Catching up with the Slowest: NGO Accreditation at the WTO
"The Geneva-based, trade-related NGO communities regularly camp out at the WTO," writes Mark Halle. "They wander the dark halls of the Secretariat as if they were fitting them for curtains. They are on a first-name basis with a high proportion of WTO staff. And yet, every time we come to WTO Headquarters we suffer the indignity of being directed to the service entrance."
This article originally appeared in Bridges Monthly, a publication of tne International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development.
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