Demands for the G8 Summit in Genoa

<Full Employment Measure>

1. It is crucial to have economic recovery in Japan, which is the second largest economic power in the world and has a great influence on the world economy in order to reestablish well-balanced growth in the world economy. The Japanese government should base its economic policies on the building of a "welfare-oriented economic society" that has measures to ease fears and stabilize living standards, by things such as stabilizing and creating employment and establishing a safe and secure system of social security. The government also ought to aim to achieve a stable growth rate of 2 to 3% in real terms and get back on track with a full employment that is based on "humane labor."

<Agenda for New Development>

2. The agenda for new development should focus on those living in poverty, the unemployed, and people living under difficulties in the drastically increasing "informal sector"(consisting of a very small scale of economic activities in the urban areas of many developing nations). G8 and the OECD nations should take concrete steps toward achieving quantitative development goals, goals set to relieve poverty and reduce world poverty by 50% by the year 2015.

3. The WTO should establish a public organization that will work on issues of trade and core labor standards while closely cooperating with the ILO.

4. Let multinational enterprises concretely respect core labor standards and the rights of workers through effective regulations on the global activities of those multinational enterprises. Governments should legislate transparent and effective procedures on a national level for the implementation of OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises in cooperation with trade unions and management.

<Creation of an Association for Sustainable Development>

5. Make "Sustainable Development" a central topic at the United Nation's Conference on Development and the Environment ("Earth Summit") which will be held in South Africa in 2002, 10 years after the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit.

6. The US/Bush administration has stated that it will not join the Kyoto Protocol despite the fact that implementation of the Kyoto Protocol is indispensable to prevent global warming. The Japanese government should ratify the Protocol as soon as possible and strongly press the American government also to return to the Protocol.

<Reform on Governing Global Economy>

7. Global market needs new rules to achieve the governing of an effective, democratic and harmonious economy. Negotiations on the social aspects on globalization far exceed the limits of any one international organization. G8 countries should call for the establishment of an international institution to research the social aspects of global economic integration. This institution should include the official membership of the IMF, the World Bank, UNCTAD, OECD, the WTO, and the ILO and it should be a framework in which labor union representatives also participate.