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Free Trade Agreement Between the USA and Thailand Threatens Access to HIV/AIDS Treatment

12/07/2004

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11 pages long

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Access to HIV/AIDS medicines makes a huge difference to the lives of infected people and their families. Not only do these medicines help people live longer, they also greatly improve the quality of their lives, reduce the stigma and discrimination that they might experience, and enable them to contribute to the economic and social welfare […]

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Journal article

Look FIRST from a gender perspective: NAFTA and the FTAA

01/07/2004

9 pages long

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Look FIRST from a gender perspective: NAFTA and the FTAA

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Advocates for gender and economic justice have been calling for gender and social-impact assessments of trade policies for the past seven years. In 2002, Women’s Edge Coalition completed a Trade Impact Review (TIR), an economic and legal framework to analyse the ways in which women and men may be differentially affected by global trade and […]

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Briefing note

Undermining Access to Medicines: Comparison of five US FTAs: A technical note

01/06/2004

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23 pages long

Languages: English

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The US government is using bilateral and regional free-trade agreements (FTAs) to impose unnecessarily stringent intellectual property standards on developing countries that go beyond even the damaging requirements of World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules. These new higher standards favour the short-term commercial interests of US pharmaceutical companies, at the expense of public health in developing […]

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Journal article

Myths and realities of the impact of political Islam on women: female employment in Indonesia and Iran

01/06/2004

13 pages long

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Since the 11 September 2001 attacks on targets in the USA, debates concerning the situation of women in the Muslim world have tended to focus on the extent to which they are victims of religious dogma. Like any other religion, Islam can be oppressive towards women; however, working women are not affected only by religious […]

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Journal article

Challenging relations: a labour-NGO coalition to oppose the Canada-US and North American Free Trade Agreements, 1985-1993

01/02/2004

13 pages long

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In 1987-1988, a national debate erupted in Canada on the desirability of entering into a free trade agreement with the USA and its potential effect on Canadian culture, society, and national sovereignty – as well as its economy. A national coalition of labour unions and civil society groups emerged to oppose such an agreement with […]

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Journal article

Organising citizenship at Local 890’s Citizenship Project: unleashing innovation through an affiliate organisation

01/02/2004

15 pages long

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This article considers the problems of organisational survival, innovation, and inter-organisational partnerships for unions and for immigrant community-based organisations. The analysis focuses on the Citizenship Project, a project for assisting and organising Mexican immigrants, launched in 1995 by Teamsters Local 890 in response to the assault on immigrant rights in California. It concludes that new […]

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Briefing paper

Robbing the Poor to Pay the Rich? How the United States keeps medicines from the world’s poorest

01/11/2003

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37 pages long

Languages: English

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Impressive advances in medicine and technology have boosted health and extended life expectancy – but not for everyone. Vital new medicines for diseases such as HIV/AIDS are priced out of reach of the millions of sick people in the developing world, in part due to global patent rules which restrict the availability of affordable generic […]

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Journal article

New genetic technologies and their impact on women: a feminist perspective

01/05/2003

11 pages long

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New genetic technologies and their impact on women: a feminist perspective

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In wealthy countries such as the United States, new genetic and reproductive technologies, including human reproductive cloning, are being developed. To date, the short- and long- term consequences for women of human reproductive cloning have remained largely unexamined. This article analyses ten common misconceptions about new genetic technologies, especially human reproductive cloning, and shows that […]

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Briefing paper

US Bullying on Drug Patents: One year after Doha

01/11/2002

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18 pages long

Languages: English

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One year after WTO trade ministers agreed the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health, the US government, at the behest of giant pharmaceutical companies, continues to bully developing countries to introduce unnecessarily high standards of patent protection on medicines. This continued bilateral pressure restricts and delays the production of cheaper generic medicines, with potentially […]

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Briefing paper

Cultivating Poverty: The impact of US cotton subsidies on Africa

05/09/2002

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36 pages long

Languages: English

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Agriculture

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American cotton subsidies are destroying livelihoods in Africa and other developing regions. By encouraging over-production and export dumping, these subsidies are driving down world prices – now at their lowest levels since the Great Depression. While America’s cotton barons get rich on government transfers, African farmers suffer the consequences.

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