News from the movements

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  20-Jul-2018 APWLD

  Peoples movements reject the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)

  More than 80 participants representing trade union, farmers, indigenous peoples, health and patients networks, women’s organisations, academia and civil society organisations from the region have gathered in Thailand on the sidelines of the 23rd round of RCEP negotiations.
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  20-Jul-2018 Friends of the Earth International

  Secret RCEP trade deal fails international standards of transparency, experts warn

  The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership involving 16 nations from Asia-Pacific will impact the lives of over three billion people, yet a new study reveals how the deal fails international standards of transparency and public engagement.
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  19-Jul-2018 APWLD

  No RCEP campaign: Thai women’s groups reject RCEP

  Women’s rights organisations from Thailand say NO to RCEP as the neoliberal free trade agreement will only exacerbate inequality and the negative impact on their livelihoods.

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  17-Jul-2018

  Spotlight on negotiations of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership in Bangkok

  Civil society organisations from the RCEP negotiating countries will hold a press briefing at the FCCT on 20th July, Friday, 1.00 - 2.00 P.M. to highlight concerns regarding RCEP negotiations on human rights, intellectual property and investment rules.
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  12-Jul-2018 The Action Network

  Mexico’s landslide election: A labor perspective

  Trade justice alliance webinar on Sunday 15 July
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  28-Jun-2018 Pambazuka

  “You dropping BRICS from above? We’re throwing bricks from below!”

  Social movements resisting the policies and agendas of Brazil-Russia-India-China-SouthAfrica elites will make their voices heard during the BRICS summit in Johannesburg on 22-27 July.
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  27-Jun-2018 Dakar Midi

  Auchan, Orange Money, AIBD, SenegIndia, importations de poulets, autoroute à péage… Défendons les intérêts nationaux !

  Le FRAPP encourage les différents acteurs de la filière avicole à exiger la suspension de l’implantation des multinationales étrangères qui contourne la mesure d’interdiction des importations de poulets vidée ainsi de son sens.
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  22-Jun-2018 Ecologistas en Acción

  Campaña No a los tratados de comercio e inversión

  Ante el anuncio de la Unión Europea de la puesta en marcha de nueve grandes acuerdos nuevos durante 2018, se ha creado la campaña estatal ‘No a los tratados de comercio e inversión’. Su objetivo: ampliar la información a la ciudadanía, trabajar en la incidencia política y continuar con el activismo y la movilización social.