November 27, 2007 BBC News
	African nations in EU trade deal -- The five countries that make up the East African Community have agreed a plan that will gradually open their markets to the European Union (EU).
August 14, 2006 Common Dreams
	Why the WTO Doha Round Talks Have Collapsed – and a Path Forward -- The collapse of the WTO Doha Round talks on July 24, 2006, should come as no surprise. A decade into the WTO experiment, it is clear that the WTO model of corporate globalization has not delivered the promised benefits of increased economic prosperity, while economic, social, and environmental conditions have worsened in many rich and poor countries alike.... The collapse of the Doha Round WTO expansion talks offers an extraordinary opportunity for a fundamental re-think of the direction of the global economy.
July 29, 2006 Via Campesina
	The Doha Round is dead! Time for food sovereignty -- The failure of the WTO announced in Geneva by Pascal Lamy is a victory for La Via Campesina that has always opposed agriculture trade liberalisation. The Doha round is dead! Long life food sovereignty!
July 24, 2006 Citizens’ Trade Campaign
	Family Farmer Response to Doha Suspension: A Food Sovereignty Solution -- The collapse of the World Trade Organization talks in Geneva on Monday is welcome news for the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC), an organization representing family farmers in the U.S. and a member of Via Campesina, an international coalition of family farmers, peasants, and farm workers.
July 24, 2006 Guardian Unlimited
	WTO trade talks fail over farm subsidy rift -- An effort to salvage agreement on global trade talks collapsed today as the United States and the European Union accused each other of not doing enough on farm subsidies.
April 21, 2006 New York Times
	So Much for Those World Trade Talks -- A good United States trade representative needs two things. As the quarterback of America's efforts to break down trade barriers, he or she must command respect abroad. Robert Zoellick and Charlene Barshefsky each did well on that count when holding down the job.
April 03, 2006 The Oregonian
	Oregon seeks global trade pact exclusion -- Gov. Ted Kulongoski is asking the Bush administration to exclude Oregon from a proposed expansion of an international trade agreement on the service sector of the economy. He also asks to remove the state from parts of the agreement that cover health care, land use and zoning, and gambling.
March 15, 2006 Inter Press Service
	Poorest Nations Hit Hardest by WTO Agenda, Study Finds -- WASHINGTON, Mar 15 (IPS) - Developing nations are likely to end up being net losers under the current global trade agenda because they do not have the agricultural or industrial capability to compete with the United States, Japan, Europe or even China, the expected winners, a new study says.
January 14, 2006 Global Exchange
	The Meaning of Hong Kong WTO -- This means that developing countries were pressured to trade the privatization of their services and industrial future for a 2013 target date to eliminate export subsidies that should have been abolished long ago, and a promise of future development aid, most of which is actually designed to “aid” countries in restructuring their domestic economies to accommodate the privatization of their services and the selling off of their industrial futures.
December 19, 2005 The New York Times
	Trade Officials Agree to End Subsidies for Agricultural Exports -- Trade ministers representing most of the world's governments reached a deal here on Sunday night that sets a deadline for wiping out subsidies of agricultural exports by 2013...
December 19, 2005 Reuters
	Aid, Labor Groups Say WTO Deal Betrays Poor -- Development aid, labor union and human rights groups on Monday blasted as "betrayal" and abuse of the poor a World Trade Organization (WTO) deal in Hong Kong to keep troubled open market talks afloat.
December 17, 2005 The Standard: China's Business Newspaper
	Talks go on all night to avert failure -- As another day at the World Trade Organization talks finished with little apparent progress or signs that countries have narrowed their differences over fundamental issues, negotiators have turned their minds to further high-level meetings after the conference in Hong Kong comes to a close Sunday.
December 16, 2005 Seattle Times
	Anti-WTO activists take fight from street to halls of power -- Deborah James, director of the San Francisco-based Global Exchange, and Christine Martin of Tacoma are among the anti-WTO activists attending the trade organization's talks in Hong Kong this week.
December 16, 2005 US civil society
	U.S. Organizations Support Demand for Withdrawal of "Annex C" on Services -- As U.S.-based nongovernmental organizations, we support developing countries’ call for the withdrawal of “Annex C” on services of the Draft Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration so as to end the extreme and unfair pressure the United States is placing on developing countries in the services negotiations.
December 16, 2005 Global Civil Society Organizations
	CIVIL SOCIETY CALLS ON RICH COUNTRIES TO STOP IMPOSING EXTREME DEMANDS AT THE WTO SIXTH MINISTERIAL -- We the undersigned civil society organizations are concerned that the positions taken by major developed countries at the Hong Kong Ministerial conference are undermining development interests. We are outraged by how the developed countries, particularly the United States and the European Union, are trying to use the Ministerial to aggressively push forward their agenda to open the markets in developing countries for the interests of their corporations.
December 15, 2005 New York Times
	Vows of New Aid to the Poor Leave the Poor Unimpressed -- The United States, the European Union and Japan have taken turns this week at the World Trade Organization ministerial conference promoting plans to provide billions in foreign aid and eliminate trade barriers on exports from the world's poorest countries. But ministers from those countries are not sure they like what they see. In fact, some of them say that the offers are so littered with obscure exemptions, murky calculations and special conditions that they will not help much, and may even hurt.
December 15, 2005 AlterNet
	On Tap at the WTO: Private Water -- Hong Kong -- Activists gathered here say that no issue highlights the tension between the human values they advocate and the economic logic of the legion of corporate globalizers that have descended on this city more clearly than water.
December 14, 2005 The Hill
	Let developing countries grow the same way that we did -- The deal on the table will do little to help the world’s poor. According to the World Bank, the Hong Kong deal may only lift 0.2 percent of the close to 3 billion people around the world who live below the $2-per-day poverty line.
December 13, 2005 Global Exchange: Dollars & Sense
	Will the WTO Strike Out in Hong Kong? -- This December, delegates from 148 countries will meet to shape the future of the world’s nearly 6 billion people. From December 13 to 18, the World Trade Organization will hold its sixth major meeting, known as a ministerial, in Hong Kong, China, to negotiate on such crucial matters as the fate of public services, the global food supply, and jobs and development.
December 12, 2005 West Marin Alliance
	Bing Gong at the Hong Kong WTO (Part 2) -- I am here in China as a member of a Reality Tour sponsored by Global Exchange. We will be spending a few days in Shanghai and Guangzhou before going on to Hong Kong to protest at the World Trade Organization Ministerial.
December 12, 2005 Bloomberg
	Thousands of Protesters March on Hong Kong WTO Meeting Venue -- More than 4,000 protesters marched on Hong Kong's Convention Centre, some clashing with riot police, as the World Trade Organization meeting opened in the Chinese city. South Korean peasant activists, who have vowed to halt the biannual summit, joined with activists from India to Indonesia for the march, passing shuttered shops amid heavy security.
December 12, 2005 LOS ANGELES TIMES
	Wal-Mart Hopes WTO Will Help It Open a Door -- Union leaders, politicians and anti-globalization activists have used the courts and zoning laws to keep big-box stores like Wal-Mart out of their neighborhoods. Now the Bentonville, Ark.-based retail giant and other major chains are hoping to counterattack with a powerful new weapon: the World Trade Organization.
December 12, 2005 West Marin Alliance
	Bing Gong at the Hong Kong WTO -- I am here in China as a member of a Reality Tour sponsored by Global Exchange. We will be spending a few days in Shanghai and Guangzhou before going on to Hong Kong to protest at the World Trade Organization Ministerial.
December 10, 2005 Global Exchange, AlterNet
	Corporate Globalization in Crisis -- From December 13 to 18, the World Trade Organization will hold its sixth ministerial meeting in Hong Kong, China, to negotiate the fate of public services, the global food supply, and jobs and development. Representatives from 148 countries will meet to shape the future of the global economy.
December 09, 2005 Tom Paine
	Fair Trade For None -- Whatever face-saving measures are taken, the meeting in Hong Kong in mid-December to wrap up the current development round of world trade talks will almost surely fail the only test that matters: whether such an agreement promotes the poorest countries’ development.
December 08, 2005 Associated Press
	Report: Free Trade Threatens Small Farmers -- Lifting trade barriers is threatening the livelihoods of small-scale farmers and fisherman and contributing to desertification in Africa, the environmental group Friends of the Earth said in a report released Thursday. The report, "The Tyranny of Free Trade," released just days before the start of the Dec. 13-18 World Trade Organization summit in Hong Kong, said free trade policies tend to benefit large, export-driven producers, drive down prices and hurt smaller producers.
December 08, 2005 Inter Press Service
	WTO-SPECIAL: New Talks, Same (Empty) Promises? -- Groups advocating fair global trade say next week's World Trade Organisation talks in Hong Kong will not help lift up poor people in developing nations, as has been promised by officials in industrialised nations and their allies at international financial institutions.
December 01, 2005 Global Exchange
	Crisis in WTO Negotiations: It’s the Model, Not France -- Global Exchange will join thousands of other members of civil society representing farmers, workers, environmentalists, women, people of faith, immigrants, human rights advocates, and more, from Hong Kong, Bolivia, South Korea, Canada, South Africa, Indonesia, Europe, the Philippines, the US, and other countries, in Hong Kong this December, to protest the undemocratic WTO and its destructive impact on communities, democracy, development, and the environment.
November 09, 2005 The Wall Street Journal
	Trade Negotiations Fail to Advance -- Geneva – Hopes for a new global pact to lower trade barriers and open markets ran aground a month short of a pivotal meeting in Hong Kong, as negotiators acknowledged that after four years of talks they weren't ready to agree on even a basic agenda.
October 26, 2005 Global Exchange; Common Dreams
	China: Time for Grassroots Diplomacy, Not WTO Expansion -- Now is the time to travel to China to understand this emerging global superpower, challenge corporate globalization in the WTO, and build a global economic policy based on our shared values of fairness, human rights, and economic opportunity for all.