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Trade and Development
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Links

Organizations Working Against CAFTA in the U.S.

Citizens Trade Campaign
http://www.citizenstrade.org/cafta.php

Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch
http://www.tradewatch.org/cafta

AFL-CIO
http://www.aflcio.org/issuespolitics/globaleconomy/caftamain.cfm

Alliance for Responsible Trade
http://www.art-us.org

Oxfam America
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/advocacy/art5545.html

Washington Office on Latin America
http://www.wola.org/economic/cafta.htm

An Activists’ Guide to Stopping CAFTA
http://www.stopcafta.org

Americans for Democratic Action (trade and elections focus)
http://www.adaction.org/regimechange2004.html

American Friends Service Committee
http://www.afsc.org/trade

Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador
http://www.cispes.org/english/Campaign_Against_CAFTA_FTAA/index.html

Enlaces America
http://www.enlacesamerica.org

Global Exchange
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/ftaa/cafta/index.html

Presbyterian Church USA
http://www.pcusa.org/trade/cafta.htm

Quest for Peace
http://www.quixote.org/cafta

Religious Task Force on Central America and Mexico
http://www.rtfcam.org/take_action/CAFTA.htm

United for a Fair Economy
http://www.faireconomy.org/activist/fair_trade/CAFTA/index.html

Reports and Papers of Special Interest

General

‘Free Trade or Fair Trade? Understanding CAFTA’ – An Educational Briefing Packet, Compiled by the Washington Office on Latin America, November 2003
http://www.wola.org/economic/cafta_briefing_packet_final_dec03.pdf

‘Why we say no to CAFTA’, Bloque Popular Centroamericano, Alliance for Responsible Trade, Hemispheric Social Alliance, March 2004
http://www.art-us.org/docs/cafta304.pdf

‘Central Americans Demonstrate Against CAFTA’, Alliance for Responsible Trade, April 2004
http://www.art-us.org/docs/CAaction.pdf

‘Make Trade Fair for Central America – Agriculture, Investment and Intellectual Property: Three Reasons to Say No to CAFTA,’ Oxfam America Briefing Note, September 2003
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/pdfs/cafta_090303.pdf

Agriculture

‘Potential Impact of the Central American Free Trade Agreement on the Agricultural Sector and Rural Poverty in Nicaragua,’ Adolfo Jose Acevedo Vogl, for the American Friends Service Committee, May 2003
http://www.afsc.org/trade/learn/cafta-nicaragua.pdf

Labor Rights

‘Labor Standards and the Central America Free Trade Agreement,’ compiled by Human Rights First (formerly known as ‘Lawyers Committee for Human Rights’), 29 August 2002
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/workers_rights/wr_traderights/CAFTA_191102.pdf

‘CAFTA’s Weak Labor Rights Protections: Why the Present Accord Should be Opposed,’ Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper, March 2004
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/03/09/usint8099.htm

Intellectual Property and Public Health

‘The Doha Declaration and the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health and the Contradictory Trend in Bilateral and Regional Free Trade Agreements,’ by Frederick M. Abbott for the Quaker United Nations Office, April 2004
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/workers_rights/wr-traderights/CAFTA_191102.pdf

‘Access to Medicines at Risk across the Globe: What to Watch for in Free Trade Agreements,’ Doctors Without Borders Briefing Note, May 2004
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/reports/2004/ftaa_05-2004.pdf

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