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Waitangi Tribunal claimants win on TPPA and data sovereignty
19-Nov-2021 Voxy
The Tribunal agrees that the CPTPP breaches the Crown’s obligations to Māori under Te Tiriti o Waitangi and failed to protect Māori rights and interests in data and the digital domain.
Walmartland: How US stores colonizing Mexico are displacing local culture
30-Aug-2021 Counter Punch
More and more US transnationals have opened up in Mexico over the past few decades, taking advantage of unfair trade agreements, super-exploitative labor conditions, and cheap utilities.
Canada’s colonialism extends through its foreign policy
16-Aug-2021 Rabble.ca
The colonial national affinity between Canada and Israel creates the context for the Canada Israel free trade agreement
Rethinking investment law from the ground up: extractivism, human rights, and investment treaties
9-Apr-2021 IISD
For many people affected by resource extraction, it is the prevailing legal regime that dis-embeds and disintegrates, because investment treaties can protect ventures that upend their lives with little scope for voice or redress.
Urgent call from international CSO to Ecuador on the Chevron case
12-Dec-2020 Stop Corporate Impunity
150 organizations are asking the government of Ecuador to appeal the arbitration award issued by the Dutch justice system in favor of the oil transnational Chevron.
The remarkable life and legacy of indigenous leader Berta Cáceras
22-Jun-2020 Salon
Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres was a strong voice against free trade and fought for the Lenca people’s right to live on their sacred land.
Justice and reparation: the struggle of Chevron-affected communities in COVID-19 times
27-May-2020 Stop Corporate Impunity
Indigenous communities call for international solidarity to support for the vindication of rights of the comunities and peoples affected by corporate impunity and their struggle for a dignified life.
The EU must review the premises of its free-trade agreement with Mercosur
7-May-2020 Observatorio do Clima
Environmental safeguards within the agreement, which were already insufficient even before COVID-19, have now made the document outdated.
Guatemalan water protectors persist, despite mining company threats
27-Mar-2020 Inequality.org
The hard work of protecting water and land from the long-term harms associated with gold and silver mining takes place daily on the frontlines of tenacious struggles throughout Latin America and around the world.
Chinese investment upheavals anger Laos’ indigenous tribes
5-Mar-2020 Nikkei Asian Review
Nowadays, China is its largest foreign investor and aid provider in a series of infrastructure projects. But critics have raised serious concerns about the impact of the projects, pointing at their gigantic price tags and environmental issues, among others.
Blueprint for a human rights impact assessment of the planned comprehensive free trade agreement between EFTA and Mercosur
24-Jan-2020 Alliance Sud
This study assesses the impact of the EFTA-Mercosur free trade agreement on access to medicines, indigenous rights and women rights.
’When two elephants fight’: EU, Indonesia tussle over resources
22-Dec-2019 Aljazeera
As disputes over palm oil and nickel head to World Trade Organization, affected residents say they feel trapped.
340+ organisations call on the EU to immediately halt trade negotiations with Brazil
18-Jun-2019 S2B
In an open letter, over 340 civil society organisations are demanding that the European Union immediately halt free trade agreement negotiations with the Mercosur bloc (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) on the grounds of deteriorating human rights and environmental conditions in Brazil.
Mining companies use excessive legal powers to gamble with Latin American lives
13-May-2019 Inequality
In more than two-thirds of the mining-related lawsuits against governments in the region, communities have actively organizing against the mining activities.
Pressure mounts on EU to curb Brazilian deforestation, human rights abuses
10-May-2019 Mongabay
A new report by more than 20 NGOs is calling on the EU to include provisions in trade agreements now under negotiation, such as the EU/MERCOSOR agreement, that would fully protect forests and indigenous rights.
New report exposes mining companies suing Latin American countries where communities defend land and environment
2-May-2019 Mining Watch
We analyzed 38 multi-million dollar claims brought by the mining industry using ISDS and other investment protection laws; in over half, communities are fighting to protect Indigenous territory, water, and more.
Make EU trade with Brazil sustainable
26-Apr-2019 Science
Brazil, home to one of the planet’s last great forests, is currently in trade negotiations with its second largest trading partner, the European Union (EU). We urge the EU to seize this critical opportunity to ensure that Brazil protects human rights and the environment.
«Au Mexique, les intérêts du Canada sont ceux des entreprises minières»
13-Mar-2019 Sputnik
Les sociétés minières canadiennes ont encore mauvaise presse au Mexique, car elles ne respecteraient pas les droits de peuples autochtones.
Lessons from Aotearoa: The indigenous “exception” clause in free trade agreements
26-Feb-2019 Yellowhead Institute
Exception clauses amount to little more than tokenism, and short-change our full rights to determine trade relationships on our land and oceanic territories.
One hundred years of expropriation without compensation
4-Aug-2018 Expropriate
On 29 July 1918, the British judiciary proffered the Empire’s most expressly and egregiously racist justification for the land dispossession of indigenous peoples. Today, an ICSID tribunal continues that mission. No matter which way Zimbabwean’s turn at the polls, they’re still paying for their invasion and occupation by Cecil Rhodes’ British South Africa company...