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Marketplace Features
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Discussion:
There's one item missing from the WTO's agenda: people who flow across borders searching for better jobs. Why do you think this should/should not be included? And, what else has been left off the WTO agenda?
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Online resources:
World Trade Organization: www.wto.org
WTO conference in Cancun main page: www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/
Recently aired:
 9/10: Commentary - Give poor nation farmers a chance
9/10: WTO talks: EU/U.S. negotiators push for controls on geographic brands
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During the World Trade Organization’s meeting in Cancun that begins Sept. 10, discussions will revolve around agriculture subsidies, market access for non-farm goods, intellectual property rights and electronic commerce. Although the WTO is concerned with the free flow of goods from one country to another, it says nothing about people who flow to other places in search of better economic opportunities. According to the UN, the number of people who live in a country other than where they were born has doubled since 1975. This three-part Morning Report series looks at what's missing from the agenda: people.
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Series Program Segments
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Wednesday, September 10
Commentator Saskia Sassen says the WTO does have an immigration policy: It's for professionals. But it could use one for other types of workers, like nurses, nannies and farm workers.
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Thursday, September 11
Many people in industrial nations employ foreign workers for domestic labor, like childcare and household chores -- jobs traditionally done by women. For this reason, more women are migrating than men. Marketplace's Julie Small investigates how new patterns of migration, mostly of care workers, affect family relationships.
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Web resources
www.impactofilms.com: Web site for the documentary film "Maid in America"
www-rcf.usc.edu: Bio of author Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and a link to her book "Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence"
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Friday, September 12
Nearly one million people are trafficked -- that is, sold -- across international borders each year. Andrew Parella looks at the issue through the eyes of a former Sudanese slave and explores U.S. efforts to fight the problem of slave trade.
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Web resources
Info. on the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and the "2003 Trafficking in Persons Report," on the U.S. Department of State Web site: www.state.gov/g/tip/.
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