Some of the rich-country NGOs attack the World Trade Organization for being undemocratic. Global Exchange says:

The WTO Is Fundamentally Undemocratic: The policies of the WTO impact all aspects of society and the planet, but it is not a democratic, transparent institution. The WTO rules are written by and for corporations with inside access to the negotiations. For example, the US Trade Representative gets heavy input for negotiations from 17 "Industry Sector Advisory Committees." Citizen input by consumer, environmental, human rights and labor organizations is consistently ignored. Even simple requests for information are denied, and the proceedings are held in secret. Who elected this secret global government?

The reality is a little different. WTO negotiations work on a one-country, one-veto basis. As far as democracy goes, that's really quite good. There will be no agreement at the Hong Kong meeting in December unless every single WTO member agrees. Then each country will have to ratify the agreement in their parliaments back home. How exactly does Global Exchange want to make the WTO more democratic? Should there be simple majority voting, perhaps with China having 96 times as many votes as Cambodia because it has 96 times the population? I don't that that's the way forward and I am sure Global Exchange doesn't think that either.

In fact, the criticism being made by Global Exchange above should not be directed at the WTO at all. What they are actually saying is that the US government does not listen to them before going to the WTO to negotiate. Yet I do not actually think it true that "Citizen input by consumer, environmental, human rights and labor organizations is consistently ignored". More likely, it is just that the US Trade Representative realizes that what anti-globalization activists put forward would be damaging for the US and developing countries alike.