Events before and during Cancun WTO Ministerial September 1-14 2003
[be aware of corrections / alterations!]
for more updates see: http://cancun.mediosindependientes.org/home/calendar/

1. Single Events:

1-7 Sept Media Convergence Training To be determined

5-7 September GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY FORUM (GBF) - Foro Global de Bioversidad: ENVIRONMENT, TRADE, AND DEVELOPMENT: TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

The Global Biodiversity Forum, convened by IUCN-The World Conservation Union, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Secretariat to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) aims to provide a platform for the trade and biodiversity communities to consider how the pursuit of their respective goals and objectives might complement or hinder each other. Specific themes to be covered include: the relationship between the WTO Agreement on Trade-related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), bio safety, and trade and sustainable livelihoods.

Who: Greenpeace and others To be determined
For further information, see: http://www.gbf.ch/


Global Week of Action of pressure on governments through various forms of non-violent actions. For further information, see: Mexico Solidarity, http://www.mexicosolidarity.org/Cancun_WTO.html

Contact: msnatmexicosolidarity.org


9:30 – 6:00 pm. • Fishers Forum/ Foro de Pescadores
Who: World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers/Foro Mundial de Pescadores y Trabajadores de La Pesca
What: Situation of artisanal fisheries, fish workers and communities relative to WTO
Place / Lugar: Sala Cabildo, de Isla Mujeres

2 pm. – 4 pm. • Voices from the South/ Voces del Sur
Who: COPA/KCTFU (Korea)
Place / Lugar: Ex-Palenque

4 pm. – 8 pm. • « Update on the social movements situation from Port Alegre to Cancun »
Who: Social Movement's Network Contact Group. , with participation from Via Campesina, Walden Bello, Raffaela Bolini and others.
Place / Lugar: Casa de la Cultura

6 pm. –8 pm. • Closing of the Convergence of Alternative and Popular Media/ Clausura de la Convergencia de Medios Alternativos y Populares
Who: Indymedia
Place / Lugar: Palapas


All day/ todo el dia • Installation of the Student Encampment/ Instalacion del Campamento de Jovernes
Who: Who Jovenes en Resistencia Alternativa
Place / Lugar: Encampment Zone/ Zona de Campamento (Supermanzana 21)

Monday September 8

9 am. – 5 pm. • Parliamentary Forum/Foro Parliamentario
Who: Parlamentarians
Place / Lugar: Hotel Fiesta Americana Condesa

Monday September 8

10 am. –2 pm. • « Coordinating a Common Agenda from Cancún to Miami »
Who: Social Movement's Network Contact Group
Place / Lugar: SNTSS (Social Security Workers Union) or Ex Palenque

Monday September 8

am. (TBD) • Forum for Peace/ Foro por La Paz
Who: Red de la Sociedad Civil
Place / Lugar: Carpa 5

Monday September 8

4 pm. – 8 pm. • « Anti-war Activists Meeting »
Who: Social Movement's Network Contact Group (includes Jakarta Peace Consensus Netowork, Continental Campaign Against Militarization)
Place / Lugar: SNTSS (Social Security Workers Union)

Monday September 8

6 pm. – 10 pm. • Delegates Assembly/ Asamblea de Delegado/as
Who: Who Espacio Mexicano
What: Meeting to coordinate activities in Cancún. Various movement groups will meet to coordinate
Place / Lugar: SNTSS (Social Security Workers Union)

Monday September 8

7 pm. – 11 pm. • Cultural Events
Place / Lugar: Las Palapas


Monday September 8

8 September: ASSEMBLY OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS

The Assembly aims to provide a space for civil society to gather information on and coordinate activities taking place around the WTO Ministerial.

For further information, contact: Comite de Bienvenida, comentariosatcancuncommittee.org.mx
Foro de Los Pueblos, infoatomcmedios.org
or Puente a Cancun, noomcatbuz.org


Monday September 8

8-9 September: Internacional Women's Forum/ Foro Internacional de las Mujeres: Women's Rights in Trade Agreements

The International Forum, organized by Mujeres Hacia Cancún / Women on the Road to Cancún / Les femmes en route vers Cancun, is a platform for women to share their views and join forces in addressing trade issues. Participants in the International Forum include, amongst others, the National Network on Gender and Economy and the Latin American Network Women Transforming the Economy (REDGE-REMTE), the World March of Women, the Mexican Action Network on Free Trade (RMALC), the Women's Commission of the Continental Social Alliance-Mexico, the National Coordination for a Feminist Millennium, the Gender and Trade Network-Mexico and the Association of Women in Network (AMMOR). The forum will host panels and debates.

8 September 10 am. – 6 pm. Plaza Caribe Best Western
9 September 10 am. – 6:00 pm. Plaza Caribe Best Western

Contact: Mujeres Hacia Cancun, mujereshaciacancunatyahoo.com.mx
Mujer Dialogo, mujerdialogoatprodigy.net.mx, Tel/Fax: + 52 (55) 5 544-2202, Tel. +52 (55) 5 544-6902
Virginia Betanzos,"Grupo Plural de Mujeres en el Estado de Quintana Roo, A.C," member of the Comite de Bienvenida, betanzos_51atyahoo.com.mx


Monday September 8

campesino8-9 September: Int'l Farmers and Indigenous Peoples Forum / Foro Int'l Campesinos e Indigena: Food Souvereignity and Free Trade

Via Campesina and UNORCA are organizing an International Peasant Forum focusing on the WTO Agreement on Agriculture and its impact on food sovereignty. The aim of the forum and the farmer's movement is to stop the advancement of negotiations at the Ministerial, defend the rights of small farmers and food sovereignty, remove the WTO from agriculture, stop the privatization of public services and patents on life.

8 September 10 am. – 10 pm. Plenary meeting of farmer organizations and their friends regarding the agricultural agreement of the WTO, followed by parallel working groups on agricultural topics. Una pleneria del organizations campesinos (UNORCA y Via Campesino) y sus amigo sobre El Acuerdo de Agricultura en el OMC, y seguido con 10 mesas de trabajo temas agriculturas.
Place / Lugar: Gimnasio y Casa de Cultura

9 September 8 am. – 10 pm. Working groups on trangenics, subsidies, Farm Bill, NAFTA, FTAA, PPP, and the impact of new technologies on small agriculture. Mesas sobre temas como: transgénicos, subsidios/ Farm Bill/ Reforma de la PAC, TLC - ALCA – PPP, impactos de nuevas tecnologías en la pequeña agricultura.
Place / Lugar: Gimnasio, Casa de La Cultura

For further information, see: www.viacampesina.org
Contact: Via Campesina, viacamatgbm.hn
UNORCA, unorcaredatlaneta.apc.org


Monday September 8

8-10 September: INTERNATIONAL PEASANT ENCAMPMENT CANCUN

Via Campesina and UNORCA are organizing an international encampment in Cancun during the International Peasant Forum. The encampment will host small farmer organizations, indigenous organizations, fishermen, sharecroppers, migrant workers, landless farmers and rural women's organizations from different countries and continents.

For further information, see: www.viacampesina.org | www.unorca.org.mx
Contact: Via Campesina, viacamatgbm.hn
UNORCA, unorcaredatlaneta.apc.org



9 September: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST THE WTO

This will be a day where civil society will raise its collective and global voice against the WTO. Events planned on the day will include direct actions, sit-ins, blockades and non-violent actions. Moreover, there will be a presentation of a global manifesto against the WTO

Contact: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wto-2003
list of global actions


Tuesday September 9

All Day • Fair Trade Fair/ Feria de Comercia Justo
Who: IATP
Place / Lugar: Coral Negra Hotel

Tuesday September 9

All Day/Todo el Dia • Installation of Student Encampment/ Evento de Estudiantes Instalacion de Campamento « Caravana Libertaria »
Who: Caravana Libertaria Carlo Giuliani
Place / Lugar: TBD

Tuesday September 9

10 am. –1 pm. • « Green Biotech? Capable of Feeding the World? »
Who: FES
Place / Lugar: Hotel Sierra (NGO Center) Hotel Zone


Tuesday September 9

10:30 am. – 8 pm. • Teach-in: Alternatives to Globalization and the World Trade Organization/ Foro Sobre el OMC

Speakers (partial list - subject to change):
Martin Khor - Third World Network, Malaysia
Vandana Shiva -Research Foundation for Science, Technology & Ecology, India
Tony Clarke - Polaris Institute, Canada
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz - Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for
Policy Research & Education, The Philippines
John Cavanagh - Institute for Policy Studies, U.S.
Sara Larrain - Chile Sustentable, Chile
Jerry Mander - International Forum on Globalization, U.S.
Walden Bello - Focus on the Global South, Thailand
Alberto Gomez - UNORCA, Mexico
Maude Barlow - Council of Canadians, Canada
Lori Wallach - Public Citizen - Global Trade Watch, U.S.
Agnes Bertrand - ECOROPA, France
& others

Who: The International Forum on Globalization (IFG)
For more information, see: www.ifg.org
Place / Lugar: Teatro Cancun (Hotel zone)


Tuesday September 9

9:30-1:30 • Global Unions Conference/ Conferencia de Sindicatos Globales « Making Globalisation Work for People »
Who: Who International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICTFU)
Place / Lugar: To be determined

Tuesday September 9

10 am. – 4 pm. • Forum on the Information Society/ Foro Sobre La Sociedad de Informacion
Who: CENCOS
Place / Lugar: TBD

Tuesday September 9

8:00 am. –9:45 am. • « Key Issues and Challenges for the Cancun Ministerial »
Who: Third World Network, Martin Khor, Tetteh Hormeku
Place / Lugar: Hotel Sierra (NGO Center) Hotel Zone

Tuesday September 9

9:00 am. – 12:00 pm. • « Agriculture, Trade and New Technologies » Panel and Workshop – Farmer's Forum
Who: Public Citizen, ETC Group, Food First, NFFC
Place / Lugar: Gimnasio Cuxil Baxall

Tuesday September 9

10 am. – 12 pm. • Continental Campaign Against the FTAA/ Campana Continental vs ALCA
Who: ASC/Coordinadora Campana Contra el Alca SNTSS (social security union hall)

Tuesday September 9

12:00 am. – 3:00 pm. • Biopiracy and Patents Panel and Workshp – Farmers' Forum Event
Who: ETC Group
Place / Lugar: Gimnasio Cuxil Baxaal

Tuesday September 9

Food Talks/ La Comida Habla
Place / Lugar: CCC Restaurant Maria Bonita


Tuesday September 9

7 pm. – 12 pm. • PEOPLES FORUM FOR AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE WTO: INAUGURAL SESSION/ APERTURA: Foro de Los Pueblos y Campesinos
Bienvenidos Cancun
Welcoming political and cultural event
Place / Lugar: Plaza de La Reforma

foro de los pueblos

The inaugural session of the People's Forum will include a political rally/cultural event in the Plaza de la Reforma to coincide with the International Day of Action against the WTO.

For more information, see Foro de Los Pueblos Por Una Alternative a La OMC: www.omcmexico.org or Alianza Social Continental: http://www.asc-hsa.org
Contact: Foro de Los Pueblos, infoatomcmedios.org or foroatomcmedios.org


Tuesday September 9

7 pm. – 11 pm. • Cultural Events/ Eventos Culturales
Bienvenida Cancun
Place / Lugar: Parque de las Palapas

Tuesday September 9

7:30-9:00 pm. • Agriculture Caucus
Place / Lugar: Margaritas Hotel (30)

Tuesday September 9

Need update on time • Corporate Spoof Awards/ Parodia de Premios Para Corporaciones
Who: Polaris Institute, FOEI others
Place / Lugar: Teatro Cancun (Hotel Zone)


Tuesday September 9

9 September: FAO SYMPOSIUM ON AGRICULTURE, TRADE REFORMS AND WORLD FOOD SECURITY

The FAO is organizing a symposium on the theme of agriculture trade reforms. The symposium will centre on the experience and lessons learned by developed and developing countries in relation to agriculture trade reforms. Moreover, the discussions will also focus on food security and rural development, mechanisms of financing imports of basic foodstuffs, and the impact of the SPS/TBT Agreements on developing countries. Speakers will include, S. Tangeman (OECD), H. Thomas (FAO), A. Sarris (FAO), L. Rutten (UNCTAD) and John Wilson (World Bank). The symposium will be held on the 9th September at the Sierra Hotel, Meeting Room 10C, from 3:00 until 6:00 p.m.


Tuesday September 9

9 & 12 September: CANCUN SESSION OF THE PARLIAMENTARY CONFERENCE ON THE WTO

The International Parliamentary Union (IPU) is hosting a parliamentary session that will focus on some of the most controversial areas of the current trade negotiations, such as agricultural export subsidies, intellectual property rights and access to essential pharmaceutical products, and trade in services. While leaving the job of actual negotiations to governments, members of parliaments intend to exercise their right of overseeing government action at Cancun in this field. The session will be held at the Hotel Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach, within the vicinity of the Ministerial Conference. WTO accreditation will be required to gain access to the hotel. The session is only for parliamentarians.

For further information, see: http://www.ipu.org/splz-e/cancun.htm


INTERNATIONAL PEASANT MARCH / Marcha de los Campesinos: FOR PEASANT RIGHTS AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY

Via Campesina and UNORCA are organizing an International Peasant March in order to raise the issues of the rights of peasants and food sovereignty. The march will bring together small farmer's organizations, indigenous organizations, fishermen, sharecroppers, migrant workers, landless farmers, rural women's organizations and civil society from different countries and continents.

For further information, see: www.viacampesina.org

Contact: Via Campesina, viacamatgbm.hn
UNORCA, unorcaredatlaneta.apc.org


Wednesday September 10

Todo el Dia/All Day • Fair Trade Fair/ Feria Comercial
Who: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
Place / Lugar: Coral Negro

The Institute for Agricultural Trade Policy (IATP) and Comercio Justo are organizing an international fair trade fair that will allow fair trade producers, traders, retailers, and NGO's committed to fair trade to display their products and share their experiences, in order to show that there is a fairer model of trade than the one discussed by the WTO.

For further information, see: http://www.fairtradeexpo.org

Solidarity Meeting on Cuba/ Mesa de Solidaridad con Cuba
Place / Lugar: tbd

Sustainable Trade Symposium/ Simposium Sobre Comercio


Wednesday September 10

10 am. – 8:30 pm. • Böll Forum opening Session: « Trade and Environment / Trade in Services » (day one, three-day conference)

The Heinrich Böll Foundation is organizing a four-day forum on the impact of the WTO Agreements. The opening session, from 9:30 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. will focus on "The WTO and MEAs: The Doha Round and Beyond." The second session, from 12:30 until 3:00 p.m., will focus on "The Nafta Environmental Protection Record: Lessons and Warnings for Bilateral Trade, the FTAA and the WTO." All sessions will take place at the Best Western Hotel, Plaza Caribe, Tulum 13, Cancun and will be open to the public.

For further information, see: http://www.cancun2003.org/
Place / Lugar: Plaza Caribe Hotel


Wednesday September 10

10 am.- 12 pm. • PEOPLE'S FORUM: Agriculture Central Panel (time may change)

The People's Forum for an Alternative to the WTO will be hosting a day of discussion and events on the theme of agriculture.

For more information, see Foro de Los Pueblos Por Una Alternative a La OMC: www.omcmexico.org
Contact: infoatomcmedios.org or foroatomcmedios.org
Place / Lugar: Gimasio


Wednesday September 10

10 am.- 6 pm. • Forestry Forum/ Foro Forestal

North American and Mexican NGOs (Pacific Environment, Organizacion de Ejidos Productores Forestables de La Zona Maya, OEPFZM, UNORCA, Red México al Frente del Libre Comerico (RMALC), International Forum on Globalization (IFG), International Indian Treaty Council, and American Lands) are organizing an NGO Forest Forum to discuss trade, sustainable forest management and the rights of the forest communities. The forum will host presentations, expositions, panels and workshops on issues such the WTO and the survival of forests, trade and timber markets, international trade and the privatisation of land, biodiversity and environmental management, traditional knowledge versus bio-terrorism, forest communities versus industrial plantations, sustainable forest management and certification, eco-tourism and forest products not derived from timber.

more details
For further information, contact: Cynthia Josayma, Pacific Environment,
cjosaymaatpacificenvironment.org
http://uk.f600.mail.yahoo.com/ym/...
Place / Lugar: Calinda America Hotel


Wednesday September 10

10 am.- 6 pm. • International Union Forum/ Foro Internacional Sindical
Place / Lugar: tbd

Wednesday September 10

2 pm.- 4 pm. • « Business Rules: Corporate Power, Agriculture and Biodiversity »
Who:
FOEI, PC
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas (70)

Wednesday September 10

2 pm.- 4 pm. • Seminar on WTO Trade Negotiations Positions
Who:
IGTN
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas (200)

Wednesday September 10

3-6 pm. • Panel Discussion - WTO and Investment
Who: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES)
For further information, please contact: infoatfes-geneva.org
Place / Lugar: NGO Centre, Hotel Sierra, Room 8.

Wednesday September 10

7:30-9:00 pm. • Agriculture Caucus
Who:
IATP, Via Campesina, Public Citizen, Others
Place / Lugar: Margaritas Hotel (30)


Wednesday September 10

12:00 – 3:00 pm. • Panel Discussion - The WTO and beyond: Cancun, Multilateralism and Sustainable Development

The panel discussion "The WTO and Beyond: Cancun, multilateralism and sustainable development" will be chaired by George Monbiot. Speakers include David Heldt, Kamal Malhotra (UNDP), Everton Vargas and Jan Pronk.

For further information, see: http://www.ictsd.org/ministerial/index.htm
Place / Lugar: NGO Centre, Cancun


Wednesday September 10

Böll Forum: GATS and Gender

4:30 – 6:30 p.m • forum session on "Liberalization of Services: Impacts and Alternatives"
Place / Lugar: Best Western Hotel, Plaza Caribe, Tulum 13, Cancun

7:00 – 8:30 p.m. • forum session on "GATS and the WTO Development Agenda after Doha"
Place / Lugar: Best Western Hotel, Plaza Caribe, Tulum 13, Cancun

For further information, see: http://www.cancun2003.org


Wednesday September 10

7:00 pm • Ecolabelled Foods Dinner

Consumer's Choice Council is organizing an Ecolabelled Foods Dinner, entitled "Dinner Stories," in order to highlight sustainable food production, ecolabels and local Mexican produce. Victor Lichtinger, Mexican Minister of Environment and Natural Resources; Renate Kunast, the German Minister for Agriculture and Consumer Affairs; and Pascal Lamy, Commissioner of Trade for the European Commission have been invited to co-host the event. Members of the international media and delegates in attendance at the WTO Ministerial are invited to attend.

Place / Lugar: Cancun's Restaurante Maria Bonita.
For further information, see: www.consumerscoucil.org
Contact: consumeratattglobal.net


Wednesday September 10

10-11 September: SUSTAINABLE TRADE SYMPOSIUM

In parallel to the Fair Trade Fair, the Institute for Agricultural Trade Policy (IATP) and Comercio Justo are organizing a sustainable trade symposium. This event will host speakers from all over the world presenting innovative approaches to international trade and exploring the reforms that are needed to make trade policy fairer worldwide. Specific attention will be given to how WTO rules and the current negotiations are affecting Fair Trade, eco-labelling and other sustainable trade initiatives.

For further information, see: http://www.fairtradeexpo.org
Contact: Sonja Zimmermann, sonja.zimmermannatgersterconsulting.ch
Tel: +41 79 310 85 84


11 September: INTERNATIONAL PEACE DAY

International day of protest against war, state terror and terrorism.
For further information, see: http: www.unitedforpeace.org


Thursday September 11

Todo el Dia/All Day • Fair Trade Fair/ Feria Comercial
Who: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
Place / Lugar: Coral Negro

Thursday September 11

Solidarity Meeting on Cuba/ Mesa de Solidaridad con Cuba
Place / Lugar: tbd

Thursday September 11

Sustainable Trade Symposium/ Simposium Sobre Comercio


Thursday September 11

9:00 am. – 1:00 pm. • SIGTUR Forum: Voices from the South and Toward Real Solidarity Between North and South
Who:
SIGTUR (Southern Initiative on Globalisation and Trade Union Rights)
Place / Lugar: To be determined
more details


Thursday September 11

9:30 am. – 6:30 pm. • Böll Forum: « Resisting the WTO-grab for Water » (day 2 of three-day conference)

The Heinrich Böll Foundation will host a forum session entitled "Multilateral Policies on Standby for the Transnational Water Companies" from 9:30 until 11:00 a.m., a session on "Case Studies on the Effects of Water Privatisation on the Local Level" from 11:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. and a session entitled "Towards a Just and Sustainable Water Policy" from 1:30 until 3:00 p.m. All sessions will take place at the Best Western Hotel, Plaza Caribe, Tulum 13, Cancun and will be open to the public.

For further information, see: http://www.cancun2003.org
Place / Lugar: Plaza Caribe Hotel


Thursday September 11

10 am. – 1 pm. • Central Panel of People's Forum: Report on the WTO Negotiations AND Panel on Militarization and Globalization

The People's Forum for an Alternative to the WTO will be hosting a day of discussion and events on the theme of trade and war.

Who: Mexican Organizing Space, OWINFS, Continental Coordinating Committee Against the FTAA / For more information, see Foro de Los Pueblos Por Una Alternative a La OMC: www.omcmexico.org
Contact: infoatomcmedios.org or foroatomcmedios.org
Place / Lugar: Bienvenidos a Cancun Ex-Palenque


Thursday September 11

10 am. – 3 pm. • Meeting Between Farmers and Trade Unionists/ Encuentro Campesinos Sindical
Place / Lugar: Gimnasio Cuxil Baxaal


Thursday September 11

10 am. –1 pm. • Panes Discussion: « The Doha Development Round: Everything for the Corporations? - No Rights for Workers? »

Who: FES (Sprkr include: Social movements ICFTU)
For further information, please contact: infoatfes-geneva.org
Place / Lugar: Sierra Cancun (NGO Center) Hotel Zone, Room 8.


Thursday September 11

10 am. – 6 pm. • Indigenous Peoples' Forum/ Foro Indigena
Who: COCEI, Movimiento Por La Paz, Foro Maya Peninsular, ANIPA, 500 Pueblos
Place / Lugar: tbd

Thursday September 11

10 am. – 6 pm. • International Union Forum/ Foro Internacional Sindical
Place / Lugar: tbd

Thursday September 11

10 am. – 1 pm. • Panel on Agriculture/ Penel Sobre Agricultura
Who: Espacio Mexicano
Place / Lugar: tbd

Thursday September 11

10 am. – 6 pm. • Zapatismo and Resistance/ Zapatismo y Resistencia
Who: Juventud en Resistencia
Place / Lugar: Casa de La Cultura


Thursday September 11

10 am. – 1 pm. • Corn, Biotechnology and Trade/ Maiz, Biotecnologia, y Comercio

The Consumer's Choice Council is organizing a symposium on "Corn, Biotechnology, and Trade." The aim of the symposium is to discuss the challenges posed to farmers, export markets, and biodiversity by the advent of genetically engineered corn. The event will be chaired by the Rep. Sam Farr (US) and will include speakers form the U.S., Mexico, Canada, South Africa, and China. The symposium will be held between 10:00 am and 1:00 pm, at the Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach Hotel (Grand Coral 3 room), within the vicinity of the Ministerial Conference. WTO accreditation will be required to gain access to the hotel.

For further information, see: www.consumerscoucil.org
Contact: consumeratattglobal.net
Place / Lugar: Hotel Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach conference room


Thursday September 11

2 – 4 pm. • « Agriculture, Trade and New Technologies » Part of Farmers' Forum
Who: ETC. Group, FOEI, Public Citizen, Council of Canadians, Hungarian Coop for Organic Farming
Place / Lugar: Casa de la Cultura

Thursday September 11

2 – 4 pm. • Agriculture Panel and Discussion
Who: IATP and PC
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas (30)

Thursday September 11

2 – 4 pm. • Fair Trade Workshop
Who: Int'l South Group Network
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas (70)

Thursday September 11

2 pm. – 5 pm. • « Militarization, Globalization and Resistance » Seminario Sobre Militarizacion y el OMC
Who: Polaris y Focus on the Global South
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas (200)


Thursday September 11

2 pm. – 5 pm. • Teach-In: Human Rights Strategies for Trade Justice

The International NGO Committee on Human Rights in Trade and Investment (INCHRITI) is organizing a teach-in on "Human rights strategies for trade justice".

For further information, contact Peter Prove, INCHRITI, pnpatlutheranworld.org


Thursday September 11

3 – 5 pm. • Panel Discussion: « GATS-Mode 4 »

Who: FES (speakers include parliamentarians)
For further information, please contact: infoatfes-geneva.org
Place / Lugar: Sierra Cancun (NGO Center) Hotel Zone, Room 8.


Thursday September 11

4 – 6 pm. • « Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Local Communities »
Who: CIEL
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas


Thursday September 11

Böll Forum: Global Greens

4:30 – 6:30 p.m. • forum session "The Hidden Cost of Trade"
Place / Lugar: Best Western Hotel, Plaza Caribe, Tulum 13, Cancun

6:30 – 8:30 p.m. • forum session "Meeting Global Greens"
Place / Lugar: Best Western Hotel, Plaza Caribe, Tulum 13, Cancun

For further information, see: http://www.cancun2003.org


Thursday September 11

5 – 8 pm. • TNC's, Corruption and the WTO
Who: IBON, Asia Pacific Research Network
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas (200)

Thursday September 11

5:15 – 6:45 pm. • « The Singapore Issues: What's At Stake »
Who: Third World Network, Yao Grahm, Cecilia Oh, Tetteh Hormeku
Place / Lugar: Hotel Sierra (NGO Center) Hotel Zone

Thursday September 11

6 – 8 pm. • CAFTA Workshop
Who: Friends of the Earth
Place / Lugar: Margaritas Hotel

Thursday September 11

6 – 10 pm. • New Trends in Technology/ Nuevas Tendencias en Technologia
Who: ETC, IFG
Place / Lugar: Casa de la Cultura

Thursday September 11

7:30 – 9:00 pm. • Agriculture Caucus
Who: IATP, Via Campesina, Public Citizen, Others
Place / Lugar: Margaritas Hotel (30)

Thursday September 11

8 – 10 pm. • « Views from Africa: Globalization and Recolonization »
Who: AIDC and African Trade Network
Place / Lugar: Margaritas Hotel (70)


Thursday September 11

11 September: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON IMPLEMENTING THE HUMAN RIGHT TO FOOD: DOMESTIC OBLIGATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN AGRICULTURE

Rights & Democracy, the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and Food First Information Action Network (FIAN) are hosting a roundtable discussion that will focus on the implementation of state obligations under international human rights law and compliance with international trade agreements, such as the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. It will identify the value-added of a human rights framework for economic policy-making and make suggestions for an Agreement on Agriculture that would respect human rights. Moreover, it will discuss the progress of the FAO's Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Food and the issue of effective remedies for violations of the right to food.

For further information, see: www.ichrdd.ca
Contact: Carole Samdup, Rights & Democracy, csamdupatichrdd.ca
Stuart Clark, Canada Foodgrains Bank, s_clarkatfoodgrainsbank.ca
Michael Windfuhr, FIAN, windfuhratfian.org


Thursday September 11/ Friday September 12

CANCUN TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT SYMPOSIUM

The Cancun Trade and Development Symposium (CTDS) is co-convened by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), and El Colegio de Mexico. The Symposium aims to encourage innovative thinking on issues related to trade and development, to be translated into inputs for the negotiations. Confirmed participants include: the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Bangladesh; Christian Aid; the Global Value Chain (GVC) Network, the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), the International Instituted for Environment and Development (IIED), the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Oxfam International, the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO), the World Bank, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development Programme (WWF MPO). The Symposium will be held at the Hotel Gran Melia, Cancun. It is open to the public and to all those who wish to participate.

http://test.iisd.org/pdf/2003/trade_cancun_agenda_sept11.pdf

For further information, http://www.ictsd.org/ministerial/index.htm
Contact: Bernice Lee, ICTSD, bleeatictsd.org

Friday September 12

9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m • Investment as if Sustainable Development Really Mattered
Who: IISD
http://test.iisd.org/pdf/2003/trade_cancun_agenda_sept_12.pdf
Place / Lugar: Hotel Gran Melia

IISD will be organizing this session - part of the ICTSD's Cancun Trade and Development Symposium - in collaboration with:
• Royal Institute of International Affairs
• Center for International Environmental Law
• Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts
• International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
• Research and Information Service for Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries
• World Resources Institute
The discussions will start with the linkages between FDI and development, through the lessons from existing agreements and sectors, and finally to an effort to think about the shape of investment agreements that would work for sustainable development.


All Day Fair Trade Fair/ Feria Comercial
Who: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
Place / Lugar: Coral Negro

Solidarity Meeting on Cuba/ Mesa de Solidaridad con Cuba

All Day Women's Seminar on Globalization/ Seminar de Mujeres Sobre Globalizacion

All Day Fair Trade Strategy of the Americas Forum/ Foro Sobre Estrategia de Comercio Justo de Las Americas

Sustainable Trade Symposium/ Simposium Sobre Comercio SUSTAIN
Place / Lugar: La Casa Maya


Friday September 12

9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m • Panel Discussion: Towards Development: Human Rights and the WTO Agenda

Rights & Democracy and 3D-Trade-Human Rights-Equitable Economy are organizing a panel discussion examining international trade rules and practice through the lens of international human rights norms. The aim of the panel is to increase the level of comfort around discussion of human rights within international trade circles, in order to ensure more policy coherence between the promotion of trade and the protection of human rights. Confirmed speakers include: Mary Robinson, Executive Director of the Ethical Globalization Initiative and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Professor Paul Hunt, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health; and Jean-Louis Roy, President of Rights & Democracy.

For further information, contact: Caroline Dommen, 3D-Trade-Human Rights-Equitable Economy, infoat3dthree.org
Carole Samdup, Rights & Democracy, csamdupatichrdd.ca
Place / Lugar: Hotel Krystal, Cancun. WTO accreditation will be required to gain access to the venue.


Friday September 12

10 am. – 1 pm. • Panel Discussion: « A Gender Agenda for the WTO »

Who: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES)
For further information, please contact: infoatfes-geneva.org
Place / Lugar: NGO Centre, Hotel Sierra, Room 8.


Friday September 12

10:30 am. – 8:30 pm. • Böll Forum: « Cultural Diversity, TRIPS, Ag and Sovereignty » (day 3 of three-day conference)

Who: The Heinrich Böll Foundation
For further information, see: http://www.cancun2003.org
Place / Lugar: Best Western Hotel, Plaza Caribe, Tulum 13, Cancun

Cultural Diversity

10:15 – 11:45 a.m. • panel discussion "GATS and Sustainable Development - How does Liberalization of Trade in Audiovisual and Cultural Services Challenge Cultural Diversity?"

11:45 – 12:30 p.m. • "Cancun Declaration on Cultural Diversity"

Place / Lugar: Best Western Hotel, Plaza Caribe, Tulum 13, Cancun
For further information, see: http://www.cancun2003.org

Böll Forum: AGREEMENT ON AGRICULTURE

4:00 – 8:30 p.m. • two panel discussions "Greening Agriculture in the Face of Globalization: A Dialogue on the Way Forward" and "Who Will Feed the World? Liberalization of Agricultural Trade Through the Agreement on Agriculture and Food Sovereignty"

Place / Lugar: Best Western Hotel, Plaza Caribe, Tulum 13, Cancun
For further information, see: http://www.cancun2003.org


Friday September 12

10 am. – 1 p.m. • Central Panel of People's Forum: Report on the WTO Negotiations AND Panel on Privatization of Services
Who: Mexican Organizing Space, OWINFS, Continental Coordinating Committee Against the FTAA, Bienvenidos a Cancún
Place / Lugar: Ex-Palenque

Friday September 12

10 am. – 6 pm. • International Union Forum/ Foro Internacional Sindical

Friday September 12

1 – 2 pm. • Services and Investment Workshop
Who: Council of Canadians
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas (200)

Friday September 12

2 – 4 pm. • « GATS Information Exchange »
Who: CIEL, World Development Movement
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas (70)

Friday September 12

2 – 4 pm. • « Whatever Happened to the Development Agenda? »
Who: Third World Network
Place / Lugar: Hotel Sierra (NGO Center) Hotel Zone

Friday September 12

2 – 5 pm. • « Seminar on Bilaterals and FTA's »
Who: Our World is Not for Sale
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas (200)


Friday September 12

3 – 5 pm. • Panel Discussion: « Peasant Farmers, Small Scale Farmers and Market Access »

Who: FES (speakers include National Farmers' Union in Zambia)
For further information, please contact: infoatfes-geneva.org
Place / Lugar: Sierra Cancun (NGO Center) Hotel Zone, Room 8.


Friday September 12

4 – 6 pm. • Business Rules: Corporate Power, Foreign Investment, and GATS
Who: FOEI, PC, Polaris
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas (70)

Friday September 12

5 – 8 pm. • GATS Water Tribunal
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas (200)

Friday September 12

6 – 9 pm. • Views from Africa: Defending Our Services and Rights
Who: AIDC, African Trade Network
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas (70)

Friday September 12

7:30 – 9:00 pm. • Agriculture Caucus
Who: IATP, Via Campesina, Public Citizen, Others
Place / Lugar: Margaritas Hotel (30)

Friday September 12

8 – 10 pm. • Venezuela: the Situation Facing the WTO and the FTAA/ La Situacion Frente La OMC y ALCA
Who: Global Exchange
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas (200)


Friday September 12

FAIR TRADE STRATEGY OF THE AMERICAS POLICY FORUM

The Fair Trade Policy Forum aims to complement the Sustainable Trade Symposium, by serving as a springboard for a more coordinated Fair Trade Strategy of the Americas, with the participation of key stakeholder groups. Participants include farmers, artisan groups, NGOs, certification organizations, government and multilateral agency representatives. Equiterr, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and Comercio Justo will lead this process. In order to carry this process forward beyond Cancun 2003, working groups will be established among different stakeholder groups.

For further information, see: http://www.fairtradeexpo.org
Contact: Kari Hamerschlag, Earthlink, Tel: +510-207-7257; karihamatearthlink.net
Isabelle St-Germain, Equiterr, Tel: +1 514 522 2000 poste 222, istgatequiterr.qc.ca

Friday September 12

PEOPLE'S FORUM: PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC SERVICES

The People's Forum for an Alternative to the WTO will be hosting a day of discussion and events on the theme of privatisation of public services.

For more information, see Foro de Los Pueblos Por Una Alternative a La OMC: www.omcmexico.org
Contact: infoatomcmedios.org or foroatomcmedios.org


DAY OF GLOBAL PROTEST AGAINST GLOBALIZATION AND WAR

Day of Global uprising for peace and justice aimed at resisting the WTO and corporate globalization. Civil society aims to highlight the links between militarism and "free trade," through a wide variety of creative means: teach-ins, vigils, protests, direct action, street theatre, festivals of resistance, cultural events, meetings with elected officials, public forums, and so on.

For further information, see: http: http://www.mexicosolidarity.org/Cancun_WTO.html
Contact: msnatmexicosolidarity.org
http://uk.f600.mail.yahoo.com/ym/...

The Big March against Corporate Driven Globalization and Militarization/ La Marcha Grande..
time to be determined *****MARCH!!!!!!!!

Saturday September 13

9- 9:30 am. • Agricultural Briefing/ Briefing Agricultura
Who: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas


Saturday September 13

9 am. – 11 am. • MEAs and the WTO
http://test.iisd.org/pdf/2003/trade_cancun_agenda_sept_13.pdf

IISD and the Royal Institute of International Affairs will be convening a workshop on the relationship between WTO rules and the MEAs, with a focus on the Doha negotiations. The event builds on an earlier experts' workshop at Chatham House in London, and briefing sessions in Brussels and Geneva.

Place / Lugar: NGO Centre


Saturday September 13

10 am. – 12 am. • Panel Discussion: « Environmental Consequences of Service Liberalization »
Who: FES
For further information, please contact: infoatfes-geneva.org
Place / Lugar: Sierra Cancun (NGO Center) Hotel Zone


Saturday September 13

10 am. – 6pm. • International Union Forum/ Foro Internacional Sindical
Who: Union Nacional de Trabajadores (UNT), Frente Sindical Mexicano (FSM)
Place / Lugar: Teatro Cancun

Saturday September 13

10 am. –12 pm. • « Business Rules? Corporations and the Environment »
Who: FOEI, Polaris, Public Citizen.
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas

Saturday September 13

10 am. – 1 pm. • GATS Speak-Out: Water Struggles and Victories
Who: Polaris Institute
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas (200)

Saturday September 13

1 pm. – 3 pm. • Workshop on FTAA and Investment/ Tallera Sobre ALCA y Inversion
Who: FOE
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas (200)

Saturday September 13

2 pm. – 4 pm. • « Bite Back Bush: Stop GMO Force Feeding by the WTO »
Who: CIEL, FOEI, Public Citizen
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas (70)


Saturday September 13

5 – 6 pm. • Book Launch, The State of Trade Law and the Environment

This book, produced by IISD and the Center for International Environmental Law explores four key issues, tracking their progress from the pre-WTO rulings to the latest decisions, examining in each case the environmental implications, and the implications for the Doha negotiations. The issues, which the authors find have fundamentally changed over the last decade, are: PPMs and extraterritoriality; WTO-MEAs; science and precaution; and TRIPS-CBD.

Place / Lugar: NGO Centre


Saturday September 13

7:30-9:00 pm. • Agriculture Caucus
Who: IATP, Via Campesina, Public Citizen, Others
Place / Lugar: Margaritas Hotel (30)


8 am. – 6 pm. • Forum on Trade Agreements and Democratic Alternatives/ Foro sobre « Acuerdos de Comercio y Alternativas Democráticas »
Who: Red SEPA
Place / Lugar: Hotel Raddison

Sunday September 14

Maquiladoras Forum/ Foro de Las Maquiladoras
Who: Coalicion para Justicia en Las Maquiladoras (CJM)
Place / Lugar: Casa de La Cultura

Sunday September 14

Agriculture Briefing/ Briefing Agricultura
Who: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas

Sunday September 14

10:15 am. – 1:15 pm. • The Cancun Outcome: Prospects and Problems
Who: Third World Network
Place / Lugar: Hotel Sierra (NGO Center) Hotel Zone


Sunday September 14

10:00 am. –1:00 pm. • Central Panel of People's Forum: Report on the WTO Negotiations AND Panel on the Environment and Natural Resources

The People's Forum for an Alternative to the WTO will be hosting a day of discussion and events on the environment and natural resources.

For more information, see Foro de Los Pueblos Por Una Alternative a La OMC: www.omcmexico.org
Who: Mexican Organizing Space, OWINFS, Continental Coordinating Committee Against the FTAA
Contact: infoatomcmedios.org or foroatomcmedios.org
Place / Lugar: Bienvenidos a Cancún Ex-Palenque


Sunday September 14

11 am. – 1:30 pm; • Panel Discussion: Changes and Limits of WTO Reform and the Future of Multilateral Trade

The Heinrich Böll Foundation is organizing a panel discussion on the theme of WTO reform. The panel will "showcase" the UNDP-study approach to WTO reform, which bases its suggestions on the imperative of human rather than economic development, suggest a more human rights based approach to reform and contrast these proposals with alternative civil society views that believe the WTO to be beyond "reformability." The panellists will include, amongst others, Kamal Malhotra (UNDP), Mariama Williams (IGTN) and Fritz Kuhn, German Green Parliamentary Group.

For further information, please contact: Liane Schalatek, HBF Washington, lianeatboell.org
Place / Lugar: Best Western Hotel, Plaza Caribe, Tulum 13, downtown Cancun


Sunday September 14

2- 4 pm. • Subsidies for the Fishing Industry/ Subsidios para La Industria Pesquera
Who: CIEL/OWINFS
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas (30)

Sunday September 14

2 - 5 pm. • Trade and Debt/ Comercio y Deuda
Who: Jubilee South, AIDC, ATN H
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas (70)

Sunday September 14

2 - 5 pm. • « The Road from Cancun to Miami » Seminar/ Plenaria Sobre el Camino de Cancun Hasta Miami
Who: OWINFS, Continental Campaign Against ALCA, HSA, CTC
Place / Lugar: Hotel Margaritas (200)

Sunday September 14

4 – 6 pm. • Implications of Nanotechnology
Who: ETC Group and Heinrich Böll Foundation
Böll Forum venue

Sunday September 14

7:30-9:00 pm. • Agriculture Caucus
Who: IATP, Via Campesina, Public Citizen, Others
Place / Lugar: Margaritas Hotel (30)

Sunday September 14

5 pm. – 11 pm. • Closing of the People's and Farmer's Forum/
Who: Clausura del Foro de los Pueblos y Foro Campesinos
Place / Lugar: Bienvenida Cancun, Espacio Mexicana

Sunday September 14

Closing cultural and political event.
Place / Lugar: Ex-Palenque
Contact Information for Organizations

2. General / Ongoing Events:

WWW.RADIOCANCUN.ORG

The Institute for Agricultural Trade Policy (IATP) is launching an internet radio service called RadioCancun.org, which begins broadcasting July 16th with a special presentation of Mexican farmers and peasant leaders discussing the impact of global trade, NAFTA and the WTO on Mexico. RadioCancun.org will present weekly news summaries and special reports through August. In September it will begin broadcasting daily from Cancun and cover the WTO Ministerial from start to finish.

For further information, see: http://www.radiocancun.org/

3. Sources of Information on Events:

www.ictsd.org/ministerial/index.htm
www.ictsd.org/cal/2003calendar.htm
www.investmentwatch.org (via resources, click on events)
www.laneta.apc.org/omcmexico/index.shtml
http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/free/cancun
www.omcmexico.org
www.radicalendar.org/group/cancun
www.attac.de/cancun/aktionswoche.php

ICTSD materials, inc their daily briefings for sharing info at Cancun (time as yet uncertain):
http://www.ictsd.org/ministerial/index.htm

The official Mexico Organising Committee has its website at
http://www.omcmexico.org.mx/WebPage/index_EN.php

Its NGO section has a page on 'simultaneous events'
http://www.ong-omcmexico.org.mx/WebPage/web/paralelos_EN.php
(see the draft programme at the bottom of this list for what's already happening; this is probably a good place to add a notice of your events, if they are going to be in one of the two venues covered)

For Mexican civil society site, see
http://www.laneta.apc.org/omc2/index1.shtml


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