Twenty years after it took effect, NAFTA has failed the vast majority of Mexicans

Lors du « 5e Sommet continental », qui s’est tenu récemment dans le département du Cauca en Colombie, 4 000 représentants indigènes du continent américain ont exigé un arrêt des signatures de Traités Bilatéraux d’Investissement et d’Accords de Libre Échange qui créent des politiques d’expropriation de ressources naturelles et des règles permettant le pillage des biens et des cultures des peuples.

Over 100 civil society groups and social movements from Europe and the USA have signed on an open letter that was sent to the chief negotiators of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership to voice one joint demand: to exclude any Investor-state Dispute Settlement mechanism from the TTIP

En solo cinco días medio millón de ciudadanos alemanes firmó una petición dirigida al comisario europeo para Comercio, Karel De Grucht, y el presidente del Parlamento Europeo, Martin Schulz, para interrumpir las negociaciones iniciadas en Washington.

L’alliance D19-20, soutenue par plus de 50 organisations citoyennes et syndicales, dénonce le traité sur la stabilité, la coordination et la gouvernance (TSCG) ainsi que l’accord de partenariat transatlantique de commerce et d’investissement (TTIP).

Caleb Duarte and Mia Eve Rollow from EDELO (En Donde Era La UNO/Where the United Nations Used to Be) explore the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement in Chiapas, Mexico’s poorest state and the site of the Zapatista revolution.

A leaked EU negotiation proposal for the EU-US trade agreement reveals the European Commission’s plans to fundamentally change the way regulations will be adopted in the future, says the activist group CEO

Rien dans les propositions ne servira les intérêts des consommateurs ou du public. Il ne s’agit que d’aplanir les difficultés pour l’agro-industrie.

A continuación, transcribimos la declaración pública (aparecida hoy en El Mercurio) hecha por 34 diputados y 15 senadores de la nación que piden detener y transparentar el TPP.

The transantlantic trade deal’s agenda for food safety if all about reducing hoops for agribusiness. Not only would this hurt Europeans, whose clearly higher standards would be dragged down, but it would affect many other countries’ food producers and consumers, since any deal reached between Washington and Brussels will set a new international benchmark.

On the occasion the third round of negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the Heinrich Boell Foundation and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) invite you to join them for a webinar on the agreement’s potential impacts on agriculture in the US and EU.

In mid-November, Wikileaks released the secret draft text for the Intellectual Property Rights Chapter of the TPP. Stuart Trew talks about what this leak tells us about the agreement as a whole.

Entretien avec Raoul Marc Jennar

La Vía Campesina movilizará una gran delegación de campesinos, representantes de diversos países, para demostrar su oposición a la Organización Mundial de Comercio (OMC).

The Saharawi Natural Resources Watch has called on all European Parliamentarians, to reject the new EU-Morocco fishing agreement, which will be voted in December in the European Parliament so as to “honor Europe and its peoples”.

Ce guide décrypte les principaux risques émanant de ce projet d’accord.

El Acuerdo de Asociación Transpacífico, más conocido como TPP, es un tratado de libre comercio que Chile está negociando junto a 12 países del área Pacífico. La última filtración del TPP (Acuerdo de Asociación Transpacífico) confirma todo lo que temíamos: este es un acuerdo que daña nuestros derechos. ¡Firma para detenerlo!

The European Trade Union Confederation strongly opposes the inclusion of ISDS in CETA, and the subsequent creation of a parallel court system which allows multinationals to sue and threaten governments with heavy costs for doing their democratic job of regulating their societies and economies.

As European and Canadian trade officials meet again in Brussels today to continue negotiating an investment protection chapter in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), transatlantic civil society groups are demanding that this chapter be removed entirely as an affront to democracy, an attack on the independent judiciary, and a threat to climate change and our shared environment.

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