Readings

You will find it useful to do some preliminary reading on the topics to be covered at the seminar. Materials will be posted on this page on a regular basis up to the seminar date.

Selected TWN publications are now available for purchase at cost price and will be available for sale at the conference for background reading, including hard copies of some of the suggested readings below.

Please see Celine at Room 1.21 (ext 24492) or email:
Chai-Ling.Tan@warwick.ac.uk

Readings on Globalization

• Globalization and the South: Some Critical Issues
  By Martin Khor

Readings on Trade and the Multilateral Trading System

• The WTO, the Post-Doha Agenda and the Future of the Trade System
  By Martin Khor
• The New Work Programme of the WTO
  By Bhagirath Lal Das
• Some Suggestions for Modalities in the Agriculture Negotiations
  By Bhagirath Lal Das

Readings on Biodiversity and Protection of Indigenous Knowledge

• Biotechnology and Indigenous Peoples
  By Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
• Indigenous Peoples and Intellectual Property Rights:
  TRIPS and Its Impact on Indigenous Peoples
  By Victoria Tauli-Corpuz

Readings on Intellectual Property Rights, TRIPS and Public Health

• Report on the WTO Discussion on TRIPS and Public Health
  By Cecilia Oh
• Rethinking TRIPS in the WTO: NGOs Demand Review of TRIPS
  at the Doha Ministerial Conference
  NGO Statemement

Readings on the Global Financial Architecture

• A Call to Action: A Citizens Agenda for the Reform of the Global
  Economic System
  Statement by coalition of NGO, academics, labour movements, faith-
  based groups and parliamentarians (1999)

Readings on Privatisation and Essential Services

• An Unholy Trinity: What a Corporate Alliance in the World Bank,
  IMF and WTO Means to Essential Services
  By Celine Tan

Readings on Financial Crises

• Contagion: The Argentinian Crisis Spreads
  Reports from Third World Resurgence

Readings on the World Summit on Sustainable Development
(Rio + 10), Johannesburg 2002

• Globalization and Sustainable Development: Challenges
  for Johannesburg
  By Martin Khor
• Some Proposals for Sustainable Development
  By Martin Khor
  
• Efforts for WTO Supremacy Over All Future Accords Fails
  By Martin Khor, 6 September 2002
• UN Infected by WTO Virus
  By Martin Khor, 6 September 2002
• Implementation Plan Passed, Drama on Corporate
  Accountability
  By Martin Khor, 4 September 2002
  
• TWN Briefings for Johannesburg
  
• 'We the Peoples Believe Another World is Possible'
  TWN Signature Campaign for Johannesburg and Beyond
  

 Official UN Documents on WSSD

• The Johannesburg Declaration on Sustianable Development
• WSSD Plan of Implementation

For additional reading, please look up the Third World Network's website and the website of the Tebtebba Foundation, Third World Network Africa, and the Third World Institute (ITEM).