Democracy, Transparency and Progress in Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development ­Demands of the GLOBAL UNIONS 1 for the 5 th WTO-Ministerial Conference Erwin Schweisshelm, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung 1 The term„GLOBAL UNIONS“ comprises the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions(ICFTU), the Global Trade Union Federations of industrial and sectoral unions(formerly: International Trade Secretariats) and the Trade Union Advisory Committee at the OECD(TUAC-OECD). But the statement of the GLOBAL UNIONS is also endorsed by the Christian World Federation of Labour(WFL) and the European Trade Union Confederation. It is retrievable in several languages under www.icftu.org