Anti-WTO Campaign in Nepal

May 17, 1998

NEPALI INTELLECTUALS, HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS AND PEOPLES' NETWORK CRITICIZE AND OPPOSE WTO

Today, the Kathmandu-based International Institute for Human Rights,EnviroNment and Development (INHURED International), an international NGO with Category II Consultative Status to ECOSOC, and Rastriya Sarokar Samaj(National Concerns Society), a national campaign platform of actions,organized a open public forum on "NEPAL AND WTO: WHAT TO GAIN ? WHAT TO LOOSE ?" in Kathmandu.

Speaking at the forum, some of Nepal's reknowned eoconomists, legal,environmental and development experts, as well as the Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs and Human Rights Committee of the House of Representatives,made critical observation about WTO, and several of them strongly opposed the whole concept of WTO and GATT, and asked His Majesty's Government of Nepal not to rush for its membership. They also criticized the WTO as the most undemocratic insitution of this century and demanded the international community to help developing and the least-developed countries, like Nepal,in their struggles for freedoms from debt, imperialist globalisation and imposition of the most inhuman-profiteering-interest of multinational corporations backed by the G8 countries.

The speakers and participants of the forum also expressed their strong solidarity with the tremendous work of the Peoples' Global Action network and the alliance members around the world.

For further information, please contact:

Gopal Siwakoti 'Chintan'
Executive Director
INHURED International, and
General-Secretary
Rastriya Sarokar Samaj
P.O. Box 2125, New Plaza, Putalisadak, Kathmandu
Tel: 0977-1-429741 * Fax: 0977-1-419610
E-mail: inhuredatgopal.mos.com.np

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