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WTO CONFERENCE 2005

From 13-18 December, 2005, the 6th WTO Ministerial Conference will be held in Hong Kong. For those in favor of the current, neo-liberal trade system, the summit's aim is to advance the conclusion of the Doha "development round" of further trade liberalization. Critics all over the world instead want to use the opportunity to save environmental sustainability, development, human rights and gender equality from the at times hazardous impacts of economic globalization as it works today. Find more informations on our campaigning website

- The resolution of the German Greens on the WTO negotiations, issued before Hongkong, is also available in English [Download...]
- Beyond Free Trade: Food sovereignty & export opportunities. A public hearing of farmers’ voices in the framework of the EcoFair Trade Dialogue [Download flyer...]
- Our Overall Programme [Download...]

Relating issues:  TRADE AND INVESTMENT RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CHINA AND LATIN AMERICA  Obstacles and Challenges to Sustainability. Study by Sara Larrain, Maria Paz Aedo y Pablo Sepulveda/ Programa Cono Sur Sustentable [Download part 1 with 9 MB] [Download part 2 with 1,8 MB] Globalization: Agriculture and international trade In order to stimulate the debate around the issues of Globalization, the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Brazil has supported the study “THE G-20: ITS ORIGIN, EVOLUTION, MEANING AND PROSPECTS”. The text points out the big news brought by the G-20 (group of developing countries lead by Brazil) to the stage of international negotiations. The most important one seems to be the very fact of a bloc of peripheral or developing countries, united in proposals and strategy, could be created to influence the direction of international negotiations in a central area (not just a marginal one) in the continuation of the Doha Round of the WTO. [Download...] Public consultation on the role of Non-state actors by the Commission of the EU: Non-state actors participation is an integral part of EC Development policy. More informations about how to participate in this public consultation [More...]

"Femme Globale" - Gender Perspectives in the 21st Century Our first info-letter on Gender Perspectives in the 21st Century is available now. You may download the pdf-version here. For more informtions about the International Congress, September 8-10, 2005, Berlin - Germany click here

+ The European Constitution After the "NON, NEE, NOT YET":
Germany should take an active role in the achivement of the Millenium Development Goals
Decision by the Group Alliance 90/The Greens in the German Bundestag [Download...] 

2004 CONFERENCE ON BIOPOLITICS  Mexico City, October 22-23: Privatization of Nature and Knowledge. Under the BIOS sign: technology, ethics, diversity and rights. Heinrich Boell Foundation. More... .

+ Summer School 2005: Engendering Economic Policies in a Globalising World:
Trade, Agriculture, And Food Security - September 1-7 in Berlin [Download complete annoncement]

GENDER  + COMPARATIVE RESEARCH ON GENDER SENSITIVE BUDGET INITIATIVES PROJECT. Program on Economy and Gender, 2002 - 2004. FUNDACIÓN BÖLL, Regional Office C.A., Mexico and Cuba. (Rough Draft, to be published by the Heinrich Böll Foundation). Authors: Lucía Pérez Fragoso, María Concepción Martínez Medina. November, 2004 [Download] + APPLYING GENDER DEMOCRACY. A Study on the Methodological and Operative Implementation of Gender Democracy in Project Planning and Evaluation. By Angela Meentzen and Enrique Gomáriz. Berlin, April 2002. [Download] .

 World Social Forum 2005, January 26-31, Porto Alegre, Brasil.
+ Summit result: Networking for a better world. [Download]
+ The World Parliamentary Forum reaches out for the strengthening of common campaigns. More...
+ Official website:click here

+ Regional Methodological Workshop: Public Spending and Free Trade Agreements from a Gender Perspective. San Salvador, El Salvador, July 8-9, 2004. More...

+ A methodological workshop on gender sensitive public budgets and free trade agreements from a gender perspective. Organized by the HBF regional office for Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean in San Salvador on the 8th and 9th July 2004. Report: [Download]

+ Canadian Supreme Court Tramples Farmers' Rights - Affirms Corporate Monopoly On Higher Life Forms. [Download]
An interview with Percy Schmeiser you can find in "La vida en venta: Transgénicos, Patentes y Diversidad Biológica". (spanish) Click here

BACKGROUND INFORMATION ABOUT THE EU/ LAC SUMMIT IN GUADALAJARA: + Amnesty International EU office press release. EU-Latin America Summit: EU talks must give greater priority to human rights defenders. More...  + Invitation to the Forum "The Gender Agenda: Global Economic Model and Local Resistences" , which will take place in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, as part of the activities of the Social Meeting "Linking Alternatives", from May 26 to 29, 2004. More... + Free trade between EU and MERCOSUR- The impact of free trade, liberalization and privatization on development and human rights. A conference organized by the Heinrich Böll Foundation (hbs) and the Center for Research and Documentation Chile - Latin America (FDCL). From May 3 to 5, 2004. Central Office of the hbs, Berlin. More... + Relations with Latin America. Click here + Website of the EU. Click here

   RENEWABLES, CONFERENCE BONN 2004

+ The New Renewables Act. By Hans-Josef Fell MdB. [Download]

+ International Conference for Renewable Energies, 1 - 4 June 2004, Bonn. http://www.renewables2004.de/ (english and german) 

+ Draft Programme of Events during Renewables 2004 [Download]

+ Transitioning to Renewable Energy. An Analytical Framework for Creating an Enabling Environment. The Heinrich Böll Foundation North America & The International Institute for Energy Conservation 2004, 77 pages. [Download]