After Cancun: What next for the WTO?

cork | miscellaneous | event notice Friday October 10, 2003 23:56 by dave - Comhlámh

Comhlámh Global Impact Programme Public Forum

On World Food Day 2003 - Comhlámh would like to invite you to attend a public forum

After Cancun: What next for the WTO?

Thursday 16th October @ 8pm in the Imperial Hotel, Cork

Asha Amirali - People's Rights Movement,Pakistan
Gerard Downes - University of Limerick
Conall O'Caoimh - Comhlámh

Admission is free and all are welcome.

Further details from Comhlámh 021 4275881

Asha Amirali is an organiser with the People's Rights Movement (PRM), a non-partisan political confederation of social movements in Pakistan.
PRM attempts to unite the diverse struggles of slum dwellers, landless farmers, trade unions, fisherfolk and other peoples struggling to resist the erosion of their livelihoods and protect their age-old traditions and cultures.

The PRM is committed to resisting the capitalist onslaught and bringing about structural changes in the state, and attempts to raise political consciousness amongst movements and society in general by highlighting these struggles as arising in opposition to a social and political system characterised by its undemocratic and oppressive nature.

Asha has a recent degree in economics from Hampshire College in the US, and has worked with various non-profit organisations both in the United States and in Pakistan. She has also written for national dailies and has appeared on various television shows on current affairs in Pakistan.

Gerard Downes is a graduate of the University of Limerick where he obtained an undergraduate degree in History, Politics and Social Studies. He is currently pursuing a postgraduate degree programme in the Dept of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick
where he is specialising in an analysis of the food security implications of the TRIPs agreement. Gerard has been a Government of Ireland scholar since October 2001.

Conall O'Caoimh is Policy Officer for Comhlamh and was an observer on the official delegation from Ireland to the World Trade Organisation
talks in Cancun.