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Advancing a new regulatory regime for TNCs and Investment: Towards a people’s international treaty
8-Aug-2013
Invitation to a round table at the European Paliament in Brussels on 5 September to deepen the debate on corporate Impunity, and introduce key elements in emerging alternatives to reclaim the public Interest and end TNC impunity
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A threat to democracy and food sovereignty
8-Aug-2013 Food First
This Backgrounder outlines the agreement’s assault on democracy and food sovereignty and examines the TPP’s likely impacts on food and agriculture in Japan, the latest country to join negotiations.
A guide to the TPPA–Why Bantah?
6-Aug-2013 Free Malaysia Today
The TPPA may be a free trade agreement in form, but it is an imperialist regulatory agreement in substance.
EU-Central America agreement : International statement
4-Aug-2013 LAMMP
European and Latin-American networks reiterate their recommendations to the European Union and its Member States, in view of the imminent provisional implementation of the commercial pillar of the Association Agreement with con Honduras, Panama and Nicaragua
Diverse international coalition launches alternative process to secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership talks
29-Jul-2013 Our Fair Deal
The Fair Deal Coalition has launched a new initiative that will give Internet users a platform to discuss what copyright should look like under the TPP.
To counter secret negotiations over TPP, coalition sets up open alternative
29-Jul-2013 Tech Dirt
In response to this unnecessary and dangerous secrecy, a bunch of organizations have set up the "Fair Deal Coalition," and set up a website that basically does what the TPP and TAFTA negotiators should have been doing all along: creating an open platform, letting any stakeholder discuss the kind of things that should go into such an agreement.
Association Agreement between EU and Central America enters into effect after ratification by El Salvador
22-Jul-2013 RMR
With the recent ratification by the Salvadorean members of the House of Representatives, the Association Agreement between Central America and the European Union (EU) will enter into effect on August 1st. The agreement has been strongly rejected by social organizations.
Malaysian socialists oppose Pacific free trade agreement
19-Jul-2013 GLW
The Socialist Party of Malaysia has no illusion about the true colours and intent of the TPPA/FTA as an agenda of US mega corporations.
Civil society groups call upon the Indian Government to reject US pressure on Economic Policies
12-Jul-2013
In an open letter to the Prime Minister of India, the Forum Against Free Trade Agreements in India has called upon the government to review its forthcoming economic engagements with the USA, and to reject pressure from the US government and business lobby groups on India’s economic policies.
Trans-Atlantic trade symposium
12-Jul-2013 You Tube
VIdeo recording of civil society symposium on the US-EU trade agreement negotiations
Help roll back corporate power over EU trade policy! Support CEO’s legal action!
10-Jul-2013 CEO
Corporate Europe Observatory needs your help to shine a light on these important agreements being negotiated in secret, with big business in the driving seat. Please help us create a more just and transparent EU trade policy.
S. Korean farmers hold massive rally against FTA with China
5-Jul-2013 Yonhap
Thousands of South Korean farmers and fishermen rallied Tuesday to oppose a potential free trade deal with China as the two countries kicked off a new round of negotiations to tear down trade barriers between two of Asia’s biggest economies.
Regional trade agreement more lopsided against Pacific
4-Jul-2013 Scoop
In the middle of July, Pacific Island Trade Ministers will meet in Samoa with their Australian and New Zealand counterparts to discuss whether or not to expand the negotiations of PACER-Plus to include services and investment, reports the Pacific Network on Globalisation.
Trans-Pacific trade deal threatens access to affordable medicines
3-Jul-2013 MSF
As host to both the AIDS conference and TPP trade talks this month, Malaysia reportedly vows to reject a TPP trade agreement that harms access to medicines; other countries should follow suit, and Malaysia should be held to its pledge
Impunity Inc.
26-Jun-2013 ODG
Through three case studies, "Impunity Inc." aims to provide inputs for reflection on the “super-rights” and “super-powers” of transnational corporations.
Harper government ’pleased’ with secret TPP investment session in Vancouver
19-Jun-2013 rabble.ca
Activists from the Washington and Oregon Fair Trade Coalitions, as well as Occupy Bellingham and the Backbone Campaign, who gathered in Bellingham this weekend for a TPP Action Camp, snapped into action when we all found out about the TPP meeting in Vancouver.
EU and US business to profit from the crisis?
14-Jun-2013 S2B
After the green light received from the Council, the European Commission will start negotiating an FTA with the US in July. It is already clear the concerns of civil society organisations, of the European Parliament and of Member States, will not be addressed.
Court ruling fails to stop business lobbies’ privileged access in EU-India trade talks
13-Jun-2013 CEO
In a ruling delivered on 7 June following a lawsuit by lobby watchdog Corporate Europe Observatory, the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg concludes that the European Commission did not violate EU rules when withholding information about the EU-India free trade talks from the public, even though it had already shared the information with corporate lobby groups
Investor privileges in EU-US trade deal threaten public interest and democracy
11-Jun-2013 TNI
This new briefing from CEO and TNI analyses leaked proposals for investor-state dispute settlement under the proposed EU-US FTA
Small B.C. First Nation challenging Canada-China free trade agreement
6-Jun-2013 The Province
Members of the Hupacasath First Nations, seen in 2008 at a forestry protest, are now challenging a Canada-China free trade agreement. Photograph by: Wayne Leidenfrost , PNG file photo