18 August 2000

Contents:

1. Parliamentary Inquiry into the WTO-Summary of AFTINET Submission
2. Melbourne and Sydney events for the World Economic Forum
3. Fair trade and you - buying fairly traded products.
4. Sign-on letter: WTO – the turn around agenda.
   This letter from US Public Citizen was circulated in the April AFTINET Bulletin, has been signed by many organisations including some in Australia and is now to be launched on Sept 7. Please look and see if your organisation can sign.

Please note that submission summaries must be in to the Committee by Aug 25 but full submissions can be sent after that date. See the AFTINET Alert no. 6.

The AFTINET submission will address the general issues in the terms of reference based on the AFTINET principles as outlined below. The Working group suggests that those organisations who wish to do so can specifically endorse the AFTINET submission. The full submission will be circulated for endorsement in the second week of September.

We also urge as many organisations and individuals as possible to put in their own submissions which can address their particular areas of concern.

AFTINET submission outline for the Joint standing Committee Inquiry into Australia’s relationship with the WTO

The Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network is a network of thirty -five community organisations which supports the development of trading relationships with all countries and supports international regulation of trading relationships. However the collapse of the MAI negotiations and the failure to launch a new negotiating round at Seattle in our view show that changes are needed to the international trade negotiating framework. The view that changes are needed is not only held by community organisations in Australia and elsewhere, but is shared by many developing country governments and the European Union. The full submission will address the terms of reference as outlined below and present evidence to support each point.

Opportunities for community input into developing Australia’s negotiating position

WTO agreements have broadened in scope to affect many more areas of government policy.

It is therefore essential that government policy be open, publicly discussed and publicly accountable before agreements are signed.

Historically the negotiations have been secretive and Australia’s policy position has not been publicly accountable.

Formal bodies only have business representatives but no community representatives - the Trade Advisory Policy Council and WTO delegations.

Recently there have been more attempts at wider community consultation but little evidence that these have influenced policy.

The form of consultations in 1999 (submissions and meetings) did not give much confidence to community organisations. DFAT officials appeared not to listen, argued against any critical points put to them and generally saw the process as their chance to tell community groups what policy should be rather than vice versa.

Some DFAT briefings in 2000 were only accessible to industry groups and not community organisations because of entry fees and the times they were held.

We need accessible forms of information and community consultation, public debate on policy positions before agreements are signed and representation of community organisations on formal bodies.

Transparency and Accountability of WTO decision-making

The scope and content of agreements has widened under WTO but the WTO is neither transparent nor accountable compared with UN structures. It has closed meetings, no majority voting, no public debate, no formal NGO observers at debates, and the drafting process is dominated by the Quad countries (US, Canada, EU and Japan).

Developing countries are excluded from most drafting meetings (the Cairns group is an exception), and lack resources. They have made specific requests for structural changes.

Some WTO advocates see the WTO as an opportunity to "lock in" current and future governments to a wide range of domestic policies (Bergsten 1996). The WTO is seen precisely as a way of implementing global policies without troublesome national public debate or accountabilty.

This removal of regulation from the national to the international level without democratic accountability restricts domestic policy debate and policy choices and thus restricts democratic and accountable government.

A review of WTO structures is urgently needed to address these issues. Such a review should take place before any new negotiating round.

Effectiveness of WTO dispute settlement procedures and ease of access

Definition of effectiveness - the WTO disputes settling framework is too narrow and places trade and commercial values above other values in international law. The disputes process may be effective for business but can undermine regulation on health, environment and human rights.

The threat of potential complaints as well as actual complaints are now being used to influence domestic government policy, eg on GMO labelling.

Dispute hearings are closed to the public.

Information on decisions is difficult to access and the language is obscure.

The dispute settlement process should be reviewed in the context of the general review of WTO structures. It should take into account other international law. It should be open and its decisions should be more accessible.

Relationship between WTO agreements and UN international agreements.

The WTO is a less transparent and accountable body than the UN which is the source of most other international agreements.

WTO agreements are more enforceable than UN agreements through its disputes body.

Thus WTO agreements can undermine principles established in other international agreements, eg the precautionary principle in international environment law.

Mechanisms are needed which require trade agreements to comply with international agreements on the environment, human rights and labour rights.

Extent to which social cultural and environmental considerations influence WTO decisions

The WTO’s one-size-fits-all global rules do not take into account the specific histories, social, cultural and environmental development issues of particular countries.

Certain areas should be excluded from trade and commercial agreements, eg, the cultural and land rights of indigenous peoples, other national cultural activities, public health, social security and public education. Access to essential services like water and electricity should also be guaranteed .

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2a. Melbourne Events for the World Economic Forum Sept 7-12, 2000

Thursday Sept 7:

Seminar: Development Challenges in the Global Economy

9am-5pm, North Melbourne Town Hall, Cnr Queensberry and Errol Sts, North Melbourne. Further details in AFTINET Alert no. 6. Registration queries to reception@acfoa.asn.au

Friday Sept 8:

Labour rights forum – details from www.actu.asn.au

Saturday Sept 9:

Alternatives to the WEF- the Peoples’ Conference

VUT Conference Centre 300 Flinders St Melbourne, 9am – 5.30 pm
Ph 03 9662 9688 for registration.

Sunday Sept 10:

Other Voices, other Values Public Meeting

11.45 am, Regent Theatre 191 Collins Street followed by Jubilee 2000 Drop the Debt Festival.

Monday Sept 11:

Protest at Crown Casino - see www.s11.org

Tuesday Sept 12:

A Fair Share for Workers

Rally at Trades Hall, Lygon Street, Carlton South, 10.30am
march to the Turning Basin, Flinders Street (across the river from Crown Casino where WEF will be held)

2b. Sydney Public Meetings and Fundraisers.

The Sydney S11 Coalition, an alliance of NGO, Union, Student and political groups including AID/WATCH, the Mineral Policy Institute, CFMEU, AMWU, FSU, PSU, the NSW Greens and the Anti-Bases movement is raising money to assist people to go to Melbourne.

Seminar on Corporate Power, the World Economic forum and the Olympics:

Monday 21 Aug, 6pm, Level 5, Room 3, Wentworth Bldg

Public Meeting:

7pm, Tues 5th September. Tom Mann Theatre, Chalmers St Surry Hills, opposite Central Station. Speakers Doug Cameron and Pat O’Shane, entry by donation.

Fundraisers:

Saturday the 19th August 'Morally Bankrupt'

The Gaelic Club, Cnr Devonshire and Chalmers Sts Surry Hills
With Exploding Happiness, Caravan Park and Renew Tree.
$12/$8 7.30pm-2am.

Sunday the 27th August 'Frigid'

The Hopetoun, Cnr Bourke and Foveux Sts, Surry Hills. Featuring live DJs and MCing: Sub Bass Snarl, Sir Robbo, Ozi Battler and ALF (Elefant Trax), 5000 Fingers of Dr T, Cindii andDahlia.
$5, 4.30pm-10pm.

There are now several websites for S11 events in Melbourne:

www.s11.org
www.globaljustice2000
www.vthc.org.au

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By Patricia Rossi. This article is available to be published in other journals

Inequality is one of the biggest problems in the world. From an international perspective there are countries where the majority of the population lives in poverty and other countries where the majority of people can reach high standards of living. Many things that people in developed countries receive from the international trade system (such as coffee, tea, sugar, fruits, cacao, tobacco, minerals, etc), are produced by people in developing countries. These people receive little money for their work and suffer from exploitation, lack of basic sanitation, and lack of modern health and education services. The United Nations tells us that "…the combined wealth of the top 200 billionaires hit $1.135 billion in 1999….. Compare that with the combined incomes of $146 billion for the 582 million people in all the least developed countries".

But what is wrong with people in poor countries? Why can’t they escape from the poverty?

Nothing is wrong with these people. There are other factors that have created their current situation. To understand these factors we need to look back to the history of European colonisation. European colonists found extremely rich soils, plenty of gold and silver, spices, other new commodities and slaves in South America, Asia and Africa and they built an international trade system based on destined roles for the colonies. Africa would provide mostly slaves; the Americas and Asia goods, gold and silver; and the most powerful countries in Europe would develop the industries to process and transform the goods into manufactured products. The colonies were not allowed to have factories, so that they had to buy the products from Europe and pay with goods according to the prices fixed in Europe to satisfy their needs.

"Political independence" from Europe did not change the economic dependence of the colonies, instead it reinforced it. The new countries have been shaped since that moment by the requirements of the world market.

In the current global economy there are players much more powerful than many rich countries: the Transnational Companies (TNC’s). These corporations make a huge impact on developing economies. They are able to mobilise large amounts of money and international support, dominating local markets, fixing prices, exchanging favours with governments, and influencing creation of local laws.

Since colonisation of the new lands the world has been divided into producers of manufactured products and primary producers, rich and poor countries, First and Third World, and developed and undeveloped countries. It is not important where we live, whether in the lucky countries or the unfortunate ones, the fact is that there is something that we can do to change this unfair situation in the world.

Fair Trade

The World Development Tea–Coop Ltd is a non-government organisation that believes in equitable exchange between countries with fairer terms of trade as a way to help developing countries in their struggle against poverty. It also aims to encourage Australian consumers to become aware of the conditions under which goods are produced and give them the opportunity of an alternative source of supply from the large Western-owned companies that dominate the Australian market.

The Tea Coop participates in fair trade and puts these principles into practice. It imports (through the brand Trade Winds) pure Ceylon tea from Sri Lanka, organic coffee and tea from Papua New Guinea, and coffee from East Timor and Colombia. All the products are processed and packaged in the countries of origin and trade through small cooperatives that work directly with the Tea Coop establishing fair terms of trade and eliminating intermediaries. The Tea Coop has a network of voluntary distributors and community groups who sell Trade Winds tea and coffee to friends, neighbours and different aid organisations.

As part of the commitment that the Tea Coop has to addressing the unfair situation in developing countries, the money made from the sale of tea and coffee is returned to the communities where the products came from to fund educational projects and to promote sustainable development.

Buying fairly traded products is a way to help people from developing countries and it is also a way to say "no" to the increasing and uncontrolled power of the transnational companies.

World Development Tea Co-operative Ltd
8/8-24 Kippax Street
SURRY HILLS NSW 2010

Tel. (02) 9281-8421 Fax (02) 9212-2468

Web site: www1.tpg.com.au/users/phillery/tradewinds/index.htm

E-mail address: awdev@ozemail.com.au

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4. "WTO - Shrink or Sink!" The Turn Around Agenda

Sign on to this letter! Only organisations can sign.

If you wish to sign your organisation to this letter send an email to mstrand@citizen.org and in the subject line write "Shrink or Sink signatory".

It's time to turn trade around. In November 1999, the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Third Ministerial Meeting in Seattle collapsed in spectacular fashion, in the face of unprecedented protest from people and governments around the world. We believe it is essential to use this moment as an opportunity to change course and develop an alternative, humane, democratically accountable and sustainable system of commerce that benefits all. This process entails rolling back the power and authority of the WTO.

The GATT Uruguay Round Agreements and the establishment of the WTO were proclaimed as a means of enhancing the creation of global wealth and prosperity and promoting the well-being of all people in all member states. In reality, however, The WTO has contributed to the concentration of wealth in the hands of the rich few; increasing poverty for the majority of the world's peoples, especially in third world countries; and unsustainable patterns of production and consumption.

The WTO and GATT Uruguay Round Agreements have functioned principally to pry open markets for the benefit of transnational corporations at the expense of national and local economies; workers, farmers, indigenous peoples, women and other social groups; health and safety; the environment; and animal welfare. In addition, the WTO system, rules and procedures are undemocratic, un-transparent and non-accountable and have operated to marginalize the majority of the world's people.

All this has taken place in the context of increasing global instability, the collapse of national economies, growing inequity both between and within nations and increasing environmental and social degradation, as a result of the acceleration of the process of corporate globalization.

The governments which dominate the WTO, especially the United States, the European Union, Japan and Canada, and the transnational corporations which have benefitted from the WTO system have refused to recognize and address these problems. They are still intent on further liberalization, including through the expansion of the WTO, promoting free trade as a goal in itself. In reality, however, free trade is anything but 'free'.

The time has come to acknowledge the crises of the international trading system and its main administering institution, the WTO. We need to replace this old, unfair and oppressive trade system with a new, socially just and sustainable trading framework for the 21st Century.

We need to protect cultural, biological, economic and social diversity; introduce progressive policies to prioritise local economies and trade; secure internationally recognized economic, cultural, social and labor rights; and reclaim the sovereignty of peoples and national and sub-national democratic decision-making processes. In order to do this, we need new rules based on the principles of democratic control of resources, ecological sustainability, equity, cooperation and precaution.

In light of the above, we make the following demands of our governments:

No WTO Expansion

We reiterate our opposition to continued attempts to launch a new round or expand the WTO by bringing in new issues such as investment, competition, government procurement, biotechnology and accelerated tariff liberalization.

WTO Hands Off: Protect Basic Social Rights and Needs

It is inappropriate and unacceptable for social rights and basic needs to be constrained by WTO rules. Thus WTO Agreements must not apply to issues critical to human or planetary welfare, such as food and water, basic social services, health and safety, and animal protection. Inappropriate encroachment by trade rules in such areas has already resulted in campaigns on genetically modified organisms, old growth forests, domestically prohibited goods and predatory tobacco marketing.

Gut GATS: Protect Basic Social Services

In particular, areas such as health, education, energy and other basic human services must not be subject to international free trade rules. In the WTO General Agreement on Services (GATS), the principle of "progressive liberalization" and the implications of foreign investment in service sectors has already led to severe problems.

Take TRIPS Out: Restore National Patent Protection Systems

We demand the removal of the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPS) from the WTO. There is no basis for inclusion of intellectual property claims in a trade agreement. Additionally, the TRIPS agreement promotes monopoly by transnational corporations; prevents access to essential medicines and other goods; leads to private appropriation of knowledge and life forms; undermines biodiversity; and keeps poorer countries from increasing their levels of social and economic welfare and developing their technological capacity.

No Patents on Life

The patenting of life forms must be prohibited in all national and international regimes.

Food is a Basic Human Right

Measures taken to promote and protect food security and sovereignty, subsistence farming, humane farming practices and sustainable agriculture must be exempt from international free trade rules. There must be a prohibition on export subsidies and other forms of dumping of agricultural products, especially on third world countries. The trading system must not undermine the livelihood of peasants, small farmers, artesinal fishers and indigenous peoples.

No Investment Liberalization

The WTO Trade Related Investment Measures (TRIMS) Agreement must be eliminated. All countries and especially third world countries must have the right to use policy options (such as local content policy) to increase the capacity of their own productive sectors, especially small and medium enterprises. Obviously, the TRIMS review must not be used to extend the investment issue in WTO.

Fair Trade: Special and Differential Treatment

Special and differential rights for third world countries must be recognized, expanded, and operationalized in the world trading system. This is to take into account the weak position of third world countries in the international trading system. Without the enforcement of special and differential rights, there can be no possibility of third world countries benefitting from world trade.

Prioritize Agreements on Social Rights and the Environment

Actions taken to implement multilateral agreements dealing with the environment, health, development, human rights, safety, indigenous peoples' rights, food security, women's rights, workers' rights and animal welfare cannot be challenged at or undermined by the WTO.

Democratize Decision-Making

People must have the right to self-determination and the right to know and decide on international commercial commitments. Among other things, this requires that decision-making processes in negotiations and enforcement at international commercial bodies be democratic, transparent and inclusive. The WTO operates in a secretive, exclusionary manner that shuts out most third world country Members and the public. It is dominated by a few powerful governments acting on behalf of their corporate elites.

Dispute the System

The WTO dispute settlement system is unacceptable. It enforces an illegitimate system of unfair rules and operates with undemocratic procedures. It also usurps the rulemaking and legislative role of sovereign nations and local governments.

A socially just international trade system will also require change outside the WTO. Given the attacks by multinational corporations and governments on basic workers rights; the reversal of the gains of workers' struggles; the undermining of job security; and the race-to-the-bottom in wages, workers rights must be strengthened worldwide.

Also, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the regional development banks must write off 100% of the debts owed to them by poor countries. The use of structural adjustment conditionality to force trade liberalization in third world countries and elsewhere must be stopped. Governments must negotiate, through the UN system and with full democratic participation, a binding agreement to ensure that corporate conduct is socially and environmentally responsible and democratically accountable.

Conclusions and Consequences

We are committed to a sustainable, socially just and democratically accountable trade system. Thus, as a first step, we demand that our governments implement the changes listed in this document in order to roll back the power and authority of the WTO and turn trade around.

We commit ourselves to mobilize people within our countries to fight for these demands and to defy the unjust policies of the WTO. We will also support other people and countries who do so with international solidarity campaigns.

We pledge to carry the Spirit of Seattle around the world.

Signatories:

Africa:

AEFJN (Africa - Europe Faith and Justice Network)
Africa Trade Network
COASAD l EcoNews Africa
Jubilee 2000, Afrika
Medical Mission Sisters, Sector Africa l Third World Network - Africa Secretariat

Asia:

Asia Indigenous Women's Network (AIWN)

Australia:

ACT Greens
AID/WATCH
CART Group for Global Ethics
Catholics in Coalition for Justice and Peace
Community Aid Abroad
Community Information Association
Conservation Council of the South East and Canberra
ECOTERRA
Economic Reform Australia (ERA)
Environment Centre Of WA Inc.
Environment Liberation Front
Essendon Community Aid Abroad
Friends of the Earth
Gene-Ethics Network Northern Rivers
Humane Society International
Information for Action
The International Society for Human Rights Australia
Network of Women in Further Education
People’s Movement
Reworking Tomorrow
Richmond Valley LETS
STOPMAI
StopMAI Campaign Coalition, Western Australia
South Australian Genetic Food Information Network (SAGFIN)
Students Association of University of South Australia
wtowatch ACT
WTO Watch

Austria:

Center for Encounters and Active Non-Violence, Bad Ischl
ECOTERRA
GLOBAL 2000/Friends of the Earth Austria
Informationsgruppe Lateinamerika (IGLA)
PLAGE
Salzburg Forum against MAI and WTO
Bangladesh
Friends of the Earth
Institute of Integrated Rural Development
OILWATCH
UBINIG

Belgium:

Anti-Imperialist League
ATTAC-Brussels
Centre National de Coopération au Développement
Collectif Stratégies Alimentaires
Comité pour l'Annulation de la Dette du Tiers Monde (Committee for the Cancellation of the Third World Debt)
Fair Trade Centre
Jong Agalev (Flemish Young Greens)Magasins du monde-Oxfam
Medical Aid for the Third World
NCOS - National Centre for Development Cooperation
Oxfam Solidarity
Oxfam-Wereldwinkels

Bolivia:

Armonía

Brazil:

ECOTERRA

Bulgaria:

National Movement Ecoglasnost, FoE Bulgaria l

Cameroon:

STRATEGIC HUMANITARIAN SERVICES (SHUMAS)

Canada:

Canadian Action Party
Check Your Head: the Global Youth Education Network
Concordia Student Union
Council of Canadians
ECOTERRA
Friends of the Escarpment (FOE)
Gleaning for a Better World l INTER PARES
Labour Environmental Alliance Society
Maya Pedal
Native News Network of Canada (NNNC)
New Democratic Party of Canada Federal Caucus
PAMAI (People Against the MAI)
Polaris Institute
The Real Alternatives Information Network (RAIN)
Rainforest Raging Grannies
Reach for Unbleached! Foundation
Social Justice Committee, Church of the Holy Trinity
Tamil Resource Center
Women's International League for Peace & Freedom
Women's International League for Peace & Freedom BC Branch (WILPF-BC)

Czech Republic:

Hnuti DUHA/Friends of the Earth CZ

Chile:

Programa Chile Sustentable l Fundacion Sociedades Sustentables

Cyprus:

Friends of the Earth

Denmark:

Dekotrans l Enhedslisten/Red Green Alliance
International Boernesolidaritet l Internationalt Forum
Jord- og Betonarbejdernes fagforening -Kbh
Mellemamerijka Komitéen
Oekotrans
Rebel
Roed Ungdom
SOS WTO
Spidsroden
Sydafrika Kontakt
Tinku-Danmark

Ecuador:

Accion Ecologica

Estonia:

Eesti Roheline Liikumine / FoE Estonia

Ethiopia:

Institute for Sustainable Development

Europe:

A-SEED
Bayan International-Europe
Ecoropa Federation of Young European Greens
Friends of the Earth Europe
NEWS! The Network of European World Shops

Finland:

Alternativ till EU - Finland (Alternatives to the EU-Finland) l Association of Unemployed "Pohjalaistyöttömät"
Coalition for Environment and Development
The Communist Party of Finland
Democratic Education Alliance
Ecological Daily Life Association
Friends of the Giraff
EU-Critical Youth
Finnish Asiatic Society
Finnish NGO Campaign on WTO
Friends of the Earth Finland
Friends of the Earth Hämeenlinna
Finnish Association of World Shops
GMO-Campaign Verso
Informationcenter Alternative to the EU
National Cooperation Association of Unemployed (TVY)
Nature Alliance of West Finland
New Wind Association
PAND, Artists for Peace Socialist Association
Peacepipe Association
Sewingcircle Association
Women for Peace
Women’s Alternative to EU
Worldshop Giraff

France:

ATTAC
Association Transnationale
Association VISION
Chiche!
Confédération Paysanne
Crash Disques
Droits Devant!!
Ecoropa ECOTERRA
Fédération Artisans du Monde
Fondation France Libertés
Institut pour la Relocalisation de L'économie
L'Ocelle
Le cri
Mouvement National de Lutte pour l'Environnement (MNLE)
Observatoire de la Mondialisation

Germany:

Aktionszentrum 3.Welt
Angelas e.V. (Arbeiten zu Nachhaltigkeit, Geschlechter-, Entwicklungs-, Land- und Agrarsoziologie)
BLUE 21
e.V. (Berliner Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Umwelt und Entwicklung - Berlin Working Group on Environment and Development
Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland, BUND (Friends of the Earth Germany)
CM-International l ECOTERRA e.V.
Frauen fur den Frieden
Gen-ethisches Netzwerk (GeN)
Institut für Theorie und Praxis der Subsistenz (ITPS)
Institute of Interdisciplinary Study and Research (IFSF)
International Human Rights Association
Missionare und Missionarinnen auf Zeit Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) e.V.
Netzwerk gegen Konzernherrschaft und Neoliberale Politik (Network against Corporate Rule and Neoliberal Policy)
Pax Christi Basisgruppe Koblenz
Perspektive unabhängige Kommunikation (puk)
Weltladen-Dachverband e.V. (German World Shop Association)
Working Group Critical Veterinary Medicine

Ghana:

Friends of the Earth

Greece:

Association of Social & Ecological Intervention (Friends of the Earth Greece) MAGAZINE "ARDIN"

Guatemala:

Maya Pedal

Holland:

Attac Nederland
Both ENDS
Corporate Europe Observatory
Towards a Different Europe
Transnational Institute

India:

Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies
Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group
ENDEV Society for Environment and Development
TAMILNADU UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION(TUNA)
Women's Centre, Bombay
WOMEN'S WELFARE CENTER

Indonesia

INFID (International NGO Forum on Indonesia Development)
LATIN, Lembaga Alam Tropika Indonesia/The Indonesian Tropical Institute
The National Consortium on Forest and Nature in Indonesia (KONPHALINDO)
National Network Forum of Indonesia
Anti-Nukes Society l PAN Indonesia

International:

Friends of the Earth International
Genetic Resources Action International (GRAIN)
Global Sisterhood Network
HELIO International
World Rainforest Movement

Ireland:

Earthwatch, Friends of the Earth
Justice Office - Mill Hill Missionaries
Mercy International Justice Network

Italy:

AIFO
Associazione Ad Gentes
Associazione Botteghe del Mondo
Beati i costruttori di pace
Campagna Chiama L'Africa
Campagna Dire mai al MAI/Stop Millennium Round
Campagna Globalizza-azione dei popoli
Campagna per la Riforma della Banca
Mondiale
Centro Nuovo Modello di Sviluppo
Cocoricò l Comitato Scientifico Antivivisezionista
CTM Altromercato l Fondo Imperatrice Nuda contro la sperimentazione animale
La Leva di Archimede l Lelio Basso l International Foundation for the Rights and Liberation of People
Mani Tese
NIGRIZIA
Pax Christi
Stop Millennium Round Campaign
Rete di Lilliput (Lilliput network)
WWF-Italia

Japan:

APEC Monitor NGO Network(AM-net)
A SEED JAPAN (Action for Solidarity, Equality, Environment and Development) Consumers Union of Japan
Friends of the Earth
Get Back the Nature!
Kansai Citizen Union
HUTAN Group
International Solidarity of Saku Area Citizens (ISSAC)
Jambo International Center
Nagoya Freedom School l People’s Forum 2001
Rainforest Resources Center of Nagoya
Rural Poors
Solid Action on Globalization and Environment (SAGE)

Kenya:

ECOTERRA
Kenya Action Network
Kenya Human Rights Commissions

Korea:

Korean Women Workers Association United (KWWAU)

Lebanon:

Humanitarian Group for Social Development ( HGSD)

Luxembourg:

Action Solidarite Tiers Monde The Greens

Malaysia:

Third World Network

Malta:

ECO, The Malta Ecological Foundation
Moviment ghall-Ambjent, Friends of the Earth

Mexico:

La Limpieza de la Bahía de Banderas de Pto. Vallarta, A.C.
Red de Accion sobre Plaguicidas y Alternativas en Mexico (RAPAM)
Red Mexicana de Accion frente al Libre Comercio (RMALC)

Nepal:

Bikalpa: Community for Development Studies
Jajarkot Permaculture Programme
SEWA NEPAL

Netherlands:

Corporate Europe Observatory
Towards a Different Europe
Transnational Institute

New Zealand:

FAIR NZ
Friends of the Earth
Te Kawau Maro (tkm)

Nigeria:

Environmental Rights Action/Friends of The Earth

Norway:

AKP l GATT-WTO Campaign
Norges Naturvernforbund / Friends of the Earth
PRESS (Norwegian Save the Children's Youth Organisation)

Pakistan:

Creed Alliance
Development VISIONS
Punjab Lok Sujag
ROOTS for Equity

Peru:

Indigenous Peoples' Biodiversity Network (IPBN)
Kechua-Aymara Association for Sustainable Livelihoods (ANDES)

Phillippines:

Bayan-Phillippines (New Patriotic Alliance)
ECOTERRA South-East Asia
Ibon Foundation
Legal Rights and Natural Resources
Center-Kasama sa Kalikasan/Friends of the Earth Philippines
Peasant Movement of the Philippines (KMP)
PEASANT RIGHTS GROUP
Southeast Asia Regional Institute for Community Education (SEARICE)
TEBTEBBA Foundation, Inc. (Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education)

Portugal:

CIDAC - Centro de Informação e Documentação Amílcar Cabral

Romania:

MAMA TERRA / For Mother Earth-Romania Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space

Scotland:

Edinburgh Friends of the Earth

Slovakia:

Center for Environmental Public Advocacy/Friends of the Earth - Slovakia

Somalia:

ECOTERRA

South Africa:

eThekwini Ecoparty
Green Party of South Africa

Spain:

Aedenat Sevilla Ecologistas en Acción
ATTAC Catalonia
Ecologistas en Acción
Ecologistas en Acción de La Rioja
Ecologistas en
Acción Huesca
Ekologistak Martxan-Bizkaia
COLLA ECOLOGISTA L'ALBER
Tagoror Ecologista Alternativo

Sudan:

ECOTERRA

Sweden:

Forum for System Debate
Framtiden i Våra Händer
Miljöforbundet Jordens Vanner / Friends of the Earth Sweden
Swedish Young Greens (Grön Ungdom)

Switzerland:

Berne Declaration
Blueridge-Institute
CETIM (Europe Third World Center)
Ecumenical Parish Halden
European Coordination 'No patents on life!'
Medicus Mundi
Pro Natura - Friends of the Earth Switzerland
Swiss Coalition of Development Organizations

Tanzania:

ECOTERRA

Thailand:

Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (Forum-Asia)

Togo:

LES AMIS DE LA TERRE

Turkey:

Working Group Against MAI and Globalisation

UK:

Arts in Action
Camel Area Friends of the Earth
Chapter 7 - the planning office of The Land is Ours
Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom
Christian Council for Monetary Justice
Christian Ecology Link
Cirencester Friends of the Earth
Communities Against Toxics
Compassion in World Farming
Corporate Watch
Coventry Trade Union Council
Devon Local Agenda 21 Network
ECO (The Campaign for Political Ecology)
ECOTERRA
Environment Resource and Information Centre
Falmouth Friends of the Earth
FORUM for STABLE CURRENCIES
Friends of the Earth (England, Wales and North Ireland)
Future in Our Hands UK
GM-FREE
Halton Friends of the Earth Group
International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC)
Lambeth Friends of the Earth
The Land is Ours
Leeds Friends of the Earth
Medical Mission Sisters
Mid & North Herts Friends of the Earth
Nottingham Friends of the Earth
People & Planet
Plants for a Future
Positive News
SAVE OUR WORLD
The Small and Family Farms Alliance
Southampton Animal Concern
Stort Valley Friends of the Earth
Swindon Friends of the Earth
Tourism Concern
Watford Friends of the Earth
World Development Movement
World Development Movement, Hull
World Voices

Ukraine:

Ukrainian Environmental Association "Zelenyi Svit"/Friends of the Earth

Uruguay:

REDES-Friends of the Earth

U.S.A.:

50 Years Is Enough Network
Advocates of Sustainable Environmental Practices (ASEP)
Alliance for Democracy
Alliance for Democracy Maine
Alliance for Democracy St. Louis Chapter
Alliance for Global Justice
American Lands Alliance
Animal Welfare Institute
Appalachian Peace and Justice Network
Arizona Green Party
Asia Pacific Environmental Exchange (APEX)
Basel Action Network (BAN)
Bay Area Jubilee 2000 Coalition
The Biotechnology Task force of the Western Sustainable Agriculture Working Group
The Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Campaign for Labor Rights
Cascadia Forest Alliance
Center for Balanced Development
The Center for Economic Policy and Research
Center for Justice and Global Awareness
Cloud Forest Institute
Co-op America
Columbia River Bioregional Education Project
Communist Party USA
Concerned Citizens Coalition of Roane, Calhoun and Gilmer Counties, of West Virginia
Corvallis Action on Globalization
Council for Responsible Genetics
Cumberland Chapter - Save Our Cumberland Mountains
Cumberland Countians for Peace & Justice
The Daughters Sisters Project
E.A.R.T.H. (Ecologically Aware and Responsible Together at Hampshire)
ECO-Action
The ECO-Store
Economic Justice Now
Economic Justice Now - Africa Committee
ECOTERRA
Endangered Habitats League
The Edmonds Institute
Environmental Action Group
Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power
Essential Action
Finger Lakes Environmental Action (FLEA)
Friends of the Earth
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
Forest Guardians
Global Exchange
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
Global Response
Grassroots International
Gray Panthers of San Francisco
Greater Sacramento Chapter of the Alliance for Democracy
The Greens/Green Party USA
The Green Party of Tennessee
Groundwork for a Just World
Heron Food & Garden Co-op
Human Rights Action Service
Humane Society of the United States
Indiana Alliance for Democracy Institute
Justice Team, Sisters of Mercy
Americas Indigenous Environmental Network
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Institute for Cultural Ecology
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
International Campaign for Responsible Technology
International Forum on Globalization
International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC)
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
INTERCONNECT
International Alliance for People’s Movements
Iowa City Green Party
Ithaca Coalition for Global Justice
JustAct: Youth Action for Global Justice
The Label Labor Art Collaborative
Leavenworth Audubon Adopt-a-Forest
Made By Hand International Cooperative
Magic Mangrove Action Project
Maine Peace Action Committee at the University of Maine, Orono
The McDowell Mountain Monitors
Methow Forest Watch
Metro-Detroit Alliance for Democracy
Metro Justice of Rochester
Mexico Solidarity Network
Mississippi 2020 Network Inc.
Multicultural Association of Southern Oregon
The National Child Rights Alliance
National Lawyers Guild - International Law Project for Human, Economic & Environmental Defense (HEED)
Native Forest Council USA
Network for Global Economic Justice
New England Burma Roundtable
Nicaragua Center for Community Action
North American Coalition for Christianity and Ecology
Obed Watershed Association
Office of the Americas
Ohio Fair Trade Campaign
Organic Consumers Association
Pacific Environment and Resources Center (PERC)
Park County Environmental Council
Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane
Peace Action of Washington State
Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
People-Centered Development Forum
Pesticide Action Network North America
Post WTO Coalition of Seattle
Preamble Center
Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide
Protect All Children's Environment
Public Citizen
Quantum Leap 2000
The Quest for Peace/Quixote Center
Rainforest Action Network
Rainforest Relief
Rethinking Tourism Project
Rochester Food Not Bombs
Rocky Mountain Activist Network
Round Up for the Rainforest
Rural Coalition/Coalición Rural
Rural Vermont
Sea Turtle Restoration Project
The Seattle Burma Roundtable
Simple Revolution? Farm!
Sisters of the Holy Names
Sisters of the Holy Names CA Province Justice and Peace Committee
Seattle Women Act for Peace
SEDG - Shenandoah Ecosystems Defense Group
Sisters of the Holy Names, California Province Leadership Team
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE)
Society of Animal Protective Legislation
Solar Energy Awareness Demonstrations Seminars
Solidarity Committee of PACE Local 2-0031
Southwest Organizing School
STITCH (Support Team International for Textileras)
Student Environmental Action Coalition at the University of Maine, Orono
Tenant Congress
Tennessee Industrial Relations Network (TIRN)
Toward Freedom
TRANET
Unisun Communications
United Church of Christ - Network for Environmental & Economic Responsibility
United for a Fair Economy United Steelworkers of America, District #11
United Steelworkers of America, Los Angeles/Orange Counties Legislative Committee
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee, Olympia, WA University of Wisconsin - Madison Greens
Washington Biotechnology Action Council
Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua
Wisconsin Environmental Law Society
Witness for Peace Southwest
Women's Collective
Women, Food and Agriculture Network
Worldview, Ltd.
Young Communist League USA

Zambia:

Catholic Students