Baobab
Baobab's JournalMigrant Guest Workers- Putting a Human face on WTO Talks: By Amy Gottlieb, Director Immigrant Rights
By Amy Gottlieb, Director Immigrant Rights, AFSC New York Metropolitan Region
https://web.archive.org/web/20080515214222/https://www.afsc.org/trade-matters/trade-agreements/Hong-Kong-Mode4.htm
United Nations 2009 Final Report on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System
Report of the Commission of Experts of the President of the United Nations General Assembly on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System
September 21, 2009
http://www.un.org/ga/econcrisissummit/docs/FinalReport_CoE.pdf
Labor Mobility and the Global Economy: SHOULD THE WTO SET US MIGRATION POLICY?
http://www.afsc.org/trade-matters/issues/guest-worker-programs.htm or perhapshttps://web.archive.org/web/20080515215341/https://www.afsc.org/trade-matters/issues/LaborMobility.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20080515214301/https://www.afsc.org/trade-matters/issues/guest-worker-programs.htm
Senator Warren questions criminally negligent Federal official who let approximately 12 trillion dol
Senator Elizabeth Warren questions Leonard Chanin at Banking Hearing on Consumer Finance Regulations-squ2SAhziPo
Hillary Clinton telling us she'll be truthful? Or not?
To Promote Economic Stability, Nations Must Free Themselves from WTO Financial Deregulation Dictates
To Promote Economic Stability, Nations Must Free Themselves from WTO Financial Deregulation Dictates
available at:
http://www.citizen.org/documents/IntroductionToWTODeregulation.pdf
Also see
https://www.citizen.org/documents/Memo%20-%20Unanswered%20questions%20memo%20for%20Geneva.pdf
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Public Services and the Scope of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS): A Research Paper
Public Services and the Scope of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS): A Research Paper Written for Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) By Markus Krajewski
http://www.ciel.org/Publications/PublicServicesScope.pdf
Note: Although the TOC may evoke the TOCs of several papers I have posted previously, this is not the same paper- the reason I am posting different people's work on this specific area is because this Article I:3 (b) and (c) is a crucially important definition to understand - and hopefully eliminate- its at the root of a lot of the problems we have today with inexplicable policy "mistakes".
They are not "mistakes" they are consequences of the use of this inflexible definition of scope used in unseen back room deals basically controlling public policy without most people's knowledge.
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Table of Contents
I. Introduction............................................................................................................................3
II. Background........................................................................................................................4
1. What are "public services“?...........................................................................................4
2. Why does the scope of GATS matter?...........................................................................5
Box 1 – Examples of Possible Public Services Challenges...............................................................5
III. Provisions Determining the Substantive Scope of GATS........................................................6
IV. The use of Article I:3 (b)(c) GATS in WTO documents and discussions..........................6
1. Secretariat background notes and papers.......................................................................7
2. Discussions among WTO members...............................................................................8
V. Interpretation according to generally accepted methods of public international law.........9
1. Standards of treaty interpretation.................................................................................10
2. Supply on a "commercial basis“...................................................................................10
3. Supply in "competition with one or more service suppliers“.......................................12
4. Context of Article I:3(b),(c) GATS..............................................................................13
a) Annexes........................................................................................................................13
b) Schedules of Specific Commitments............................................................................14
5. Subsequent practice and preparatory work...................................................................15
a) Subsequent practice, agreements, and other rules of international law....................15
b) Preparatory work......................................................................................................16
6. Conclusion....................................................................................................................17
VI. Further interpretative principles: restrictive and effective interpretation.........................18
1. Restrictive Interpretation..............................................................................................18
2. Effective interpretation.................................................................................................19
VII. "Legislative“ possibilities to narrow the scope of GATS................................................20
1. Amendment to GATS or interpretative understanding................................................20
2. Authoritative interpretation..........................................................................................21
3. Non-binding statement.................................................................................................21
Geneva
May 2001
Links to graphs for major candidates tracking polls
this is just for convenience's sake - bookmarking any one of these links makes it easy to pull up the others using the right or left arrows
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017352258
--or just save this to a file-
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/hillary-clinton-favorable-rating#!smoothing=less&estimate=custom
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/bernie-sanders-favorable-rating#!smoothing=less&estimate=custom
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/donald-trump-favorable-rating#!smoothing=less&estimate=custom
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/john-kasich-favorable-rating#!smoothing=less&estimate=custom
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/ted-cruz-favorable-rating#!smoothing=less&estimate=custom
Family of slain activist asks U.S. to cut off aid to Honduras
Source: Bradenton Herald/McClatchey DC
WASHINGTON: The 25-year-old daughter of slain Honduran environmental leader Berta Cáceres traveled 1,800 miles to Washington this week to press the Obama administration for help investigating her mother’s murder.
Bertha Zúniga said she has little faith in her government’s ability to find and hold responsible the people who killed her mother. “The government had an interest in stopping her fight,” Zúniga said. “But they’ve also demonstrated a series of inconsistencies and irregularities in how they’ve gone about their investigation.”
Cáceres, co-founder of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras (Copinh), had faced death threats from Honduran authorities and private security forces, her family said, because of her fight against the construction of a hydroelectric dam planned along a river that’s sacred to the indigenous Lenca people – a fight for which she won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize last year.
On March 3rd, she was at home in La Esperanza when two men reportedly forced themselves inside and shot her multiple times.
Read more: http://www.bradenton.com/news/nation-world/world/article70060102.html
The Origins of the Third World: Markets, States and Climate
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/origins-third-worldThe “Third World” – the division of humanity into haves and have-nots – was shaped by fatal interactions between world climate and world economy at the end of the nineteenth century. Three waves of drought, famine and disease devastated agriculture throughout the tropics and northern China when the monsoons failed. The total human toll could not have been less than 30 million victims. Fifty million dead might not be unrealistic.
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