globalization, global justice

Background

• What is globalization? A brief glossary of international trade agreements and terms.
• More "globalization alphabet soup"
• And what is GATS? Women Stop GATS!
• Women and globalization
• Women and global debt
• Global corporate crime: Bhopal 20 years later -- still working and waiting for justice
  
  Resources on Cotton:
  Cultivating Poverty The impact of US cotton subsidies on Africa Oxfam International Paper No. 30, Sept. 2002. (Link to summary and pdf download.)
  " American cotton subsidies are destroying livelihoods in Africa and other developing regions. By encouraging over-production and export dumping, these subsidies are driving down world prices – now at their lowest levels since the Great Depression. While America’s cotton barons get rich on government transfers, African farmers suffer the consequences."
  The Cotton Campaign: A report by Jean Grossholtz on the role of cotton in a globalized world (7 pages, pdf download)
• Education
• Poverty
  

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