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WTO to Reintegrate as organisation based on human rights?

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Monday May 27, 2002 16:49author by Niall - not importantauthor email Odwood at smileyface dot comauthor address Dublinauthor phone n/a Report this post to the editors

The WTO has announced that it is to disband and replace itself with an organisation the charter of which will be based on the universal declaration of human rights.

Not much info, but what there is appears on http://www.gatt.org (the modern lefty's favourite website)

My reading is that in response to public outcry and protests from poorer nations the WTO is to start to consider human rights issues in it's determinations and rules from now on, with a new structure to be in place by Sept 30th.

Did anyone notice this?

Does anyone care?

What does anyone think this means?

Note: In the spirit of the free press I choose to exercise my freedom to ignore any replies to this.


Niall

Related Link: http://www.gatt.org
author by Poloniouspublication date Mon May 27, 2002 17:10author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Human rights are incompatible with free market economics.

author by Ali la Pointepublication date Mon May 27, 2002 18:49author address author phone Report this post to the editors

A face lift for the WTO.
Decapitation is what it needs.

author by Reallypublication date Mon May 27, 2002 20:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

As far as I know that address is a piss take web site. Take it with as much salt as you can mustard!

author by Terrypublication date Tue May 28, 2002 17:39author address author phone Report this post to the editors

If this is true, then it is likely the name-change and
apparent change of operating principles is likely to be just
a whitewash. The chances of anything of substance changing, I
reckon is close to nil, although they would likely spend much
effort announcing their new way of doing things.

You could probably safely put it in the same category as the
way the 'Windscale' nuclear processing facility became
Sellafield.

The calculation by the WTO would be that the changes are
designed to take the heat out of the globalisation protests
and thus allow them to continue more or less, business as usual,
while allowing the propanganda machine to say how responsive that
they are to critism and so give the appearence of being quasi-democratic
although nothing could be further from the truth.

It's not reforms we need, but wholescale structural changes of society.

author by Firewomanpublication date Wed Jun 12, 2002 02:56author address author phone Report this post to the editors

That website www.gatt.org is a phoney website set up by the "Yes Men" in order to get invitations to speak at universities etc. Apparantly it works!There is an article at the main indymedia about them with links(I'm not sure if the above one is right).

Related Link: http://www.yesmen.org
 
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