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Women farmers take out rally to oppose RCEP free trade agreement
24-Jul-2017 Social Post
Women from different parts of India marched along with other marginalised communities to protest the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the mega Free Trade Agreement which is currently being negotiated in India.
No RCEP Campaign: Stop trading away human rights
13-Jul-2017 APWLD
The ’No RCEP’ campaign urges governments to consider the adverse impact of the mega free trade agreement
Canada and Chile push gender equality through trade
6-Jun-2017 MENAFN
Canada and Chile updated a 20-year-old free trade agreement by adding a groundbreaking clause on gender equality to encourage women’s entrepreneurship and employment.
Women’s intervention at the RCEP TNC 18th round stakeholders’ meeting in Philippines
12-May-2017 GABRIELA Philippines
The RCEP will only further marginalize women
Protests mark RCEP Manila rounds
12-May-2017 People Over Profit
#NoRCEP week of actions at the 18th TNC Meeting of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
Stop trading workers’ rights over profits
8-May-2017 Forum on FTAs
RCEP magnifies existing inequalities and discriminates against women, indigenous peoples, people living with HIV or other illnesses, people with disabilities,rural communities, farmers and workers
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.”
APWLD: Stop TPP - campaign toolkit
27-Jul-2015 APWLD
Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development have prepared a toolkit for groups that want to join the struggle against the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
CETA: A bad trade for women
19-Dec-2014 CCPA
Does the federal government know how the Canada-European Union Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) will affect Canadian men and women? The answer is ‘no.’
The deadly wages of free trade
15-Jan-2014 CounterPunch
The very same policies which undermined the livelihoods of the approximately 2 million small farmers in Mexico who were displaced as a consequence are devastating the Colombian country side now.
Zapatista uprising 20 years later: How Indigenous Mexicans stood up against NAFTA "death sentence"
5-Jan-2014 Democracy Now!
On the same day the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect on Jan. 1, 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation Army and people of Chiapas declared war on the Mexican government, saying that NAFTA meant death to indigenous peoples. To learn about the impact of the uprising 20 years later and the challenges they continue to face, DN! speak with Peter Rosset, professor of rural social movements in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico.
Women rally against EU-India Free Trade Agreement
26-Feb-2013 e-Pao.net
A public rally-cum-public meeting against the European Union-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was organized at Namoi Khun yesterday wherein hundreds of people took part.
Promoting women’s economic empowerment through gender responsive trade agreements experiences
26-Feb-2013 Femnet
This report is based on the research done by FEMNET to assess the extent to which trade arrangements between African countries and the European Union facilitate African women’s economic empowerment and realization of their economic rights.
Women and Trans Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement
11-Feb-2013 AFTINET
The Australian Fair Trade & Investment Network (AFTINET) presents a special seminar to mark the lead-up to International Women’s Day and the 16th Round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations being held in Singapore, on March 5, at 12.15 pm in the Waratah Room at NSW Parliament.
Our Sister’s Garden and the KORUS FTA
12-May-2012 Hankyoreh
"We lose two trillion won every year because we are importing that amount of agricultural products from other countries, in this case, the United States. That means, ten percent of the population—300,000 peasants—will be forced out of their businesses every year. That means the end to our agricultural base. So, the FTA is a system for the one percent of the people."
Documentary: CAFTA led to workers’ rights violations in Honduras
27-Sep-2011 AFL CIO
Ever since it was passed five years ago, the Central America Free Trade Agreement-Dominican Republic (CAFTA-DR) has led to an increase in unemployment, violations of worker rights and discrimination against women in Honduras, according to an about-to-be-released documentary.
EU-India FTA: Impacts on women
18-Mar-2010 CENTAD
CENTAD, in partnership with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, have come out recently with 4 reports on trade and gender. The first is a backgrounder (literature review) while the other three are on the gender impact of the EU-India FTA in the fields of agriculture, services and health.
EU trade pacts
2-Mar-2010 Fiji Times
A new study shows that the effects of EPAs - under which African, Caribbean and Pacific countries are expected to offer duty-free access to ’substantially all’ EU imports - will be felt differently by women and men in their roles as producers, consumers and users of services.
Free trade deal will cost Ethiopia, warns researchers
7-Jul-2009 Nazret.com
The Ethiopian Government is debating whether to sign the EPA with the EU, as it has concerns about the effect it will have on its fragile industries. Research shows negative implications for women, agriculture and manufacturing.
Unequal partners
4-Jun-2009 Women on Air
Conversations on the EU-India FTA