World Trade Organization

According to the WTO website, the WTO

is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world's trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The goal is to help producers of goods and services, exporters, and importers conduct their business (www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/whatis_e.htm).

The WTO was established in January of 1995 as a result of its creation during the Uruguay Round Negotiations and is located in Geneva, Switzerland. The Uruguay Round Negotiations was a series of trade treaty talks that took place between 1986-1994 in Uruguay, a country in Sout

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o patent a substance that could be utilized for food, medicine or drug was abolished after the US took India through a WTO tribunal. As soon as the tribunal was completed, a company named WR Grace came in and patented a byproduct of the NEEM tree as a natural bio-pesticide, and thus claim exclusive rights to the tree, used in India for centuries as a medicinal, birth control and pesticidal product. It is this abuse - a powerful rich country who knows the ropes threatening a smaller, poorer nation practice that according to Ralph Nader allowing rich adversaries to object to the delegations of poor countries undermines poor countries' meaningful participation in the WTO - and makes threats of WTO challenges enormously powerful tools to forestall the adoption of public health safeguards by poor countries that need them the most (Wallach & Sforza, 1999). ARGUMENT QUESTIONING EFFECTIVENESS OF PROTESTS: Whether or not the protests were successful, depends on who you ask. If you ask the city of Seattle, they were successful in violence, looting and destruction - a heavy price for the privilege of hosting the World Trade Summit. The summit itself was considered a failure in that they were unable to conduct business as planned due
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