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Demise of TPP celebrated by global social movements
17-Nov-2016 TeleSur
Civil society movements across Asia, Latin America, Oceania, and North America announced that their seven-year strategic campaign had successfully derailed the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Free Trade Agreement EU - Ecuador
15-Nov-2016 Stop Corporate Impunity
Communiqué of the Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity.
Human rights must be integrated into international investment agreements
14-Nov-2016 Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Human rights NGOs urge rejection of CETA, RCEP, TPP, TTIP, EU-Vietnam FTA.
EU’s EPA strategy detrimental to Africa – ECOWAS farmers
7-Nov-2016 Vanguard
The Economic Community of West Africa States ECOWAS,’ farmers have called on African leaders to resist the pressure being put on them by the European Union to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement.
Dutch referendum petition launched to oppose CETA ratification
4-Nov-2016 EurActiv
Dutch group very similar to the one which organised the referendum that blocked the EU-Ukraine association agreement has already collected over 190,000 signatures for blocking the ratification of CETA, the EU-Canada trade deal.
Primer on RCEP and TPPA
28-Oct-2016 People Over Profit
FTAs operate as extensions of the WTO resulting in decentralized and yet intensifying attacks against workers and peasants across the different global regions.
World union meeting unites against TiSA and CETA
27-Oct-2016 ITF
Global trade union leaders meeting in Panama have united in condemnation of TiSA (the Trade in Services Agreement) and CETA (the Comprehensive Economic & Trade Agreement), highlighting the risks that both trade agreements pose to jobs and job security.
Public sector unions to oppose Asia Pacific mega trade deal RCEP
27-Oct-2016 PSI
On 12 October, the closing day of the Asia Pacific Regional Conference in Fukuoka, around 250 delegates representing more than 70 PSI affiliates from 18 countries resolved to intensify the struggle against the ambitious Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership under negotiation among 16 countries in the region.
Activists fret about RCEP impact
20-Oct-2016 Bangkok Post
Access to affordable medicine and farmers’ control over seeds could be undermined by the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership being negotiated between Asean member countries and six other trade partners, says FTA Watch in Thailand
The great CETA swindle
20-Oct-2016 CEO
A close look at the controversial EU-Canada trade deal shows that concerns blocking its ratification are well-founded.
Ecuador’s Indigenous leader fighting Chevron visits Dakota camp
19-Oct-2016 Telesur
“We don’t want what happened to us to happen to the people in Dakota,” Piaguaje told teleSUR.
Peru’s Broad Front moves to block TPP ratification
18-Oct-2016 Peoples World
In protests billed as “anti-colonial” demonstrations, Peruvians hit the streets on 12 October against the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Trade in Services Agreement
Legal statement on investment protection in TTIP and CETA
17-Oct-2016 Stop TTIP
Over 100 law professors from across Europe have come together to send a clear message to EU decision makers demanding the investor protection mechanisms be excluded from TTIP and CETA.
Activists reject ratification of seed patent in ASEAN RCEP
17-Oct-2016 The Jakarta Post
An activist group is calling on the government to not ratify the ASEAN Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) clause on International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) 1991, saying that it will increase global corporations’ monopolistic control over small farmers.
Virtual teach-in videos: a heterodox and feminist approach to the Continental Free Trade Area
17-Oct-2016 Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
Regions Refocus has compiled five “Virtual Teach-ins” of footage from the workshop “Towards an Equitable and Transformative Continental Free Trade Area: A Heterodox and Feminist Approach.”
Newly leaked TISA texts expose the scope of the corporate power grab
17-Oct-2016 IUF
"It’s time to halt the negotiations, publish the secret texts and ensure the widest possible public debate to expose the full extent of the threat these treaties pose to democracy and the labour movement," international trade union organizations say.
An open letter to the sixteen governments negotiating the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
17-Oct-2016
95 health, community and development organisations in the Asia Pacific region call on trade negotiators from sixteen countries in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement negotiations to ensure access to medicines is protected. We the undersigned organisations call on negotiators to protect health and reject all TRIPS plus intellectual property measures in the RCEP.
Open letter to ambassadors (in India) of RCEP negotiating countries by Delhi Network of Positive People
13-Oct-2016 Don’t trade our lives away
Member countries must consider the impact of RCEP on access to medicines in developing countries
Over 4,000 protest against TTIP & CETA in Luxembourg
10-Oct-2016 Luxemburger Wort
More than 4,000 people gathered in Luxembourg City to protest against controversial free trade agreements CETA and TTIP.
#NoRCEP regional week of action
7-Oct-2016 APWLD
10-16 October 2016: Why a week of action and what you can do.