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Urgent mobilisation against the signing of the Samoa Agreement to succeed the Cotonou Agreement

27-Aug-2021 SOL

The agreement was concluded between the chief negotiators (foreign or trade ministers) in December 2020 and initialled on 15 April 2021 in Samoa.

African social movements demand that AU suspends undemocratic and pro-industry seed and GMO guidelines and processes

26-Aug-2021 ACBio

More than 50 African groups denounce how the African Union is using the African Continental Free Trade Area as a justification to push the seed harmonisation agenda.

Why a hasty trade deal may not be good for us – or for the environment

26-Aug-2021 Friends of the Earth

What precedent might be set by the new Australia trade deal and what could it tell us about the future for UK environmental standards?

Death by a thousand treaties

20-Aug-2021 The Ecologist

Governments must urgently terminate all international investment treaties in force, in particular the Energy Charter Treaty, and stop negotiating new ones.

Blockading global Green New Deals

19-Aug-2021 The Ecologist

Tackling trade and investment agreements must be an essential step in achieving justice-oriented action on climate change, health inequities and economic injustice.

French airport investors make good on earlier threat to bring treaty-based claims against Chile in relation to reduced air traffic during the COVID pandemic

17-Aug-2021 IA Reporter

Two French airport companies, Aeroports de Paris (ADP) and Vinci Airports, have initiated treaty-based arbitration proceedings against Chile, invoking the Chile-France bilateral investment treaty (BIT).

Australia’s real leverage in China’s CPTTP bid

28-Sep-2021 The Interpreter

When China applied earlier this month to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, the renamed 11-nation trade pact spanning Asia and the Pacific, Beijing seemed to hand Australia the rare diplomatic gift of leverage.

AfCFTA Secretariat signs landmark agreement with UK Government

28-Sep-2021 Dennislaw News

The African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the United Kingdom Government to formalise shared commitment to the success of the agreement.

EAC Secretary General urges AfCFTA Secretariat to adapt a private sector-led and people-centered approach to boost intra-African trade

28-Sep-2021 East African Community

The East African Community Secretary General urged the AfCFTA Secretariat to adapt an integration approach that is people-centred, market-driven and private sector-led, to ensure African citizens benefit from the continental agreement.

From the movements

Urgent mobilisation against the signing of the Samoa Agreement to succeed the Cotonou Agreement

African social movements demand that AU suspends undemocratic and pro-industry seed and GMO guidelines and processes

Why a hasty trade deal may not be good for us – or for the environment

Death by a thousand treaties

Blockading global Green New Deals

French airport investors make good on earlier threat to bring treaty-based claims against Chile in relation to reduced air traffic during the COVID pandemic

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