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3-mar-2017 MSF RCEP investment chapter presents a grave threat to access to medicines
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) raises concerns over provisions under negotiation in the RCEP investment chapter that threaten to restrict access to affordable medicines for millions of people -
1ro-mar-2017 Trade Justice Pilipinas Resist RCEP and corporate trade deals- Trade Justice Pilipinas
Trade Justice Pilipinas a broad platform campaigning for just trade and investment policies expresses its opposition to international economic agreements like Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) and other new generation FTAs that advance corporate agenda over peoples rights and welfare. -
28-feb-2017 Info Justice Statement of public interest principles for copyright protection under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
Civil Society Statement concerning about the copyright protection standards proposed for the RCEP IP Chapter. -
3-feb-2017 Focus Time to terminate trade & investment agreements allowing corporations to sue government
The recent investment arbitral decision against the Philippines in favor of the Belgian corporation should be a wake up call on the dangers posed by free trade and investment agreements. -
14-dic-2016 SPI Tolak RCEP, wujudkan kedaulatan pangan
Henry Saragih, ketua umum Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI) menyampaikan, RCEP memiliki dampak negatif terhadap petani kecil seperti memberikan monopoli legal atas hak paten benih kepada perusahaan seperti Monsanto dan Sygenta; memberikan kesempatan korporasi melanggar hak-hak pemulia benih, menjadikan subjek hukuman kriminal (penyitaan barang, penjara), tidak hanya hukuman sipil. -
13-dic-2016 Asian Peasant Coalition APC claims RCEP will intensify landgrabbing and militarization
Groups vow not to pass RCEP -
12-dic-2016 東アジア地域包括的経済連携（RCEP）参加国の市民社会による各国政府への公開書簡
RCEP に TPP のルールを入れてはならない -
5-dic-2016 Médecins Sans Frontières MSF press release: RCEP trade deal negotiators must reject terms that would harm access to medicines
International medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), along with other health groups, reiterated concerns about harmful intellectual property provisions in the proposed agreement that would increase market monopolies for pharmaceutical corporations and delay or block access to affordable generic medicines. -
30-nov-2016 Temp.co Jelang ASEAN RCEP, masyarakat sipil kirim surat terbuka
Jelang perundingan perdagangan bebas ASEAN RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) di Indonesia, organisasi masyarakat sipil dari berbagai negara mulai melayangkan protes kepada pemerintah di negara-negara yang akan menandatangani perjanjian tersebut. -
30-nov-2016 Carta abierta de la sociedad civil a los gobiernos de los 16 países del RCEP
Este es un llamamiento urgente de 316 organizaciones de la sociedad civil de los países de Asia y el Pacífico que negocian la Asociación Económica Regional Ampliada para que el contenido tóxico del TPPT no se incorpore al RCEP -
29-nov-2016 Civil society open letter to governments in the 16 RCEP countries
This is an urgent call by 316 civil society organisations from across the Asian and Pacific countries negotiating the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership to reject TPP rules in the RCEP -
18-nov-2016 Kompasiana Perundingan ’rahasia’ ASEAN RCEP
Ketertutupan informasi isi perundingan ASEAN RCEP bukanlah sebuah kebetulan. Ini sebuah kesengajaan dengan tujuan agar publik tidak tahu isi perundingan. Dan ketidaktahuan itu membuat publik tidak berpartisipasi dalam perundingan. -
28-oct-2016 People Over Profit Primer on RCEP and TPPA
FTAs operate as extensions of the WTO resulting in decentralized and yet intensifying attacks against workers and peasants across the different global regions. -
27-oct-2016 PSI Public sector unions to oppose Asia Pacific mega trade deal RCEP
On 12 October, the closing day of the Asia Pacific Regional Conference in Fukuoka, around 250 delegates representing more than 70 PSI affiliates from 18 countries resolved to intensify the struggle against the ambitious Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership under negotiation among 16 countries in the region. -
20-oct-2016 Bangkok Post Activists fret about RCEP impact
Access to affordable medicine and farmers’ control over seeds could be undermined by the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership being negotiated between Asean member countries and six other trade partners, says FTA Watch in Thailand -
17-oct-2016 The Jakarta Post Activists reject ratification of seed patent in ASEAN RCEP
An activist group is calling on the government to not ratify the ASEAN Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) clause on International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) 1991, saying that it will increase global corporations’ monopolistic control over small farmers. -
17-oct-2016 Tribun News Pemerintah Diminta Serius Lindungi Petani dari Ancaman Perdagangan Bebas
Bertepatan dengan Hari Pangan Sedunia, Koalisi Masyarakat untuk Keadilan Ekonomi meminta pemerintah serius melindungi petani dari ancaman Free Trade Agreement (FTA) atau Perjanjian Perdagangan Bebas khususnya ASEAN Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). -
17-oct-2016 Bisnis Indonesia Hadapi Asean RCEP, Pemerintah Diminta Serius Siapkan Strategi Perlindungan Petani
Bertepatan dengan Hari Pangan Sedunia, beberapa lembaga swadaya masyarakat yang tergabung dalam Koalisi Masyarakat untuk Keadilan Ekonomi mendesak pemerintah untuk serius melindungi petani dari ancaman FTA, khususnya ASEAN RCEP, dengan menyusun strategi perlindungan yang tepat bagi petani. -
17-oct-2016 An open letter to the sixteen governments negotiating the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
95 health, community and development organisations in the Asia Pacific region call on trade negotiators from sixteen countries in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement negotiations to ensure access to medicines is protected. We the undersigned organisations call on negotiators to protect health and reject all TRIPS plus intellectual property measures in the RCEP. -
13-oct-2016 Don’t trade our lives away Open letter to ambassadors (in India) of RCEP negotiating countries by Delhi Network of Positive People
Member countries must consider the impact of RCEP on access to medicines in developing countries
