Treating public services as commodities for trade creates a fundamental misconception of public services. The Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), currently being negotiated in secret and outside of World Trade Organization rules, is a deliberate attempt to privilege the profits of the richest corporations and countries in the world over those who have the greatest needs.

This global forum will feature expert presentations and strategic discussions on the history and geopolitics of the TISA, the corporate interests behind its negotiation, why the negotiations are being held in secret and the implications for privatisation of public services and governments’ ability to regulate in the public interest. It will examine the effects on sectors such as health and social services, energy, municipal, finance, education and telecommunications.

For more information:

• Participation form
• Invitation
• Programme
• How to get to WMO
• Special report: The Really Good Friends of Transnational Corporations Agreement
• Special report: TISA versus Public Services
• OWINFS Petition - Organisations opposed to TISA
• OWINFS Brief - Why TISA must be opposed
• OWINFS - Towards an international secret agreement (TISA) on financial services
• IUF - The TISA threat to food and agriculture