From the movements
Digital trade deals, monopolies and crypto: The new architecture of private control
The ideological convergence between digital free-trade policy, Silicon Valley platform ideology and crypto-libertarianism is difficult to ignore. All promote distrust toward public regulation, celebrate borderless markets, and frame technological systems as superior alternatives to democratic governance.
Alert to the Malagasy population concerning the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union, to be signed on Wednesday 10 June on the island of Mauritius
The EPA would have a negative and potentially devastating impact on populations’ right to food, as well as on peasant producers’ right to use, select, protect and exchange seeds of their choice.
The global trade architecture and the rush for critical minerals
The global rush for critical minerals, driven by the demand for renewable energy technologies, has intensified competition among major powers seeking to secure control over emerging “green” value chains.
Social organizations in Panama and international allies are promoting a petition demanding that the government reject negotiations with the mining company First Quantum
Social organizations in Panama are promoting a petition to the Panamanian government, urging President José Raúl Mulino to reject any negotiations with First Quantum Minerals to reopen the Cobre Panamá mine, whose contract was declared unconstitutional by Panama’s Supreme Court in 2023.
What’s at stake in calls for revamping India’s BIT framework
Instead of relying on an investment treaty-based approach and weakening the 2015 Model BIT framework, India should initiate domestic policy reforms such as strengthening the rule of law.
