Globalization: The WTO is Killing People

More than 500 Bangladeshi workers have been killed in the factory fire since 2006, according to Clean Clothes Campaign, the advocate for anti-sweat campaign advocate in Amsterdam. Experts say that if the factory takes correct precautions, many fires can easily be avoided. Many factories are located in a narrow community, fire escape is too small, and we have widely denied safety measures. The industry employs over 3 million workers in Bangladesh, most of them women. Activists say that global clothing brands such as Tommy Hilfiger and Gap and what Walmart sells are responsible for the working conditions of the factory producing clothing in Bangladesh. "From an article

Globalization has become a major public issue in the past decade. Most of the recent controversy focuses on the World Trade Organization (WTO). Established in 1994, the WTO has the power to oversee international trade, manage free trade agreements, and resolve trade disputes among Member States, on behalf of the General Treaty on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). However, under the WTO, power is greatly expanding into service trade and products including intellectual property protection. And the intellectual property right is interpreted as including the genetic code of the creature. In addition, the authority of the World Trade Organization for agricultural trade far exceeds the authority under GATT. In forming the WTO, the implicit (if not clear) goal is to reduce all trade restrictions and ultimately eliminate it to achieve a single global free market.

These rights exist in various forms before the process of unifying the world's intellectual property protection process through WTO. Patents, copyrights, and trademarks guarantee the protection of intellectual property. But as time goes by, people are strongly aware of the need to unify the intellectual property mechanisms around the world. Other countries will use roughly different parameters and definitions to determine the nature and enforcement of these rights. The intellectual property mechanism that is still evolving is helping protect and improve some of the objectives of modern technological innovation and design process.