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6 ways we could improve NAFTA for working people
21-Dec-2016 AFL-CIO
It is important that everyday working people’s perspectives lead the debate, starting with how to rewrite NAFTA.
Let us not sacrifice human rights for commercial interests
15-Dec-2016 CNCDH
Opinion on international trade and investment agreements : « Let us not sacrifice human rights for commercial interests - The example of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between the European Union and Canada (CETA) »
Namur Declaration
6-Dec-2016 Déclaration de Namur
The heated debates generated in Europe by the signature of the CETA have revealed that the way the EU negotiates international economic and trade agreements as well as their content are challenged by an increasingly large segment of public opinion.
A new, climate-friendly approach to trade
22-Nov-2016 Sierra Club
We urgently need a new approach to trade that prioritizes the needs of people and planet.
We must rethink globalization, or Trumpism will prevail
17-Nov-2016 The Guardian
Rising inequality is largely to blame for this electoral upset. Continuing with business as usual is not an option.
Ten progressive S&D principles for a new era of trade agreements
9-Nov-2016 S&D
The first objective of trade agreements should be to benefit the widest possible range of citizens. Trade deals should contribute to sustainable economic growth and jobs in the EU and in partner countries.
The trade system and climate action: ways forward under the Paris Agreement
29-Oct-2016 Climate Strategies
The relationship between trade policy and climate policy needs to improve in the future, in particular with a view towards implementing the Paris Agreement.
Building a treaty on human rights and TNCs
20-Oct-2016 Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity
Proposal from the global campaign to reclaim peoples power, dismantle corporate power and stop impunity.
The new rules of the road: a progressive approach to globalization
22-Sep-2016 American Prospect
The new president needs a fresh approach to trade.
Remodeling India’s investment treaty regime
18-Jul-2016 The Wire
India is seeking to terminate BITs signed with 57 countries and sign joint interpretative statements with the other 25 treaty states – all an outcome of the country’s new model BIT.
Alternative model for a sustainable development chapter and related provisions in the Transatlantic Trade an Investment Partnership
14-Jul-2016 S2B
The alternative model proposed here addresses the shortcomings of the EU Proposal and proposes a sustainable development chapter.
UN Treaty on transnational corporations, other business enterprises & human rights: Options for justice
31-May-2016 S2B
This report discusses options for the following aspects of the treaty: access to remedy; enforcement mechanisms; and its relationship with the trade and investment regime.
Investment-related dispute settlement: Towards an inclusive multilateral approach
29-May-2016 IISD
Results from an IISD expert meeting held in Montreux, Switzerland, May 23–24, 2016.
To change a BIT is not enough
22-Mar-2016 Both Ends
On the need to create sound policy frameworks for investment.
Model clauses for the exclusion of public services from trade and investment agreements
14-Feb-2016 S2B
Study commissioned by the Chamber of Labour Vienna and the European Federation of Public Service Unions
International peoples treaty on the control of transnational corporations
22-Dec-2014 Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity
The main objective of this initiative is to subordinate the juridical-political architecture that sustains the power of transnational corporations to human rights norms and rules.
A call for the building of an alternative legal framework to the international investment treaties
29-May-2014 Network for Justice in Global Investment
This document seeks to incorporate proposals that have for some time been in the process of elaboration by actors from civil society, social movements, academics, and legal experts.
Must we link trade to social and environmental standards?
29-Apr-2014 Srfood.org
The inclusion of "sustainable development" chapters in bilateral trade agreements has generally met with resistance from the EU’s trading partners.
Economy for life in our Earth community
20-Dec-2013 Focus
This living document is a result of an extensive process led by the Social Movements for an Alternative Asia (SMAA), Gerak Lawan, La Via Campesina and the supporters of the #EndWTO Campaign.
The alternative trade mandate
26-Nov-2013 TNI
The Alternative Trade Mandate has been developed in extensive civil society consultations all over Europe.