17 December, Nairobi: LDC Watch as part of the global Our World Is Not For Sale network took part in the protest action inside the official venue of the 10th Ministerial Conference (MC10) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
Prerna Bomzan, Advocacy Co-ordinator led the chant on a binding LDC package: LDC Package, Long Overdue! We Demand Justice, Deliver Now!! Make LDC Package, Binding Now! No More Lies, Deliver Now!!
Here’s the Media Advisory:
Today, a group of civil society working together through the global Our World Is Not for Sale (OWINFS) network, present in Nairobi for the 10thMinisterial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO), used the human amplification tactic of “Mike Check” to voice their concerns about the WTO negotiations.
Civil society leaders demanded that no so-called “new issues” should be put on the agenda, particularly while the development mandate has not been concluded. They called for a binding LDC package and that the WTO Ministerial Declaration affirms the development mandate. Their chants also called for removing WTO obstacles to food security through the conclusion of a permanent solution for public stockholding, as well as special safeguard mechanisms, and disciplines on export competition.
Photos (https://www.flickr.com/photos/136911244@N07/sets/72157661797210409) and video (http://www.ourworldisnotforsale.org/en/node/24677) without copyright restrictions will be available after the action at the above links.
Civil society experts are available for interviews. For assistance setting up an interview, please contact Leonard Wanyama: (+254) 702 629 149;lwanyama@sidint.org.
Over 90 civil society experts – trade unionists, farmers, development advocates, and consumer activists – from at least 25 countries have traveled to Nairobi for the 10th Ministerial meeting of the WTO. Working through the global OWINFS network and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). Civil society delegates will be participating in OWINFS/ITUC activities from Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, France, Canada, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nepal, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, the UK, and the U.S.
OWINFS is a global network of NGOs and social movements working for a sustainable, socially just, and democratic multilateral trading system.
