UN

  • 10/12/1999

Report calls WTO 'nightmare' : A United Nations-appointed study team has labeled the World Trade Organization a "nightmare" for developing countries and suggested the body should be brought under the U.N.'s purview.In a report presented this week to the U.N.'s sub-commission on protection of human rights and made available on Friday, the team also dismisses the WTO's open trading rules as based "on grossly unfair and even prejudiced" assumptions. The document, a study of the effect of globalization on human rights, was written by two jurists, J. Oloka-Onyango of Uganda and Deepika Udagama of Sri Lanka.