Gats
General Agreement on Trade in Services
(PDF
File)
A
general backgrounder (PDF File)
Action
Alert: Stop the GATS
Arena Action Alert
Arena call to resist the GATS
Action
Alert
GATS
& The Environment
Will
The Convention Really Address The Threats Posed By Free Trade Agreements?
Prof. Jane Kelsey
Report
on the "Etats generaux" - Estates General - of local governments against the
GATS
Susan George, TNI
Announcement:
New GATS Study (postal & telecoms)
New study from CCPA on
GATS "pro-competitive regulation" and public services,
by Jim Grieshaber-Otto and Scott
Sinclair, CCPA. (Includes links to full study document)
Many
Good Reasons for Women to be Against GATS
Christa Wichterich, WIDE
Annette Groth
Philippines gov't stand on GATS still undecided
Villy G. Cabuag and Jeremaiah M. Opiniano, OFW Journalism Consortium
India for cross-border trade under GATS
PTI
Taking the High Ground
Bill Rosenberg, Arena
Prue Hyman, Arena
NZ
Govt's Rush to GATS Deadline Unnecessary
Arena Media Release, April 3
Half-Step Forward, Huge Leap Back
Arena Media release
Clark Says
Trade Talks Will Not Hit Public Services
Tracy
Watkins
Transcript of Radio NZ's Mana News Programme
Day of Action Against Globalization:
March 13.
Arena Media Release
Ministers Selling Country Short
- Arena
Media Release
NZ Government Moves to Calm GATS Fears
Brian Fallow, NZ Herald
What the NZ
Government’s “10 Principles on GATS Negotiations” Really Mean
Prof Jane Kelsey Analyses
the Govt’s GATS paper for Arena
Paper for the
Conference on Cultural Diversity, Paris, 2-4 February 2003
Professor Jane
Kelsey, University of Auckland, New Zealand
EU Asks US to Revise
Rules for Service Sector
Neil King Jr, Wall St Journal
EU’s Secret Plans
Hold Poor Countries to Ransom
Larry Elliot & Charlotte Denny, Guardian
Open Letter to NZ PM
Over GATS
Water Pressure Group (Akld)
Adam Bennet, The Press (Christchurch, NZ)
Secretive GATS
Negotiations Insult Aust Public
Aust Labor Party Media Release
Developing Countries
Cautioned Against Services Liberalization
Goh Chien Yen, Third World Network
EU Likely to Bar
Talks on 4 Sectors at Doha
Tobias Buck et al, Financial Times
NZ Government’s GATS
Position Confusing
Arena Media Release
Education Concerns
Heightened by GATS Demands
Assoc of University Staff Media Release
GATS Demands Would
Destroy NZ – Greens
Media Release from NZ’s Green Party
Brixen-Bressanone
Declaration on Cultural Diversity & GATS
Text of European Officials' GATS declaration (PDF
file)
Resolutions Passed by Christchurch City Council
(CCC)
Ministry Response to CCC Concerns
CCC Response to Ministry Response
Arena Applauds Growing
Resistance to GATS
Arena Media
Release
Chch City Council
Media Release on GATS
Council Urges Firm
Stand on GATS (Chch, NZ)
They Talk of Charity,
But Business is their Best Friend
GATS: Water is a Tradeable
Commodity
US GATS Demands (pdf
file)
Port Philip City Council Motion
(Aust)
Local Body Opposes GATS (Victoria,
Aust)
Essential Services Under Threat
Eve Lamb,
Standard (Victoria, Australia)
Canada’s Health Care System
‘Not Protected’
Melbourne Passes Motion
Opposing GATS
Motion to UK TUC Opposing GATS
Australian
responses to the leaked GATS papers
New Straits
Times, Malaysia
MFAT, CTU “Consultation” on Gats
Arena Media
Release
Trade Minister’s
Response Misleading
GATT Watchdog
Media Release 22 April 2002
The actual
document referred to in the media releases above
(PDF File – may
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