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International civil society rejects the WTO Doha process and outcomes. (News in Brief).


More than 100 NGOs and social movements This is a partial list of social movements.
  • Abahlali baseMjondolo - South African shack dwellers' movement
  • Animal rights movement
  • Anti-consumerism
  • Anti-war movement
  • Anti-globalization movement
  • Brights movement
  • Civil rights movement
, participating in a post-Doha meeting in December, 2001, condemned the WTO's Doha Ministerial Conference. They rejected the legitimacy of the Doha Ministerial Declaration saying it was a result of an outrageous process of manipulation.

The NGOs said that a vast number of developing countries had opposed negotiations on new issues and industrial tariffs as well as the establishment of a Trade Negotiations Committee. This opposition, they said, was clear before and at Doha. And yet, their views were consistently brushed. In the end the countries were pressurised to accept a Declaration, which did not reflect their positions.

The NGOs have condemned the non-transparent, discriminatory and arbitrary methods and processes presided over by the WTO See World Trade Organization.  Director-General and the Secretariat and directed by the major developed countries. Such behaviour and processes, they said, are particularly disgraceful for an international organisation Noun 1. international organisation - an international alliance involving many different countries
global organization, international organization, world organisation, world organization
 that boasts that its core principles are transparency, nondiscrimination and the rule of law.

The NGOs have committed themselves to fight against the disastrous aspects of the postDoha work programme of the WTO and against the undemocratic nature of the WTO system.

La Societe Civile Internationate rejette le processus et les resultats de Ia reunion de Doha organisee par l'Organisation Mondiale du Commerce

Plus do 100 ONG ONG Organisation Non Gouvernementale
ONG Organización No Gubernamental
ONG Organização Não-Governamental (Brazil)
ONG Organizzazione Non Governativa (Italian) 
 et mouvements sociaux, participant une reunion post Doha en decembre 2001, ont condamne la Conference Ministerielle de Doha organisee par I'OMC. Elles ont rejete Ia legitimite do Ia declaration do Doha, declarant declarant n. the person making a statement, usually written and signed by that person, under "penalty of perjury" pursuant to the laws of the state in which the statement, called a declaration, is made.  qu'elle etait le resultat d'un processus do manipulation outrance.

Les ONG ant declare qu'un vaste nombre do pays en developpement s'est oppose aux negociations sun los problemes emergeant et los tarifs industniels ainsi qu'a l'etablissement d'un Comite do Negociations Commerciales. Cette opposition, ont-ils declare, etait claire avant et durant la reunion La Reunion may refer to:
  • La Reunion (Dallas), a communal settlement near present-day Dallas, Texas
  • Réunion, an island in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar
 do Doha. Et cependant, buns opinions ont ete systematiquement ecartees. A la fin, los pays etaient presses daccopter uno Declaration qui no refletait pas buns positions.

Les ONG ont condamne les methodes et moyens sans transparence, arbitraires et discriminatoires sun lesquels lo Directeur General do I'OMC et son Secretariat ont preside, et qui ont ete diriges par les pays developpes pnincipaux. Ce genre de comportement et do pnocessus, ont-ils declare, sont particulierement honteux pour une organisation intennationale qui so vante do la transparence, du manque man·qué  
adj.
Unfulfilled or frustrated in the realization of one's ambitions or capabilities: an artist manqué; a writer manqué.
 do discrimination ot du regne do la loi de ses principes fondamentaux.

Les ONG so sont engages a combattro les aspects desastreux du programme do travail TRAVAIL. The act of child-bearing.
     2. A woman is said to be in her travail from the time the pains of child-bearing commence until her delivery. 5 Pick. 63; 6 Greenl. R. 460.
     3.
 suivant la conference de Doha do I'OMC et contre le caractere non democratique du systeme de I'OMC.
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