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Tuesday, Oct 18, 2005
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WTO NGOs bracing for winter of discontent Our Bureau
New Delhi , Oct. 17 EVEN as the Geneva process for the sixth Ministerial of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to be held in Hong Kong in December from 13 to 18, 2005 is under way with trade majors thrashing out negotiating points, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Asia are preparing for a long winter of discontent. NGOs of 12 Asian countries have launched the "People's Caravan for Justice and Sovereignty" in protest against the December Ministerial of the WTO in Hong Kong, China by observing the International Day for Eradication of Poverty today to stop WTO negotiations, unequal trade systems and widespread poverty across the developing world. People's organisations, mass fronts, groups and activists from Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam are launching the Caravan in the spirit of Seattle and Cancun against WTO negotiations. This journey of People's Caravan is an Asian people's fight for their rights and concerns focusing on resisting WTO, privatisation, transnational corporations, food sovereignty and poverty, democracy, women's rights, land, water, education, indigenous knowledge rights, natural resources, peasants, labourers and industrial workers. The caravan is a collective Asian odyssey of millions of peasants, workers, poor women and man and mass organisations. The Caravan is a vehicle of peoples' struggle and the journey comprises all available modes of transportations ranging from bullock carts to bi-cycles, elephants to camel and horses and trucks to buses. The alliance partners which include Action Aid International and two dozens NGOs in Asian countries, in a statement here said the Indian Caravan will be launched on October 27 in Delhi.
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