A new report unpacks how decades of corporate-led trade agreements have displaced millions of people, stripping them of their livelihoods and forcing them to migrate to survive.
ECVC denounces the steps taken by the European Commission and Morocco regarding the EU-Morrocco trade agreement, as they try at all costs to save the interests of a minority of transnational corporations and foreign investors at the expense of the Saharawi people and Moroccan and European peasants.
These fast track trade deals risk serving the business interests of transnational corporations instead of contributing to more sustainable trading relationships.
GRAIN has updated its dataset on free trade agreements that push harsh new standards for intellectual property rights over biodiversity, going beyond the international standards set by the World Trade Organisation.
This episode unpacks the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, world’s largest free trade agreement, and the dangerous push to insert the Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanism into its investment chapter.
Between July 14 and 17, in the city of Choluteca (Honduras), more than 60 people from 20 local communities and representatives of national and international social movements gathered for the “Meeting of communities affected by energy projects in southern Honduras - Without human rights, there is no energy sovereignty.”
International Trade Policy Researcher Stuart Trew on Trump announcing additional tariffs on Canadian products and why he thinks ‘CUSMA is going down the pipes.’
The talks were described as productive, with both sides reviewing unresolved areas within the negotiations and identifying what they termed “possible landing zones” on pending issues.
The reference to infrastructure construction suggests that Chinese participation as part of its Belt & Road Initiative projects and investments into Russia will increase.