had steadily been ratcheted down before the conference and there were few surprises in the final outcome.
AFA . AsiaDHRRA. APHD in Hongkong, December 11-18, 2005 (A full documentation of our activities will be provided later. Below is a summary of our organizations’ involvement in the civil society’s parallel activities to WTO MC6) Sunday, December 11 Lany and Esther arrived in Hongkong late morning as advanced party. After check in at Caritas […]
Today we are launching a solidarity hunger strike action to express our support for the 12 hunger strikers and to demand the immediate release of all of the 14 WTO political prisoners. We are deeply concerned that our 14 friends from Korea, Japan, Taiwan and mainland China, who were arrested for protesting against the WTO […]
Dear 12 anti-WTO protestors, On behalf of a farmers organization in Thailand, SorKorPor would like to share our feeling to the hunger strike for Solidarity and Justice. The hunger strike in this protesting, it is shown the emotion that dare for fighting to win and do not give up to any hindrance and difficulty. SorKorPor […]
The following is the Declaration adopted during the INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON WTO, FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND ALTERNATIVES TO GLOBALIZATION organized by Asia Pacific Network for Food Sovereignty (APNFS), Asian Farmers Network for Sustainable Development (AFA), Asia Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia (AsiaDHRRA) and International South Group Network (ISGN) held at Boys […]
Mr. Donald Tsang Chief Executive of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China Dear Mr. Donald Tsang The 6th Ministerial Meeting of WTO during December 12 – 18, 2005 at Hong Kong is very important in the history because it is the settle way that concerns with the living of peoples around the world, especially to the […]
Beginning The Hunger Strike for Solidarity and Justice—Our Struggle Against the WTO Is Not Over We came to Hong Kong to protest against the 6th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization. We are peasants. We are living with land and nature. We are workers. We are facing hazardous conditions at the workplace full of […]
Mr. Donald Tsang Chief Executive Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong People’s Republic of China Dear Mr Tsang , Happy New Year! We, leaders and members of the Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia ( AsiaDHRRA), a network of twelve non-government organizations in eleven countries in Asia, and an accredited […]
