During the recent World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial in Geneva (30 November to 2 December 2009), protesters put the spotlight on some of the big businesses in town. With little going on inside the ministerial, they organised daily guided tours to banks, agricultural and energy traders to show that there's more to Geneva than international organisations, humanitarianism and luxury watches – and more to trade negotiations than conflicts between the US and India. Because it is companies that benefit and quite often also co-write global trade rules. And many of them can be found in Geneva.
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