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Links Global Trade Watch is the Public Citizen division that fights for international trade and investment policies promoting government and corporate accountability, consumer health and safety, and environmental protection through research, lobbying, public education and the media. A think tank dedicated to investigating the impacts of economic globalization. IFG regularly hosts teach ins about the WTO, IMF and World Bank. The "Our World is Not For Sale" (OWINFS) network is a loose grouping of organizations, activists and social movements worldwide fighting against the current model of corporate globalization embodied in global trading systems. OWINFS is committed to a sustainable, socially just, democratic and accountable multilateral trading system. A global information center on the WTO, trade, and sustainable development, from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Food First/the Institute for Food and Development Policy is an education-for-action center dedicated to promoting food sovereignty and food security around the world. Focus on the Global South, a Bangkok-based program of policy research, analysis, advocacy and action, formed in 1995 with the aim of stopping trade and financial liberalization led by institutions like the WTO, the World Bank and the IMF, exposing and opposing the link between economic globalization and militarism and promoting a deglobalised world. The Third World Network is an independent non-profit international network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North- South issues. They have an extensive, up-to-the-minute website on the WTO. Friends of the Earth International is an international confederation of environmentalist movements with a large emphasis on fighting corporate globalization and the WTO A resource maintained by Corporate Euro Observatory specifically following the issue of investment in the WTO. The Council of Canadians is Canada's pre-eminent citizens' watchdog organization, comprised of over 100,000 members and more than 60 Chapters across the country. GATS, or the General Agreement on Trade in Services, is an agreement in the WTO related to privatizing services including health care, education, water, etc. GATSwatch is a joint project of Corporate Europe Observatory and Transnational Institute. The official website of the World Trade Organization. |