UN study team hits out at WTO

A United Nations-appointed study team has labelled the World Trade Organisation a "nightmare" for developing countries and suggested…

A United Nations-appointed study team has labelled the World Trade Organisation a "nightmare" for developing countries and suggested the body should be brought under the UN's purview.

In a report presented this week to the UN's sub-commission on protection of human rights the team dismissed the WTO's open trading rules as based "on grossly unfair and even prejudiced assumptions".