https://www.bilaterals.org/ en SPIP - www.spip.net https://www.bilaterals.org/?alert-to-the-malagasy-population https://www.bilaterals.org/?alert-to-the-malagasy-population 2026-06-09 13:00:00 text/html en [] ESA Madagascar EU from the movements EPAs agriculture | farmers | food intellectual property 09-Jun-2026 <p>The EPA would have a negative and potentially devastating impact on populations' right to food, as well as on peasant producers' right to use, select, protect and exchange seeds of their choice.</p> https://www.bilaterals.org/?ngo-urges-dti-to-omit-plant https://www.bilaterals.org/?ngo-urges-dti-to-omit-plant 2026-05-22 14:11:29 text/html en [] intellectual property agriculture | farmers | food EU Philippines 22-May-2026 <p>A nongovernmental organization is urging the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to exclude a provision on protecting new plant varieties in the ongoing trade negotiations between the European Union and the Philippines.</p> https://www.bilaterals.org/?what-the-bangladesh-japan-trade https://www.bilaterals.org/?what-the-bangladesh-japan-trade 2026-05-07 06:19:36 text/html en [] Bangladesh Japan agriculture | farmers | food biodiversity | biopiracy intellectual property 07-May-2026 <p>The signing of the Bangladesh-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) at the end of the interim government's tenure has sparked much debate, with concerns that this agreement could put the country's sovereignty, agriculture and food systems, traditional knowledge, economy, and intellectual property rights at risk.</p> https://www.bilaterals.org/?the-ip-laws-that-stop https://www.bilaterals.org/?the-ip-laws-that-stop 2026-04-29 13:05:16 text/html en [] from the movements intellectual property digital economy | e-commerce US 29-Apr-2026 <p>Laws included in trade deals protect US companies' rent extraction schemes and stop us from fixing or improving our own devices — from phones and tractors to insulin pumps. Repealing them will save billions and hit Trump's donor class.</p> https://www.bilaterals.org/?uk-swiss-trade-deal-held-up-over https://www.bilaterals.org/?uk-swiss-trade-deal-held-up-over 2026-03-26 14:54:39 text/html en [] intellectual property health UK Switzerland 26-Mar-2026 <p>A pharma row between Switzerland and the U.K. risks derailing trade talks, with British officials concerned Swiss demands could push up NHS bills.</p> https://www.bilaterals.org/?zimbabwe-s-seed-sovereignty-is https://www.bilaterals.org/?zimbabwe-s-seed-sovereignty-is 2026-03-12 12:47:53 text/html en [] agriculture | farmers | food intellectual property Zimbabwe 12-Mar-2026 <p>Developing nations are compelled to adopt legal frameworks favoring multinational seed companies, often through trade agreements and regional protocols that serve imperialist interests and control over the economies of the Global South.</p> https://www.bilaterals.org/?us-reciprocal-tariffs-is-illegal https://www.bilaterals.org/?us-reciprocal-tariffs-is-illegal 2026-03-12 05:27:10 text/html en [] US Indonesia agriculture | farmers | food actions | resistance from the movements fisheries | fisherfolk digital economy | e-commerce intellectual property medicines 12-Mar-2026 <p>The Civil Society Coalition for Economic Justice (Koalisi MKE) urges President Prabowo Subianto not to ratify the reciprocal trade agreement (ART) between Indonesia and the United States (US) signed on February 19, 2026. The 19% tariff reduction obtained by Indonesia in this agreement is not commensurate with the surrender of the country's sovereignty to US interests.</p> https://www.bilaterals.org/?dnp-and-msf-welcome-the-removal-of https://www.bilaterals.org/?dnp-and-msf-welcome-the-removal-of 2026-03-06 06:38:43 text/html en [] India EU intellectual property medicines 06-Mar-2026 <p>Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+) and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) notes positively that the intellectual Property (IP) chapter of this trade deal largely preserves India's public health safeguards and does not include any harmful provisions that go beyond the World Trade Organization's TRIPS agreement, such as data exclusivity or patent term extensions.</p> https://www.bilaterals.org/?trump-s-deal-with-argentina-marks https://www.bilaterals.org/?trump-s-deal-with-argentina-marks 2026-03-03 16:12:51 text/html en [] from the movements intellectual property health medicines US Argentina 03-Mar-2026 <p>The US-Argentina deal represents a new low in using US trade policy to bully countries into adopting intellectual property rules that expand Big Pharma's monopoly power at the expense of access to affordable medicines.</p> https://www.bilaterals.org/?india-eu-fta-what-the-deal-means https://www.bilaterals.org/?india-eu-fta-what-the-deal-means 2026-03-02 13:43:58 text/html en [] EU India digital economy | e-commerce intellectual property 02-Mar-2026 <p>The deal points to creating a secure digital trade environment by promoting paperless transactions and cyber-security .</p> https://www.bilaterals.org/?trump-milei-pact-piles-pressure-on https://www.bilaterals.org/?trump-milei-pact-piles-pressure-on 2026-02-17 14:15:20 text/html en [] agriculture | farmers | food intellectual property EU Mercosur US 17-Feb-2026 <p>A new US-Argentina deal could undermine protections for European food names that are included in the trade agreement with Latin America.</p> https://www.bilaterals.org/?public-health-group-demands https://www.bilaterals.org/?public-health-group-demands 2026-01-28 14:56:10 text/html en [] intellectual property health medicines EU India 28-Jan-2026 <p>The Working Group points out that the European Commission's press release states the agreement provides for a high level of protection and enforcement of Intellectual Property rights, including copyright, trademarks, designs, trade secrets and plant variety rights.</p> https://www.bilaterals.org/?open-letter-comment-on-the-sia-for https://www.bilaterals.org/?open-letter-comment-on-the-sia-for 2026-01-26 10:56:29 text/html en [] Thailand EU actions | resistance agriculture | farmers | food environment intellectual property from the movements 26-Jan-2026 <p>Thai civil society organizations submitted an open letter on 23 January 2026, provides critical feedback on the Draft Inception Report of the Trade Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) for the proposed EU–Thailand Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The letter highlights key concerns regarding the adequacy and balance of the SIA's current scope and methodology.</p> https://www.bilaterals.org/?trade-agreements-risk-undermining https://www.bilaterals.org/?trade-agreements-risk-undermining 2025-12-17 13:40:52 text/html en [] digital economy | e-commerce intellectual property EU US 17-Dec-2025 <p>The report details how digital trade rules, such as so-called “source code protection” provisions threaten to override ambitious right to repair laws now advancing in both the United States and European Union.</p> https://www.bilaterals.org/?egypt-manages-to-reach-african https://www.bilaterals.org/?egypt-manages-to-reach-african 2025-10-31 11:57:03 text/html en [] Egypt intellectual property AfCFTA 31-Oct-2025 <p>Adoption of eight annexes to the Intellectual Property Protocol in preparation for their submission to the upcoming African Union Summit.</p> https://www.bilaterals.org/?trade-deals-weaponised-to-enforce https://www.bilaterals.org/?trade-deals-weaponised-to-enforce 2025-10-17 13:35:35 text/html en [] intellectual property agriculture | farmers | food UAE 17-Oct-2025 <p>Countries in the global South being pressured through trade agreements to adopt restrictive UPOV seed laws, threatening farmers' rights and food sovereignty.</p> https://www.bilaterals.org/?malaysian-small-scale-farmers https://www.bilaterals.org/?malaysian-small-scale-farmers 2025-10-10 10:21:35 text/html en [] agriculture | farmers | food intellectual property CPTPP Malaysia 10-Oct-2025 <p>Malaysia is preparing to amend its Protection of New Plant Varieties Act to join the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) by 2026 - a key criterion for Malaysia to join a trans-Pacific free trade agreement.</p> https://www.bilaterals.org/?free-trade-agreements-pushing-upov https://www.bilaterals.org/?free-trade-agreements-pushing-upov 2025-10-10 09:12:27 text/html en [] from the movements intellectual property agriculture | farmers | food UAE 10-Oct-2025 <p>GRAIN has updated its dataset on free trade agreements that push harsh new standards for intellectual property rights over biodiversity, going beyond the international standards set by the World Trade Organisation.</p> https://www.bilaterals.org/?history-of-the-negotiations-of-the https://www.bilaterals.org/?history-of-the-negotiations-of-the 2025-09-08 13:00:22 text/html en [] intellectual property agriculture | farmers | food medicines 08-Sep-2025 <p>Coercion rather than negotiations among equal partners seems to explain the final adoption of TRIPS Agreement.</p> https://www.bilaterals.org/?battling-for-farmers-seed-systems https://www.bilaterals.org/?battling-for-farmers-seed-systems 2025-09-04 10:08:38 text/html en [] agriculture | farmers | food from the movements intellectual property US NAFTA | USMCA 04-Sep-2025 <p>A IATP report on on how the U.S. and its seeds companies use free trade agreements to undermine the policy space available for farmers to save, use, exchange, and sell farm-saved seeds.</p>