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S2B - Seattle to Brussels Network

The Seattle to Brussels (S2B) Network is a pan-European NGO network campaigning to promote a sustainable, democratic and accountable system of trade that benefits all. Our network includes development, environment, human rights, women’s and farmers organisations as well as research institutes. The S2B network was formed in the aftermath of the WTO's 1999 Seattle Ministerial to challenge the corporate-driven agenda of the European Union and other European governments for continued global trade and investment liberalisation. It has also developed as a response to the increasing need for European coordination among NGOs.

Strategic Objectives of the S2B network are to:

- increasingly engage in co-ordinated campaign activities with broad participation that target: corporate lobby groups/TNCs, EU and national institutions, including parliaments and the media;
- ensure that the network activities are co-ordinated with those of other global networks and reflect the concerns of Southern groups,
- develop a profile and visibility by expanding the capacity of the network to engage in diverse activities including grassroots campaigning, education and outreach, advocacy, research, monitoring, media work and mass mobilisation,
- and maintain transparent and democratic ways of working together.

Active groups in the Network are all supporters of the 'Our World Is Not For Sale: WTO Shrink or Sink' Statement (http://www.ourworldisnotforsale.org) and of Open letters to European Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy. In these statements groups demand to roll back the power and authority of the WTO and to develop a sustainable, socially and democratically accountable trade system.

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