Africa
|
Angola |
Week of events planned including meetings with minister |
All Week |
DR Congo |
Week of events including public debates, church services and TV broadcasts |
All Week |
Egypt |
Seminar on the effects of world trade agreements on textile industry, trade and workers |
9-10 April |
Gambia |
Seminars and workshops at the Africa Youth Conference Against Hunger |
All Week |
Ghana |
Week of events including sending chickens to Parliament |
All Week |
Kenya |
Day of prayer for trade justice |
10 April |
|
Vigil outside EU delegation offices |
14 April |
|
Events in Kenyan cities including public proccessions |
All Week |
|
Events in Western Kenya including unfair football |
All Week |
Lesotho |
Education events to mobilise communities |
All Week |
Mozambique |
Lectures, seminars and debates |
All Week |
Nigeria |
Signing of petition against trade injustice |
10 April |
|
Public Lectures and radio talks |
All Week |
|
Solidarity march and press conference |
17 April |
Senegal |
Week of events including parliamentary meetings and trade justice caravans and concert |
All Week |
Sierra Leone |
Lobbying events, public forums and report launch |
All Week |
South Africa |
Ecumenical service and mass march against liberalisation in the clothing industry in Cape Town |
14 April |
|
Events in KwaZulu Natal including sending shoes to ministers |
All Week |
|
Ecumenical service |
10 April |
Uganda |
Week of events including workshops and street theatre |
All Week |
Zambia |
Million signature cotton campaign |
All Week |
|
Ecumenical church services |
10 April |
|
Week of events including marches against poverty |
All Week |
Zimbabwe |
Ecumenical services and day of prayer |
10 April |
|
Public Meetings about Stop EPAs Campaign |
11-14 April |
|
National Conference and march for trade justice |
13-14 April |
|
Presentation of Petitions |
15 April |
Americas
|
Bolivia |
Week of events in La Paz |
All Week |
|
Student conference against FTAA |
9 April |
|
Street theatre in El Alto |
12-14 April |
|
Cultural fair in Santa Cruz |
13 April |
Brazil |
Postcard campaign - 'Fale por um Comércio Justo' |
All Week |
|
Seminar: ‘Trade agreements and Social movements: Brazil’s commitments in relation to international trade’ |
12-13 April |
|
Week of events including mass rallies and MST march |
All Week |
|
Events around the International Day of Struggle for Land |
17 April |
Canada |
Lobbying event and public events across Canada |
All Week |
|
Trading away Mexico: NAFTA tightens its grip |
13 April |
|
Oxfam’s Global Week of Action launch party |
10 April |
Chile |
Church services |
14 April |
|
Alternative Fair - 'We Denounce' |
11-14 April |
Colombia |
Peace vigil |
All Week |
|
National march |
14 April |
|
Seminars and nine days of peace |
All Week |
Costa Rica |
Forum of Central American parliamentarians against CAFTA |
15 April |
|
Social summit against CAFTA |
14 April |
Cuba |
Conference on ALCA and neo-liberalism |
13 April |
|
Religious services in Havana |
13 April |
|
Seminar: 'Present Day Challenges for the Church' |
16 April |
Ecuador |
YMCA-ACJ assembly and workshop |
9 April |
|
Seminar: 'The Free Trade Agreement and Human Rights' |
14-15 April |
El Salvador |
Week of events planned including music festivals and nation march |
All Week |
Guatemala |
Launch of reports on human rights situation |
11 April |
Haiti |
Concert and unfair basketball match |
10 April |
Honduras |
Forum about the impact of neoliberalism on women |
All Week |
|
Week of events including producers fair and march against CAFTA |
13-16 April |
Mexico |
A space for reflection, analysis and debate |
13 April |
|
Week of action including farmers march |
All Week |
Nicaragua |
Ecumenical service across the country |
10 April |
|
Producers fair and music festival |
11-14 April |
|
Conference: Trade Justice from a theological perspective |
11-13 April |
|
Creole food exhibition and fair |
11 April |
Paraguay |
Week of events including seminars, workshops and radio programmes |
All Week |
Peru |
Seminar on the impacts of trade liberalisation |
7-8 April |
|
Photography exhibition and display of agricultural products |
All Week |
|
Conference on fair trade |
7-8 April |
|
Presentation of new book on intellectual property |
14 April |
|
Regional gathering of farmers |
9-10 April |
|
Week of events in San Marcos |
11-15 April |
USA |
Farmers tour |
All Week |
|
FairTrade panel |
All Week |
|
Protest at the IMF/World Bank spring meetings |
15-17 April |
|
Oxfam America Global Week of Action events |
All Week |
|
Action to stop JPMorgan Chase's investments of mass destruction |
12 April |
|
Local events throughout the week |
All Week |
|
Conference: 'Crossing the Borders of Trade' |
16 April |
|
Conference: 'A Better World is Possible' |
8-9 April |
|
CAFTA national call-in day |
13 April |
Asia & Pacific
|
Australia |
Postcard campaign, campaign activities and report launch |
12 April |
|
Book launch and network meetings |
All Week |
|
Fair trade coffee giveaway |
12 April |
Bangladesh |
Press Conference and mass rally to start the week |
9-10 April |
|
Series of events during the week including trade seminars, concerts and film |
All Week |
|
Mass rally to end the week |
16 April |
|
Local events in over 30 districts focusing on the privatisation of services |
All Week |
|
Global aggression on service sector: GATS perspective - A national dialogue on GATS |
11 April |
Hong Kong |
Regional conference on GATS |
11-12 April |
|
Container roadshow on unfair agricultural trade |
17 April |
India |
National and state level mass rallies plus signature campaign to Prime Minister and e-mail campaign to IMF,World Bank and WTO |
All Week |
Indonesia |
Week of events including public forum on rice |
All Week |
Lebanon |
Fair trade days of action and media week |
11-16 April |
New Zealand |
Aotearoa White Band campaign - If not us, then who? If not now, then when? |
11 April |
Pakistan |
Rally of small farmers and press conference |
14-15 April |
Philippines |
National Peasants-NGOs-Legislators Forum on Food Sovereignty |
13 April |
|
General assembly |
10 April |
|
MeryendahanII - Is green and value-adding mining possible? |
April |
|
Grain march to Mendiola (in front of the Presidential Palace) |
15 April |
|
Launch of Stop the New Round campaign towards Hong Kong |
15 April |
|
Week of events on essential services and debt |
All Week |
|
Week of events planned in Cebu City |
All Week |
|
Book and CD launch |
15 April |
Sri Lanka |
Week of events on Post-Tsunami rebuilding, privatisation and liberalisation - focusing on donor conditionality |
All Week |
Europe
|
Austria |
Information campaign - MDGs 2005 |
All Week |
Andorra |
Day of activitiees including 'unfair' basketball match |
10 April |
Brussels |
Funeral procession to DG Trade |
14 April |
|
Sign-on petition letter to EU Commission |
All Week |
|
Postcard action to Commissioner Mandelson |
All Week |
Denmark |
Events planned during the week including unfair football match and concert |
All Week |
France |
For Trade Justice - lets make a market together! |
16-17 April |
|
Exhibition and seminars in the European Parliament |
12-13 April |
Finland |
Launch of national MDG campaign |
16 April |
|
The Social forum in Finland |
9-10 April |
|
Photo competition |
All Week |
|
Vote for trade justice |
All Week |
Germany |
Week of events, opening in Bonn and closing in Berlin |
All Week |
Netherlands |
Signature campaign and mass event in the Hague |
16 April |
|
Letter writing campaign
|
All Week |
|
Trade tribunal |
All Week |
Ireland |
Week of events planned including Lotto Lunch |
All Week |
Italy |
Week of events opening in Florence and spreading out to 40 Italian cities |
All Week |
Norway |
Sugar trade tribunal |
14 April |
|
Open meetings and final demonstration in Oslo |
16 April |
Russia |
Round table: 'World trade system. Freedom? Justice? Democracy?' |
15 April |
Spain |
Week of events including free giant paella meal |
All Week |
Sweden |
Day of activities planned in Stockholm |
16 April |
|
Letter-writing campaign |
All Week |
|
Seminar and unfair games |
13-16 April |
|
Panel discussion: Can barriers to trade in the South be positive for development? |
14 April |
Switzerland |
Local events throught the country |
All Week |
|
Lausanne signs up to Trade Justice! |
16 April |
|
Petitioning the WTO |
13 April |
|
Discussion on agricultural poltics and the food industry |
11 April |
United Kingdom |
Night protest to ‘wake up the government’ |
15-16 April |
|
Local events throughout the week |
All Week |
|
Vote for trade justice |
All Week |
