WTO - GATS - TRADE:
OTHER ACTORS

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Social and Labour

• Labour standards in trade and investment - a brief introduction

• The case for including core labour standards in the WTO

• World Bank publication affirms positive impact of core labour standards

• Ensuring a Decent Global Workplace - Labor rights belong in trade agreements, says US expert

• Can Labor Standards Improve Under Globalization?

• Globalisation: the role and impact of international labour standards - an FES report

• Ensuring workers' rights as a strategy for economic growth - an EPI brief

• Trade and labour standards - a Carnegie study

• Time for development policies to focus on domestic demand, argues trade-union economist

• Globalisation and Income Inequality

• US Senator warns against misuse of trade agreements to privatise public services

• Socialist Group of European Parliament – Towards a WTO Round for development, democracy and sustainability - En - Fr - Es

• Party of European Socialists (PES) - Europe and a new global order

Government Groups

• Uninversal Postal Union (UPU)

• South Centre - An Intergovernmental Organisation of Developing Countries

NGOs

• International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)
• BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digest
• Solidar - What's New?

• War on Want

• Trade Observatory

• GATSwatch.org - Critical Info on GATS

• World Development Movement
• Polaris Institute - Polaris Project on GATS
• TWN Third World Network
• Oxfam - make trade fair

Business

• International Chamber of Commerce - Statements

• European Services Forum
• The Coalition of Service Industries (USA)
• International Financial Services (IFSL) - Group calls for further GATS liberalisation
• The Transatlantic Business Dialogue (TABD)