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The rise and fall of mega trade deals
16-Jan-2017 American University Washington College of Law
Panel discussing the rise and fall of major trade deals.
Reaction from Polisario on EU-Morocco court case
5-Jan-2017 Western Sahara Resource Watch
See statement and press conference held in Brussels.
First season in Switzerland without occupation tomatoes?
9-Dec-2016 WSRW
From this winter on, Swiss supermarkets will probably, for the first time, no longer sell tomatoes from occupied Western Sahara.
The Empire Files: Chevron vs. the Amazon - ending corporate tyranny
16-Nov-2016 TeleSUR
The oil giant Chevron Texaco and its decades-long battle to avoid paying damages it owes in one of the worst environmental disasters in history.
Canada-EU trade talks collapse in Wallonia as profoundly ‘disappointed’ Freeland walks out
21-Oct-2016 RCI
Last-minute talks between Canada and the European Union to salvage a landmark free trade deal have failed, Canada’s International Trade Minister confirmed in an emotional statement to the media as she walked out of the negotiations in Belgium today.
TiSA agreement leaks show corporations pushing privatization of public services
20-Oct-2016 TRNN
The latest leaks of teh Trade in Services Agreement show prohibitions on requiring foreign companies to employ local workers, says Deborah James
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.”
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.
Dozens of Indigenous absolved in Peru’s 2009 ’Baguazo’ massacre
23-Sep-2016 TeleSur
Dozens of Indigenous people in Peru have been absolved of accusations that they were responsible for a massacre seven years ago that killed at least 32 people, due to intense conflict triggered by the country’s free trade agreements.
German activists take EU-Canada trade deal to Constitutional Court
1-Sep-2016 Reuters
Activists delivered what they said was Germany’s biggest-ever public complaint to the Constitutional Court, hoping it will scupper a trade agreement between the European Union and Canada.
The court that rules the world
30-Aug-2016 BuzzFeed
A parallel legal universe, open only to corporations and largely invisible to everyone else, helps executives convicted of crimes escape punishment.
Opposition to TPP grows as postal workers’ union rallies against deal
25-Aug-2016 RT
Some 2,000 members of the American Postal Workers Union have gathered in Miami where they are officially opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Water for gold
5-Aug-2016 Loading Docs
Water for Gold tells the alarming story of how international trade law is leading us to trade our most basic rights to clean, safe water for access to gold.
The Empire Files: Bringing corporations to justice with Ecuador’s UN Rep
24-Jul-2016 Tele Sur
For the first time ever, progress is being made at the United Nations for a binging legal instrument that would hold corporations accountable for human rights violations.
TTIP: Why are the talks taking so long?
15-Jul-2016 BBC
A short video takes a look at some of the reasons why the talks are so complicated.
40 arrested in Brussels after protesters attack TTIP negotiators – with confetti
15-Jul-2016 RT
The latest round of negotiations of the under-threat trade agreement between the US and the EU is suffering from pressure both, outside and inside the negotiating room.
An interview with Lauge Poulsen, author of Bounded Rationality and Economic Diplomacy
15-Jun-2016 IISD
Lauge Poulsen is a Lecturer in International Political Economy at University College London. His recent book explains why and how developing countries signed up to investment treaties.
EU-PH FTA protest action in the Philippines
3-Jun-2016 CHD APIRD
Health groups register their contempt for the upcoming EU-Philippines Free Trade Agreement.
Citra Mina workers
25-May-2016 Focus
The Philippine government is hoping the EU-Philippines FTA wil facilitate more tuna exports to the EU, but the industry is riddled with issues of low wages, unfair labor practices, poor and slave-like working conditions.
PNG attacks Australia at Pacific free trade talks
2-Mar-2016 SBS
The signing of a Pacific free trade deal in June has been thrown into doubt with the largest island nation Papua New Guinea saying it favours Australia and will damage local industries.