For the second time in a week, a prominent anti-mining activist has been assassinated in El Salvador.
La coalition nationale « Bare Ape » dénonce la signature de l’Accord de partenariat économique (Ape) par le gouvernement haïtien et demande au parlement de ne pas ratifier le document.
Colombian trade unionists on Wednesday asked the EU not to sign an FTA with Colombia due to the human rights violations they believe to have been committed by the Uribe government.
Having received hundreds of stories of resistance from all over the world, we’ve spent the last few months focusing on the Wall that is being built along the USA’s entire border with Mexico.
Mostraron su repudio a la política económica del mandatario, que califican de "entreguista". En la actividad participó el líder nacionalista Ollanta Humala.
On 23/11/2009 the South Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers Movement (SICCFM) organized a mass rally and blocked the new Mangalore port in Karnataka against the corporatization of land and sea, and the destructive cheap imports of food and crops because of WTO and FTAs
Hundreds of farmers from across the State led by the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha blocked the main entrance of the New Mangalore Port on Monday in a symbolic protest against the Union Government’s policy allowing the duty-free import of edible oils.
Les agriculteurs suisses ont réitéré leur opposition à un accord de libre-échange agricole avec l’Union européenne (UE).
Consenso de organizaciones, redes y movimientos sociales a partir de la VI Ronda celebrada entre el 21 y 25 de septiembre en Bruselas.
En el marco de la VII Ronda de Negociación del Tratado de Libre Comercio –TLC- entre la Unión Europea, Perú y Colombia, que se realiza en Bogotá, más de 130 organizaciones sociales de Europa y América Latina - entre ellas la Red Birregional Europa, América Latina y el Caribe "Enlazando Alternativas" reiteran su demanda de “suspender la negociación de la Unión Europea con Perú y Colombia"
En documento, divulgado el último lunes (16), más de 200 organizaciones sociales, sindicatos y entidades indígenas peruanas, andinas, europeas y latinoamericanas demandan la suspensión de la negociación del Tratado y el "freno a la injusticia y a la desigualdad".
Para los manifestantes, los tratados integran un modelo económico global que genera la incapacidad de los países latinoamericanos para promover políticas de desarrollo, profundiza la pobreza de los pueblos, las graves violaciones de derechos humanos, la concentración de la riqueza y de la tierra, entre otras "consecuencias nefastas".
More than twenty thousand South Korean farmers rallied on Tuesday to denounce free trade with the United States, ahead of US President Barack Obama’s visit to the country.
Activists from different countries with which the EU tries to sign (free) trade agreements will tel us about their campaigns.
The Minga will continue. But if it loses its essence, it risks becoming a form of resistance that is considered acceptable to power.
The anger among the Fishworkers, in the face of such a monstrous Agreement, was elaborated by T. Peter (President, KSMTF): “The Fishing Community in Kerala will take all measures to stop this agreement, and will physically prevent any vessel carrying fish from the ASEAN nations from entering Cochin Harbour”.
Meredith Aby, of the Anti-War Committee and the Colombia Action Network, explained the root of the coup, "While in office Zelaya took some strong stands to help his people, like increasing the minimum wage and standing with ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America) against the US’s free trade agenda in the region."
While researching for a film on the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) – a tri-lateral initiative between Mexico, the United States, and Canada – B.C. filmmaker Paul Manly was convinced by people to head to Montebello, Que., for a 2007 summit attended by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, US President George W Bush, and Mexican President Felipe Calderón.
"PERÚ-BAGUA, Derramamiento de sangre en el contexto del paro amazónico - Urge abrir diálogo de buena fe". Informe de la misión de la FIDH que visitó Perú los días 16 a 19 de junio de 2009 tras los violentos sucesos de Bagua.
Activistas sociales de Colombia pidieron hoy aquí a la Unión Europea y a Alemania exigir más garantías de derechos humanos al gobierno colombiano en las negociaciones sobre un Tratado de Libre Comercio.