Korean People's Action against Investment Treaties and the WTO(KoPA)

 

"Korean People's Action against Investment Treaties and the WTO"(KoPA) was launched on September 15, 1999. KoPA is a people's network on the MAI and the WTO which is composed of more than 40 Korean social, labor and citizen's movement organizations, such as Korean Confederation of Trade Unions(KCTU), Korean Farmers' League(KFL), People's Solidarity for Social Progress(PSSP), Green Korea United, People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy(PSPD), Korea Federation of Environmental Movements (KFEM), Seoul Women's Trade Union(SWTU), SARANGBANG for Human Rights, Korean House for International Solidarity(KHIS), and Policy and Information Center for International Solidarity (PICIS).

Its aim is to make people recognize clearly the negative effects of the WTO, and also stopping the on-going negotiations of Bilateral Investment Treaties(BIT) between Korea and U.S/Korea and Japan. KoPA focuses on four issues mainly ; firstly, opposition to the investment treaties and the WTO. secondly, control of transnational financial capital, thirdly, cancellation of foreign debt and redistribution to people, and the lastly stop the IMF SAPs. It also stress the importance of international solidarity in the development of its struggles.


We have campaigned against neo-liberalism and its core tools such as the IMF, Investment Treaties, and the WTO. During the WTO Ministerial conference in Seattle, KoPA organized demonstration against the WTO in Seoul and also participated in the international actions such as Seattle and Washinton D.C.


We have also held a few of workshops and public discussion meetings on the WTO New Round and Bilateral/Multilateral Investment Treaties, and published some books for the education of activists and citizens.


KoPA would like to build solidarity links with every country's people and social movements, and also to contribute to develop the international struggles to stop the WTO and financial market
dictatorship over the world people.

 

Contacts :

Address : 2nd F. 7-53, Kalweol-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Korea(140-150)
Tel :+82-2-778-4007,
Fax : +82-2-778-4006,
E-mail : kopa@jinbo.net,
Web : http://antiwto.jinbo.net