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DESCRIPTION:Debate on Global Trade Reform: EU and US NGO Advocacy for Socia
 l Justice Anti-globalization activists have been critiquing the Global Tra
 de Regime for over a decade\, arguing for greater consideration of environ
 mental issues\, human rights and sustainable development.&nbsp\; The stron
 gest advocacy has been targeted at the powers of the Global North: the US 
 and the EU.&nbsp\;&nbsp\; This&nbsp\; debate brings together NGO advocates
  from both sides of the Atlantic to discuss Fair Trade &amp\; Social Justi
 ce Advocacy today: what policies and institutions are being critiqued in t
 he US and the EU\, and at the international level?\; what are organization
 s\, coalitions and networks that are active in advocating changes to the s
 tatus quo global trade regime?\; how do the two NGO advocacy approaches co
 mpare and contrast\, and what may explain any differences? are greater adv
 ances being made in one system over the other?\; and\, to what extent are 
 advocates in the Global North working together and how might they do so mo
 re effectively?&nbsp\;&nbsp\;
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SUMMARY:MERC presents: Dave Tucker and Gawain Kripke
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Debate on Global Trade Reform: EU and US NGO A
 dvocacy for Social Justice Anti-globalization activists have been critiqui
 ng the Global Trade Regime for over a decade\, arguing for greater conside
 ration of environmental issues\, human rights and sustainable development.
 &nbsp\; The strongest advocacy has been targeted at the powers of the Glob
 al North: the US and the EU.&nbsp\;&nbsp\; This&nbsp\; debate brings toget
 her NGO advocates from both sides of the Atlantic to discuss Fair Trade &a
 mp\; Social Justice Advocacy today: what policies and institutions are bei
 ng critiqued in the US and the EU\, and at the international level?\; what
  are organizations\, coalitions and networks that are active in advocating
  changes to the status quo global trade regime?\; how do the two NGO advoc
 acy approaches compare and contrast\, and what may explain any differences
 ? are greater advances being made in one system over the other?\; and\, to
  what extent are advocates in the Global North working together and how mi
 ght they do so more effectively?&nbsp\;&nbsp\;
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