Trade And Trade-related Issues LinksAlliance for Responsible Trade
The Alliance for Responsible Trade (ART) is a national network of labor,
family-farm, religious, women's, environmental, development and research
organizations that promotes equitable and sustainable trade and
development.
AlterNet
AlterNet.org is a project of the Independent Media Institute, a
nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and
supporting independent and alternative journalism.
This part of Alternet's online magazine provides a
mix of news, opinion and investigative journalism on subjects relating to globalization.
The AlterNet article database includes more than 7,000
stories from over 200 sources.
Australia Council
The Australia Council believes the appropriate treatment of cultural issues in trade agreements is of major practical and symbolic significance. It is vital not only to the future health of cultural diversity and creative expression in Australia, but also to public understanding of the responsiveness of trade and economic policy to the needs and interests of people throughout Australia.
Trade liberalisation and free trade are central tenets of the current international trading system and many countries' approach to trade. The rationale being that a more open, outward-looking economy can provide a higher standard of living than a highly protected, inward-looking economy.
As many people in the arts community are unfamiliar with the potential relationship between trade policy and the arts sector, Council encourages leaders in the arts community to take the time to understand the trade reform debate and to engage constructively and positively with the issues.
BRIDGES
Weekly, bi-weekly and quasi-monthly news, information, analysis, context-setting, resources and events on trade and sustainable development
Center for Economic and Policy Research
CEPR was established to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and
social issues that affect people’s lives. CEPR's professional research is oriented towards filling
important gaps in the understanding of particular economic and social
problems, or the impact of specific policies. It's public education
mission is to present the findings of professional
research, both by CEPR and others, in a manner that allows broad
segments of the public to know exactly what is at stake in major policy
debates.
Chemicals Policy Initiative
The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production’s Chemicals Policy Initiative aims to inform and stimulate discussions leading to implementation of long term integrated government and industry chemicals management policy at the local, state, regional, and federal levels in the United States as well as internationally. Such chemicals policies must be viewed in a holistic and integrated context — to protect worker, community, and consumer health, while stimulating development of safer and cleaner production systems, materials, and products.
Choike
Choike is a portal dedicated to improving the visibility of the work done by NGOs from the South. It serves as a platform where NGOs can disseminate their work and at the same time enrich it with information from diverse sources, organized in line with the perspective of Southern civil society.
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
CEO is an Amsterdam-based research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups.
CorpWatch
CorpWatch
CorpWatch counters corporate led globalization with organizing, information and networking. We work to hold corporations acountable on human rights, labor rights and environmental justice.
Dr. Willem Marsman CEO
I would like to draw your attention to my website which is used as a reference pointfor many institutions (see acknowledgments). Please browse through summary of articles and training.
Fair Trade Watch
Developed by the AFL-CIO, this site provides information on trade and the global economy from a worker's perspective.
Focus on Trade
Focus-on-Trade is a regular electronic bulletin providing updates and analysis of trends in regional and world trade and finance, with an emphasis on analysis of these trends from an integrative, interdisciplinary viewpoint that is sensitive not only to economic issues, but also to ecological, political, gender and social issues.
Friends of the Earth International
Friends of the Earth is the largest grassroots environmental federation in the world aiming to protect the environment and to create sustainable societies.
Global Issues in a Changing World
A new series from Zed Books of short, accessible think pieces deals with leading global issues of relevance to humanity.
Global Policy Forum
The Global Policy Forum was founded in 1993 to monitor global policy making at the United Nations. GPF has a large web site with dozens of publications on global policy issues, and thousands of pages of documents and data. GPF works in partnership with citizen organizations (NGOs) around the world and has actively sought to broaden citizen voices within the UN system. It works cooperatively with scholars, experts and research institutes in a number of countries, to produce high quality analysis and data.
Globalization, Environment and Communities
In 2002, the World Resources Institute (WRI) launched a 3 year project entitled “Global Environment and Development Processes: Maximizing Global, National and Local Synergies for the Benefit of Communities”. The long-term goal of this project is to ensure that global processes on environment and development serve as a catalyst for meeting the priority needs and interests of communities worldwide. In particular, global trends and processes related to international trade and multilateral environmental agreements and how they affect communities will be emphasized in this project.
WRI, in support of this project, is pleased to announce a new resource available on its website, entitled: Globalization, Environment, and Communities. This resource provides working papers and special bulletins on global environment and development processes.
Support for developing and making available this resource is made possible by the Ford Foundation as a part of their Initiative on Globalization, Environment, and Communities which has “the long term goal of changing the nature and functioning of key global institutions, such as the WTO and the institutions that manage the global environmental agreements, especially as they relate to the field of environment and development, so that they serve more equitably the interests of impoverished communities around the world.” This Initiative seeks to respond to the emerging set of challenges brought by globalization for the alleviation of poverty and injustice worldwide, especially as it affects communities.
India Resource Center
India Resource Center coordinates the International Campaign to Hold Coca-Cola Accountable for its crimes in India and Colombia
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
information, analysis, sources and links to empower stakeholders in trade policy to influence the international trade system such that it advnaces the goal of sustainable development
International Political Economy IPE
undergraduate course with news and research links
Just Trade - Presbyterian Church USA
Called upon by our General Assembly to oppose the FTAA in its current form, and push for trade agreements that value people and the environment, this denominational website provides information and action suggestions for Presbyterians and others in the U.S. engaged in social transformation.
Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN)
MSN is a Canadian-based labour rights advocacy group dedicated to promo9ting and defening the rights of workers in maquiladora factories and export processing zones.
NAFTA
This site maintained by the Canadian Department of Foreign Affaires and Interntational Trade includes the complete text of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
North Carolina Global Trade Site
Importing & Exporting Trade Portal for North Carolina in the United States. Free Membership, Global Marketing, Email alerts, catalogs, and much more.
Oxfam's Make Trade Fair site
A site on Oxfam International's campaign on global trade governance.
Rethinking Globalization
This comprehensive new book from Rethinking Schools -- more than 400 pages -- helps teachers raise critical issues with students in grades 4 - 12 about the increasing globalization of the world's economies and infrastructures, and the many different impacts this trend has on our planet and those who live here.
Social Criticism Review
An outstanding selection of 1,000 online readings on the crisis of modernity: progress, science for sale, megatechnology, third world debt, counterproductive economy, globalization, corporate rule, anti-democratic media, advertising consumerism, environmental destruction, genetic manipulation, sustainable development, human rights, ethics, responsibility, citizenship, community building, arms race, war on terrorism, and much more. A useful resource for a unified protest movement.
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excellent references for SCR: www.socialcritic.org/ref.htm
Third World Network
The Third World Network is an independent non-profit
international network of organizations and individuals involved
in issues relating to development, the Third World and North-
South issues.
Its objectives are to conduct research on economic, social
and environmental issues pertaining to the South; to publish
books and magazines; to organize and participate in seminars;
and to provide a platform representing broadly Southern
interests and perspectives at international fora such as the
UN conferences and processes.
Trade Aid Aotearoa/New Zealand
New Zealand's only alternative trading organisation has been campaigning on social, economic and environmental justice issues for 30 years. See what's happening Down Under in the country that is nuclear free, and proud of it.
Trade Justice Movement
The Trade Justice Movement is a group of organisations in the UK who are concerned with the negative impact of international trade rules on the poorest people in the world, on the environment, and on democracy. We call for fundamental change to the unjust rules and institutions governing international trade, so that trade is made to work for all.
World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its
heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world’s trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The goal
is to help producers of goods and services, exporters, and importers conduct their business.
WorldTradeLaw.net
The Online Source for World Trade Law
WorldTradeLaw.net's Dispute Settlement Commentary (DSC) is an annual subscription service providing detailed summaries and
analysis of all WTO Panel and Appellate Body Reports.
WTO WATCH
The Trade Observatory on WTO, Globalization, Trade and Sustainable Development - The premier web portal for trade and WTO news and information.
Yahoo News
This Yahoo site provides links to WTO and trade-related newspaper articles on a daily basis, as well as to magazines, editorial pages and relevant web sites
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