News from the movements

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  23-Sep-2019 ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN People’s Forum 2019

  People’s resistance to RCEP intensifies, amplifying #NotoRCEP call!

  As governments scramble to save RCEP, peoples from Southeast Asia have consolidated their strong opposition to this ambitious and unjust trade and investment agreement.
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  19-Sep-2019 Press Enza

  Trade and investment treaties aggravate the climate crisis

  The campaign ‘No to trade and investment treaties’ has called on citizens to join the mobilizations planned for next September 27 in the different cities of Spain.
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  18-Sep-2019 América Latina Mejor Sin TLC

  Una web para conocer los impactos del libre comercio

  La Plataforma América Latina Mejor Sin TLC presentó su página web donde pueden encontrarse noticias, análisis, investigaciones y anuncios de actividades sobre los impactos del libre comercio en la región.

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  18-Sep-2019 Free Malaysia Today

  Why race against clock on trade pact ‘shrouded with secrecy’, asks NGO group

  A coalition of 61 NGOs has asked the government the reason for racing against the clock in concluding the world’s largest trade pact — the RCEP — with details “shrouded in secrecy”.
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  17-Sep-2019 The Conversation

  Suddenly, the world’s biggest trade agreement won’t allow corporations to sue governments

  Malaysia’s trade minister Datuk Darell Leiking revealed that Malaysia and each of the other 15 parties to the RCEP negotiations had agreed to exclude ISDS provisions from the deal.
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  16-Sep-2019 Tribune India

  Farmers urge PM to withdraw from RCEP

  Farmers say pact to join regional economic partnership will unsettle domestic farming.
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  13-Sep-2019 Vice

  In 2003, a farmer killed himself to protest globalization. Little has changed

  For years, farmers have said free trade policies have harmed them. Will the world finally start listening?
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  10-Sep-2019 La Vía Campesina

  La Vía Campesina-América del Norte: denunciamos el acuerdo por socavar la Soberanía Alimentaria

  El primer Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN) devastó comunidades rurales en Estados Unidos, Canadá y México. Este experimento con libre comercio resultó rentable para las corporaciones multinacionales y fue nocivo para quienes laboran en el campo.