Mar 9, 2008 | Speeches
The negotiations leading up to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial in Hong Kong are apparently getting nowhere. The draft ministerial reports on the state of negotiations in agriculture, non-agricultural market access, and services are out, and while all...
Mar 9, 2008 | Speeches
It is now 25 years since the beginning of the great wave of democratisation that swept away dictatorships from Latin America to Southeast Asia. Yet there is everywhere a palpable sense of disappointment that the new electoral democratic regimes have fallen far short...
Mar 9, 2008 | Speeches
I would like to thank the organizers of this event, particularly my co-awardee of the Right Livelihood Award for 2003, Nicky Perlas, for inviting me to speak at this event. Nicky’s optimism, as many of you know, is infectious, and I do hope all of us will be...
Mar 9, 2008 | Speeches
It is certainly a step forward that there is a growing consensus among us that development, peace-building, and conflict prevention must be undertaken simultaneously if initiatives at peace and security are to take hold and prosper. This is, however, a consensus...
Mar 9, 2008 | Speeches
Honorable members of the Jury of Conscience and members of the Panel of Advocates: My brief here today is to outline and detail the specific charges against the "Coalition of the Willing" assembled by the United States government to support its aggression in...