WATER ABLAZE - Patagonia Sin Represas

SWAMP Sustainable Water Area Management Programme
TABD Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue
Influential round table; coordinates the business interests of the USA and EU;
strong neoliberal agenda.
TAURUS Target Adaptive Unitary and Dispenser Robotic
Ubiquity System U.S. cruise missile with depleted-uranium warhead;
a “bunker buster; can also be conventionally armed.
TEC Transatlantic Economic Council
TEN Transeuropäische Verkehrs-, Energie- und
Telekommunikationsnetze
(Transeuropean Transport, Energy and Telecommunications Network)
TI Transparency International
NGO, involved in fighting corruption worldwide.
TJM Trade Justice Movement
NGO; fast-growing group of organisations, including trade unions, aid agencies, environmental
and human rights campaigns, fairtrade organisations, faith and consumer groups; supported
by more than 80 member organisations; over nine million members worldwide; campaigns
for trade justice, not “free” trade, with the rules weighted to benefit poor people and the
environment.
TNC Trans-National Corporation/Company
TNI Transnational Institute
International network of activist-scholars committed to critical analyses of global problems;
provides intellectual support to those movements endeavouring to steer the world in the
direction of democracy, equity and sustainability.
TRIMs Trade-Related Investment Measures
Part of the WTO rules.
TRIPS Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
Agreement governing rights such as international patents, copyright, trade marks etc.
TWN Third World Network
Promotes the fair distribution of resources, sustainability, the provision of essential public
services and the defence of human rights; actively opposes MAI, GATS, TRIPS, WTO and other
similar agreements and institutions; founded by Martin Khor, Malaysia.
TZ Technische Zusammenarbeit
German term for “Technical Cooperation“.
UBA Umweltbundesamt
(German Federal Environmental Agency)
UN United Nations
(see: UN Organisations, Programmes, Funds, Special Agencies and Offices, page 335)
UNASUL União de Nações Sul-Americanas
(Union of South American Nations)
UNASUR Unión de Naciones Suramericanas
(Union of South American Nations)
UNDP Uganda National Development Plan
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