Health
WTO Agreements and Public Health, a joint WHO/WTO report, 2002.
Revision of the International Health Regulations, Public Health and Trade, Comparing the role of three international organisations, WHO Wkly Epidem. Rec., No. 25, 1999, pp. 193-201.
"Global trade and health: key linkages and future challenges" by D. Bettcher et al, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 78 (4), 2000.
"World Trade Organization: World Trade and Population Health" by Ron Labonte, IUHPE, and "The Amended Brief to the Genoa Non-Governmental Initiative on International Governance and World Trade Organization (WTO) Reform" are available at http://www.iuhpe.nyu.edu/advocacy.html.
"The Wrong Model, GATS, trade liberalisation and children’s right to health", a briefing report by John Hilary, Save the Children, UK.
"Trade, public health, and food" by Tim Lang in International Co-operation and Health, edited by Martin McKee et al, Oxford University Press.
"Globalization and health", brochure produced by Health Matters magazine in association with Medact. (www.healthmatters.org.uk)
"World Trade Organisation: Implications for Health Policy", Wemos, Physicians for Social Responsibility (Finland), European Public Health Alliance, MedAct, 2000.
"Does trade foster better health globally?", European Public Health Update, January-February 2000, No. 49.
Environment
"Sale of the century? The World Trade Organisation’s fourth ministerial", Friends of the Earth International, November 2001.
"Towards coherent environmental and economic governance", World Wide Fund for Nature and Center for International Environmental Law, October 2001.
"Environment and trade, a handbook" published by the United Nations Development Programme and International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2000.
"Time to replace globalisation", A Green localist manifesto for the World Trade Organisation ministerial meeting, Caroline Lucas MEP and Colin Hines, The Greens/European Free Alliance in the European Parliament.
Development
"World Trade Organization: Shrink it or sink it", New Internationalist, No. 334, May 2001 (www.newint.org).
"Out of service: The development dangers of the General Agreement on Trade in Services", World Development Movement, March 2002, www.wdm.org.uk.
"Rigged Rules and Double Standards, trade, globalisation and the fight against poverty", Oxfam, www.maketradefair.org
Networks
ETN aims to provide a forum for European NGOs working on trade to exchange information and to co-ordinate advocacy and campaigns on development, social, environment, human rights and other concerns relating to trade. Meeting three to four times a year in Brussels, it also has a listserve (activate cookies).
Seattle to Brussels Network includes Friends of the Earth Europe, Oxfam International, World Development Movement and others.
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development has a useful website including a link to the Bridges Weekly Trade Digest, which covers different aspects of trade and health, e.g. "TRIPS, Biological Resources and Public Health".
Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech) includes a section on healthcare technology and intellectual property, which is particularly useful in relation to the TRIPS Agreement. Jamie Love of CPTech also has his own website at www.cptech.org/jamie, which introduces his discussions list ip-health on access to medicines.
GATSwatch provides news and critical information on the current WTO negotiations on the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and the global campaign to Stop the GATS Attack.
