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Press Coverage: G20 Counter-Summit, St-Petersburg, Russia



Series of links to TV and Radio Coverage of the G20 Counter-Summit, and to written articles published online.

VIDEOS G20 Counter-Summit: OPENING / Resisting Global Corporate Governance: Voices For System Change


G20 Counter-Summit, St-Petersburg, Russia

OPENING: Resisting Global Corporate Governance: Voices For System Change

Fortalecer - e não enfraquecer - o papel da UNCTAD na Governança Global: Rumo a um desenvolvimento sustentável e inclusivo, não a mais crises.

Desde a chegada da crise econômica e financeira global, a UNCTAD desempenhou um papel importante em identificar as principais causas da crise, apoiando os países em desenvolvimento na busca de soluções para os impactos da crise e defendendo a reforma das políticas econômicas e financeiras globais e da governança para prevenir a recorrência de crises semelhantes. Estes são todos papéis fundamentais que, na perspectiva do desenvolvimento, não são cumpridos por nenhuma outra instituição econômica multilateral.

WTO Summit to Ignore Price Crisis, Agricultural Dumping

Around the world, chronically low crop prices are keeping farmers from making a living despite record harvests

"What we need is system change!" / G20 Counter-Summit Final Declaration, St-Petersburg, Russia (Sept. 2013)


DECLARATION OF THE G20 COUNTER-SUMMIT
St Petersburg, 4 September 2013

Social movements and civil society organizations from different parts of the world have met on 3 -4 September 2013 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on the eve of the G20 Summit and in a context of the threat by the United States of America (USA) to attack Syria. With the participation of more than 30 international delegates of world social movements, our G20 Counter-Summit, was hosted by the Post-Globalization Initiative.

Civil society protest at 10th WTO Ministerial Conference, Nairobi, 17 December 2015

Today, a group of civil society working together through the global Our World Is Not for Sale (OWINFS) network, present in Nairobi for the 10th Ministerial 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.