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Since its creation in 1995, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has worked to maintain and develop international trade. As one of the largest international economic organizations (alongside the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank ), it has strong influence and control over trading rules and agreements, and thus has the ability ...
The 1999 Seattle WTO protests, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Seattle, [1] were a series of anti-globalization protests surrounding the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, where members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) convened at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, Washington on November 30, 1999. The ...
The World Trade Organization's predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), was established after World War II in the wake of other new multilateral institutions dedicated to international economic cooperation – notably the Bretton Woods institutions known as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
The filmmaker and critic Hito Steyerl, in an essay on Showdown in Seattle and "the articulation of protest," describes the film's depiction of its own process of production as follows: Toward the end of the two and a half-hour film series, there is a segment, in which the viewer is taken on a tour through the production site of the film, the ...
Within the international system it is difficult to enforce international law, particularly with regard to human rights. So using trade sanctions as a coercive measure is an appealing prospect to ensure cooperation. However, there are many reasons why trade sanctions are an inappropriate mechanism for enforcing labour standards.
The Integration of Agriculture into mainstream World Trade Organisation policies; The Reduction of so-called export subsidies; Developing Country Issues; Ending the meeting, the Chairman said he was walking a tightrope. He was being pulled equally in both directions, he said. The danger was that if he moved one way or another he would fall off ...
The new World Trade Center’s crown jewel was to be the “Freedom Tower,” a name given to it by Pataki and which then-developer Donald Trump said made it “Terrorist target No. 1 with a bull ...
One argument often made by the opponents of the anti-globalization movement (especially by The Economist) is that one of the major causes of poverty amongst third-world farmers are the trade barriers put up by rich nations and poor nations alike. The WTO is an organization set up to work towards removing those trade barriers. Therefore, it is ...