Global Trade Watch (GTW) was founded by Lori Wallach in 1995 as a division of the U.S. -based non-governmental organization (NGO) Public Citizen that monitors the World Trade Organization (WTO) and other trade agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).

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  • Global Trade Watch (GTW) was founded by Lori Wallach in 1995 as a division of the U.S. -based non-governmental organization (NGO) Public Citizen that monitors the World Trade Organization (WTO) and other trade agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Like Public Citizen in general, GTW advocates for a greater public role in international, federal, state and local policy-making, and for a different set of policies and institutions that govern the current model of globalization, according to its website, Global Trade Watch was established to promote government and corporate accountability in the globalization and trade arena. The GTW is among the few organizations focused full time on issues of globalization. The work of the GTW makes the measurable outcomes of globalization accessible to the public, press, and policy makers, but places an emphasis on the fact that the model can and must be changed or replaced if the results are not acceptable. They design international campaign which focus on the current mechanism of globalization, such as WTO, NAFTA, the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), and others. In focusing on these mechanism they ensure that they do not ignore the ways in which these mechanism were designed and implemented. The GTW conducts research, publishes educational materials, educates the public through a grassroots program, maintains relations with press and policy makers, and coordinates with an array of domestic and international allies. They are ultimately working to build a diverse nationwide grassroots coalition. Its director and founder, trade lawyer and activist Lori Wallach, has been compared to "Ralph Nader with a sense of humor" in a Wall Street Journal profile, dubbed "the Trade Debate's Guerrilla Warrior" by the National Journal,, the "Madame Defarge of Seattle" by the Institute for International Economics and "a key player in Washington debates on trade policy" by The Nation. Senior staff at GTW in addition to Wallach are listed as including Mary Bottari as Harmonization Project Director; David Edeli as Field Director; Bill Holland as Deputy Director; and Todd Tucker as Research Director. The U.S. -based GTW is different than Global Trade Watch (Australia), an organization of the same name but with no formal affiliation.
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  • Global Trade Watch (GTW) was founded by Lori Wallach in 1995 as a division of the U.S. -based non-governmental organization (NGO) Public Citizen that monitors the World Trade Organization (WTO) and other trade agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).
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