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The Fourth WTO Ministerial Conference, Doha (Qatar): November 9 -
14, 2001
Declarations and
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Friday 9 November
was a Day of Action for unions
all over the world. While Trade Ministers gathered at Doha, the capital of
Qatar, to boost corporate globalisation, workers around the world were saying that globalisation must be made to work for working people.
Workers have the most to gain from a fairer system of world trade and
investment. To be sustainable, globalisation must get a strong social
dimension and the closed World Trade Organisation must be more
democratic.
Workers and their unions said that labour
rights must be injected into WTO agreements. That the
world system must be reformed to benefit development and the world’s
poorest people. They called for the defence and expansion of
quality social services and the universal provision of affordable
medicines to fight diseases like AIDS.
"We will be having a demonstration and Day of
Action in Doha itself," said UNI General Secretary Philip Jennings.
"But what we want to do – with the other global unions – is to
organise other Days of Action in countries, in cities, in towns around
the world.
"We have 1,000 unions in 150 countries. I’d
like to see those 1,000 unions take their case to their national
governments to make November 9 a Day of Global Union Action – and we
can do it."
Go
to the Global Unions page on the Day of Action
UNI's WTO-GATS
Negotiations home page
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