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Greenpeace banner on the Rainbow Warrior during the WTO's 4th Ministerial Conference in Doha, Qatar.

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Genetically engineered food by Bush & Co. E-card designed by Mark Fiore.

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Greenpeace volunteers dressed as Uncle Sam dump GE maize on other volunteers representing consumers in straitjackets, suffocating their demand for the right to say no GE food.

Encourage sustainable trade

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) promotes free trade for the gain of private interests, over and above our health and the environment. It is fatally flawed and is moving the world in the wrong direction - away from peace, security and sustainability. By stalling on issues that are crucial to poorer countries, the WTO faces a crisis of legitimacy.

• The WTO is secretive, non-transparent and undemocratic. Meetings are by invitation only, are hidden from public view and are closed to direct public input.
• The WTO puts trade on the highest pedestal - before our health and the environment.
• This is because the WTO is driven by narrow corporate interests, like genetic engineering companies and the agri-business.
• These companies are behind the US attempt to use the WTO as a tool to force feed the world genetically engineered (GE) food.
• The WTO threatens crucial environmental agreements,like the first legally binding global agreement that allows countriesto reject genetically modified organisms, the Biosafety Protocol.
• So-called "free" trade is speeding up the use of natural resources such as water, forests, fisheries, and minerals, much faster than they can be regenerated.
• In essence, the WTO is a tool of rich and powerful countries. Poorer countries are losing out to the interests of the industrialised world.

Greenpeace opposes the current form of globalisation that is increasing corporate power.

We demand that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) adopts a policy oftrade that truly works for all and that preserves and restores theenvironment.

We support global environmental standards. Trade must not takepriority. Governments must work to achieve sustainable development.This means integrating three things: environmental, social and economicpriorities.

We campaign to bring the concerns of citizens all over the world to the decision-makers at the WTO.

We are calling on consumers to join us and demand a GE free world.