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Vote on disputed CETA trade agreement sparks controversy
7-May-2020 RTL
The impending vote has sparked anger from environmental organisations. Stop TTIP/CETA and Votum Klima for instance called the vote a political scandal.
EU-Mexico agreement: Serious concerns for European civil society
30-Apr-2020 Global Campaign
European civil society organisations are deeply concerned about the renewal of the European Union-Mexico trade agreement.
Stop all trade and investment treaty negotiations during COVID-19 crisis and focus on access to medical supplies and saving lives
22-Apr-2020 Friends of the Earth International
An open letter to Trade Ministries and the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
Guatemalan water protectors persist, despite mining company threats
27-Mar-2020 Inequality.org
The hard work of protecting water and land from the long-term harms associated with gold and silver mining takes place daily on the frontlines of tenacious struggles throughout Latin America and around the world.
’Corporate courts’ and post-Brexit trade deals
11-Mar-2020 The Ecologist
An alliance of civil society groups has delivered nearly 70,000 signatures calling on the UK government to commit to keeping controversial ‘corporate courts’ out of post-Brexit trade deals.
What Deputy PM Somkid didn’t say: disasters loom large as Thai government eager to join CPTPP
3-Mar-2020 FTA Watch
FTA Watch and Thai civil society slammed government’s attempt to push Thailand into CPTPP FTA while the country have no negotiating power; risking negative impacts on Thai small farmers, rights over seeds and breeds, and access to medicine.
Protest condemning free trade agreement between India and US
25-Feb-2020 City Today
A protest was staged to condemn the free trade agreement between India and United States of America in the fields of animal husbandry, poultry and other sectors.
Civil society groups oppose India-US MoU on intellectual property rights
24-Feb-2020 Business Today
Civil society groups want the contents of the MoU to be made public before its finalisation to ensure that India resists US demands to influence the implementation of India’s IP legislations.
Farmers’ coalition threatens agitation if India goes ahead with US trade deal
14-Feb-2020 BusinessLine
A farmers’ coalition, which represents millions of farmers nationwide, has urged the Government to desist from negotiating an interim trade deal with the US, saying it would be detrimental to the interests of Indian farmers.
Swiss communists support “STOP Palm Oil” referendum against the FTA with Indonesia
13-Feb-2020 Peoples Dispatch
The Swiss parliament ratified a Free Trade Agreement between the European Free Trade Association and Indonesia, allegedly without addressing the environmental concerns regarding Indonesian palm oil production.
Resisting RCEP from the ground up: Indian movements show the way
10-Feb-2020 GRAIN
The six year long mobilisation led by farmers movements and trade unions have made it amply clear that rural India cannot be taken for a ride any more.
NFU to lead food standards rally in Westminster
29-Jan-2020 Poultry News
Hundreds of farmers from across the country will gather in London in March to join the NFU in a rallying call to Government, urging them to commit that future UK trade policy will not allow imports of food produced to standards that would be illegal in the UK.
“A la carte” justice for transnational corporations?
13-Jan-2020 CCFD-Terre Solidaire
At a time when 3,400 trade and investment agreements protect the interests of transnational corporations, there is no international treaty requiring them to uphold human rights and environmental protection.
People power in Romania stopped a mining project. now the corporation is suing for billions of dollars
17-Dec-2019 Inequality.org
Romanian and US environmental justice activists demonstrated in Washington, DC, outside a World Bank tribunal hearing on a case brought by Canadian-based Gabriel Resources.
Open letter on the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT)
9-Dec-2019 ECT’s Dirty Secrets
We – 278 environmental, climate, consumer, development, and trade related civil society groups, as well as trade unions – believe that the ECT is incompatible with the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement.
Civil society seeks reforms to stem trade suits losses
9-Dec-2019 The East African
Civil society groups are now calling on governments to reform their investor state dispute settlement because “it is being unfairly used by investors to sue states for millions of dollars.”
Jailed journalist urges EU not to ratify FTA with Vietnam
4-Dec-2019 Radio Free Asia
Pham said of human rights in particular, it would go against the EU’s founding principles to condone the human rights record of Vietnam through the EVFTA.
After RCEP, farmers’ body seeks termination of existing FTAs
4-Dec-2019 The Hindu
After prevailing upon the Centre to drop out of the RCEP treaty, farmers organizations has urged the MPs to prevail upon the Union government to terminate the other existing FTA inimical to the livelihood of farmers in the country.
German farmers plan for Berlin tractor protest next week
20-Nov-2019 AgriLand
Farmers’ group outlined its concerns including the Mercosur trade deal, which it says “threatens the supply of safe, high-quality and certified food from the region with low-priced imports."
Amulsar uncertainty continues: A local activist and diaspora armenians share their concerns
18-Nov-2019 HETQ
Roads to the Amulsar gold mine have been closed for a year and a half by residents of neighboring communities opposed to the mine operated by Lydian who is considering international arbitration.