ZAGREB/NEW YORK, April 26 (Hina) - Director of the women's network of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) for Eastern and Central Europe, Jasna Petrovic, warned the UN Commission for Sustainable Development
that joining the World Trade Organisation should not be considered a "passport into the land of the rich". She stressed the need for introducing greater control over the business of multi-national companies. As the only representative of unions from Central and Eastern Europe, Petrovic informed participants of the Commission session about the problems facing transitional countries, particularly those which underwent war, the ICFTU Office in Zagreb said in a statement Wednesday. As the session also focused on the issue of approaching food and nutrition quality, Petrovic assessed that multi-national companies were manipulating with information with the aim of greater profit, a
ZAGREB/NEW YORK, April 26 (Hina) - Director of the women's network
of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) for
Eastern and Central Europe, Jasna Petrovic, warned the UN
Commission for Sustainable Development that joining the World
Trade Organisation should not be considered a "passport into the
land of the rich". She stressed the need for introducing greater
control over the business of multi-national companies.
As the only representative of unions from Central and Eastern
Europe, Petrovic informed participants of the Commission session
about the problems facing transitional countries, particularly
those which underwent war, the ICFTU Office in Zagreb said in a
statement Wednesday.
As the session also focused on the issue of approaching food and
nutrition quality, Petrovic assessed that multi-national
companies were manipulating with information with the aim of
greater profit, and used food as a weapon of death, which is
confirmed by data that almost half a million people per year died
from pesticides and hundreds thousands from genetically
manipulated or polluted food.
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