| CAFTA |
Central American Free Trade Argeement
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| Cairns Group |
Group of agricultural exporting nations lobbying for agricultural trade liberalization. It was formed in 1986 in Cairns, Australia just before
the beginning of the Uruguay Round. Current membership: Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Guatemala, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Paraguay, Philippines, South Africa, Thailand and Uruguay.
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| CBD |
Convention on Biological Diversity
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| CFR |
Council on Foreign Relations - Founded in 1921 and quickly became a major influence on U.S. foreign policy. Membership grew over the years to about 4,000. Its primary publication, Foreign Affairs, continues to be a most likely source of globalist theories. David Rockefeller is Honorary Chairman.
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| CGS |
CGS - Citizens for Global Solutions - is a US based lobby group which advocates global governance through world federation. The
organizations formerly known as the World Federalist Association and Campaign
for UN Reform morphed into one group, CGS, during 2004.
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| Chapter 11 |
Is a chapter in the North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that deals with
foreign direct investment. This chapter has become very controversial
because of a provision that established a member country system
of private arbitration for foreign investors to bring injury claims
against governments. These so called "investor-state" cases are
litigated in special international arbitration bodies, which are
closed to public participation, observation and input. Written to
protect foreign investors from governments seizing their property,
corporations have stretched NAFTA's Chapter 11 to undermine government
decisions made to protect public health, the environment and local
communities. [This should not be confused with Chapter 11 of the
US bankruptcy code.]
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| CICS |
Center for Strategic and International Studies
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| CITES |
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. A multilateral environmental agreement.
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| Codex Alimentarius |
FAO/WHO commission that deals with international standards on food safety.
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| Conditionality |
Countries must adopt specified
economic policies as a condition for receiving a loan from multilateral
financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank. One
example of conditionality is Structured Adjustment Programs which include stringent austerity measures that in
many cases have had devastating effects on struggling economies.
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| CSIS |
Center for Strategic and International Studies
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| CTD |
The WTO Committee on Trade and Development
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