Cancun -Civil Society Actions and Campaigns

Globalisation continues to dispossess and disenfranchise communities in Africa. Social justice movements must continue to work together to make alternative voices and opinions heard in public debates and policy making circles.
Our strength is in our numbers. ATN aims to build solidarity between groups to support each others' campaigns around trade and economic justice.

Below are articles about the many campaigns throughout Africa and beyond campigning against globalisation and for Fair Trade - taking place in Cancun itself and around the globe.

Civil Societies Oppose the 5th WTO Ministerial - Chart of International Activities


Cancun draws 2,000 NGOs from 83 countries
This week's World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial conference in the Mexican resort of Cancun will also serve as a showcase and podium for nearly 2,000 civil society organisations from 83 countries, whose members have been flowing in by the plane- and bus-loads.

Farmers, unions urge Ghana government not to cede to pressure from EU and US
At a rally and a march organised by the General Agricultural Workers’ Union in Accra today, workers, farmers and students came together to express a resounding vote of no confidence in the WTO Ministerial meeting in Cancun.

Mauritius in Worldwide Protests against the WTO
More than 500 people marched in Port-Louis this afternoon against the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

Campaign Activities in Ghana
The General Agricultural Workers’ Union of the TUS and other Civil Society Organisations held a forum and March on Wednesday 10th September to publicise their view on the Canun Ministerial meeting and to put pressure on the Government of Ghana not to sign an agreement that did not meet the interests of the people of Africa.

Africa Trade Network - Programme of Action in Cancun -
African Peoples Caucus At The WTO Ministerial in Cancun
Call To All African Civil Society Organisations and Individuals - Going as part of their Government delegations - Working 'on the inside' accredited to the WTO - Acting 'On the Outside' with other peoples’ organisations

Consumers International’s shopping list for six billion consumers
London: With less than two weeks before crucial World Trade Organization (WTO) talks in Cancun, Mexico, Consumers International has found a novel way of presenting its demands to delegates - in the form of a shopping list for the world’s six billion consumers.

Campaign activities in Kenya
Here is a brief report on what Kenyan civil society has been doing in the run up to Cancun and what we are taking to Cancun

Alternative Information Development Centre: Teach in on Community House, Wednesday 3rd September
The last few years has seen a growing tide of opposition and resistance to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) from workers, farmers, students, activists, academics and millions of others across the world.

Mauritius: update on September 10 and other WTO/Cancun activities
There will be a national demonstration preceded by simultaneous workshops in trade union federations, Lalit and social organisations on the 10th of September.

Cancun Watch Day - 10 September 2003 - Africa must say “No” to expanding the WTO’s power!
Take the spirit of Seattle to Cancun… Africa must say “No” to expanding the WTO’s power!