The National Family Farm Coalition, representing 26 grassroots farmer, rancher, and fisher
organizations in the United States, strongly opposes the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement.
A sign-on petition from Change.org to stop US Congress from ratifiying the US-Korea FTA
Te Wharepora Hou, a group of Maori women based in Auckland, supports civil society groups from Australia and New Zealand in opposing the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).
The TPP Action Group held a visual protest today outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade on Lambton Quay in Wellington, New Zealand
The Thai government has agreed to include alcoholic drinks in the framework of a free trade agreement being negotiated with the European Union.
The Malaysian government last week negotiated free trade agreements (FTAs) with the United States of America (via the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement or TPP) and the European Union (EU).
Quelques dizaines de personnes revêtues de blouses blanches ont manifesté sans incident vendredi devant le bâtiment où se déroulait le sommet UE-Inde à Bruxelles pour réclamer le libre accès aux médicaments génériques dans les pays pauvres.
South Korean farmers staged a protest on Wednesday, urging their government to abolish the US- South Korea free trade agreement.
Thousands of retailers marched in the streets of Delhi against the onslaught of neo-liberal economic policies, raising slogans against supermarkets, free trade agreements (FTA), forward trading and goods and services tax.
On the eve of the 11th EU-India summit, a broad civil society alliance called on the European Commission and the Indian Government to immediately halt the ongoing free trade negotiations between India and the EU.
This video illustrates how, in the EU-India FTA negotiations, the EU Commission and the Indian government have handed the agenda over to corporate lobby groups. This big-business-first agenda will put at risk the livelihoods of millions of small farmers, street traders and patients.
As business leaders meet for the EU-India business summit in Brussels this week, a report by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) revealed today that the EU Commission is using the event to actively orchestrate big business support for the EU-India free trade agreement, despite criticism from small businesses and people’s movements
The Forum against FTAs organised a briefing meeting to raise concerns and interact with Communist Party of India Member of Parliament, D. Raja and Green Party Member of the European Parliament, Ms Franziska Keller. We have made a set of 8 clips that give an account of the issues raised during the briefing meeting.
If the proposed nine-country Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement is one "for the 21st century" as negotiators are calling it, its text should be open so New Zealanders can see what their Government is planning to agree to, say groups concerned about the talks in Auckland.
Organized labor in the US is in an uproar over the new free trade agreement with South Korea, with some union leaders accusing United Auto Workers president Bob King of embracing a deal to curry favor with a White House that saved the UAW with its $80 billion bailout of the auto industry.
Marking strong protest against the proposed signing of the European Union-India Free Trade Agreement on IP Provision, a mass protest rally was taken out today jointly by the Centre for Social Development in collaboration with organisation working on drugs and HIV/AIDS, North East Diaglogue Forum, Women Action for Development and Bosco Mangal, Chingmeirong Don Bosco Society, Imphal.
A noisy crowd gathered in Auckland this morning to voice opposition to a proposed trans-Pacific free trade agreement which they say will strip New Zealand of its strategic assets and open it up to rampant foreign investment.
On the eve of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations in Auckland, a leaked negotiating document has exposed a fundamental conflict between the US and New Zealand positions on intellectual property.
A mass rally cum public meeting was held today at Moirang in protest against the proposed EU-India Free Trade Agreement and Violence against Women which was jointly organized by the North East Dialogue Forum, New Life Foundation, Social Action Platform, Women Group against Discrimination and Women Action for Development.
Kenya must pursue negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the European Union to their favourable conclusion because there is no better alternative.