While many Canadians have never heard of the Security and Prosperity Partnership, activists from across North America are planning to make their presence felt at the "3 Bandidos" summit in Montebello, Quebec, and shed some light on what many are describing as ’NAFTA Plus’.
The General Confederation of Peruvian Workers (CGTP) warned on Tuesday that it will stage a national strike to demand higher salaries and to protest against the Free Trade Agreement with the United States.
The RP-China agricultural agreement, for example, provides China with the capability to produce food using Philippine territorial lands and waters.This would inevitably mean massive displacement of peasants from their lands, and the crops to be planted are not for Filipino consumption but for export to China.
El Viceministerio de Relaciones Económicas y Comercio Exterior dependiente de la Cancillería inició este jueves en La Paz un proceso de diálogo con empresarios, productores campesinos, artesanos, profesionales y otros sectores, con el objetivo de consensuar con la sociedad civil la política que adoptará Bolivia en la negociación del Acuerdo de Asociación entre la Comunidad Andina de Naciones (CAN) y la Unión Europea (UE)
After the emerging disaster of CAFTA, Central American countries recently launched into a new round of trade negotiations, this time with the European Union.
Between the 9th and 11th of September, 2007, Auckland will host the second annual "United States-New Zealand Partnership Forum". We intend to protest and if possible shut down this forum and disrupt the related activities and events.
Par la force de mobilisation des organisations de la société civile africaine, les Accords de partenariat économique sont en passe de devenir l’un des processus de négociation nord-sud les plus médiatisés de cette décennie.
Some 1,700 indigenous people participated in a July 23-27 caravan to Bogota from Santander de Quilichao in the southwestern Colombian department of Cauca to demand peace, to call for popular unity and to oppose a "free trade" agreement (TLC, from its initials in Spanish) that the government of President Alvaro Uribe has signed with the US.
A la veille ou pendant la réunion des pays ACP sur les APE prévue pour se tenir du 22 au 26 octobre 2007, la Plate forme des acteurs de la société civile du Bénin (Pascib) projette la tenue d’une rencontre nationale.
Esta casa de estudios continuará con el análisis crítico del TLC y de su agenda de implementación, y seguirá poniendo a disposición de la ciudadanía toda la información producida en la Institución para que en el referéndum pueda tomar una decisión fundamentada
The struggle against the Korea-US FTA faces the difficult challenge of stopping its ratification.
Leaders of the movement against the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States (CAFTA) spoke to about 200 people yesterday outside the Supreme Elections Tribunal in San José.
Representantes de diferentes sectores se manifestaron esta mañana para protestar por la llamada de atención que hizo el Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones, TSE
Organizaciones sociales, populares e indígenas del departamento del Cauca iniciaron una movilización social exigiendo, entre otras cosas, que se convoque a una consulta nacional sobre el Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC)
A multi-sectoral group has renewed its opposition to a bilateral trade agreement between the Philippines and Japan by calling on the Philippine Senate not to ratify the deal when it opens session on Monday.
Movimientos sociales de todo el mundo convocan la sociedad internacional a adherir a la Semana de Acción Global contra la Deuda y las IFIs (Instituciones Financieras Internacionales), que será realizada entre los días 14 y 21 de octubre
The following letter was sent to members of the US Congress on April 23, 2007, with the signatures that appear to the right, under Petition Sponsor. Now it is your turn to add your signature to express your support of this letter and your opposition to the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. The petition with fresh signatures will be sent to members of the US Congress before the final ratification vote.
Ante lo ocurrido en las últimas semanas, llamamos al movimiento popular a retomar la mejor arma que tenemos y que ha permitido alcanzar muchas de las conquistas y derechos del pueblo costarricense : la movilización callejera y organizada del pueblo
A nombre de la Alianza Social Continental, parte de la organización internacional del evento, el secretario para América Latina, Enrique Daza, enfatizó que el continente está fracturado por los TLC, bases militares, "y lo que ha venido imponiendo Estados Unidos
In a joint statement, the largest labour federations in Canada and Colombia reject the announced trade negotiations between Canada, Colombia and Peru as “an extreme free-market trade and investment model which guarantees the rights of investors over the human, social, economic, cultural and labour rights of its citizens.”