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Avoid changing TPP-related laws that damage the health of Malaysians
22-May-2017 CAP
The Consumers’ Association of Penang calls on the Malaysian government not to make changes to the law relating to intellectual property rights to comply with the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.
Labor groups raise grave concerns over RCEP
9-May-2017 Focus on the Global South
Representatives from major trade unions in both the public and private sectors have raised serious concerns on the possible impacts of the Regional Economic Comprehensive Partnership Agreement (RCEP) which is currently being negotiated in Manila.
MSF response on RCEP negotiations in the Philippines
8-May-2017 MSF
Negotiators must protect public health safeguards that enable developing countries like India to keep supplying life-saving affordable medicines for millions of people worldwide.
Stop trading workers’ rights over profits
8-May-2017 Forum on FTAs
RCEP magnifies existing inequalities and discriminates against women, indigenous peoples, people living with HIV or other illnesses, people with disabilities,rural communities, farmers and workers
Asia Pacific CSOs get ready for No RCEP week of action with release of video
4-May-2017 APWLD
Civil society groups say no to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
Guide to PACER-Plus
2-May-2017 Fiji Times
A new guide allows Pacific Islanders to better understand the impacts of the recently concluded and controversial regional Free Trade Agreement, known as PACER-Plus.
Employment crisis and free trade agreements( FTAs) : Why workers should reject RCEP
27-Apr-2017 Forum against FTAs
Trade unions, farmers groups, health activists, and other people’s movements are planning to organise a series of events to put pressure on the Government of India to withdraw from RCEP negotiations.
USW, Unite march in solidarity with Mexican steelworkers
24-Apr-2017 USW
After three decades of NAFTA, Mexican workers are still denied basic rights.
India: People’s groups reject RCEP
4-Apr-2017 Forum against FTAs
Around 100 representatives of people’s movements from southern Indian states gathered at the Indian Social Institute, Bangalore from 2-3 April to discuss the implications of the proposed mega free trade agreement - Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).
“The most remarkable rejection of free trade you’ve never heard of”
1-Apr-2017 The Mint
Africans are insisting on actual economic development which is leaving European trade negotiators exasperated. Rick Rowden explains why their stand is historic and right.
South India: Workshop - Understanding RCEP and its implications
30-Mar-2017 La Via Campesina
A workshop is being convened in early April to build collective capacities on trade agreements in general and RCEP in particular. The workshop will be held in Bangalore, a city in South India
IBON tells DENR to be firm vs big miners
29-Mar-2017 Business Mirror
Mining firms should not resort to international arbitration in forcing the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to revoke its decision to suspend 28 mines and cancel 75 mineral-production sharing agreements.
Secretive EU-Japan trade deal to be finalised away from public eye
22-Mar-2017 S2B
Joint civil society statement on the Eu-Japan free trade agreement.
Anti-TPP protesters clash with riot police in Chile
15-Mar-2017 Tele Sur
Riot police clashed with protesters in Viña Del Mar, where representatives of the 11 remaining member states of the Trans Pacific Partnership together with China, Colombia and South Korea met.
Chileans protest bid to revive embattled TPP after Trump’s exit
15-Mar-2017 Tele Sur
Activists have a message for trade ministers meeting in Chile: the TPP is dead.
Open letter to trade ministers meeting in Chile, 14-15 March 2017
10-Mar-2017 Public Citizen
We believe it is not acceptable for TPP rules to be used as a model for future trade negotiations.
The EAC-EU EPA: Tanzania is raising pertinent issues
4-Mar-2017 SEATINI
Tanzania is reluctant to sign and ratify the EPA raising a number of issues including the implications of the EPA on EAC’s development in general and industrialisation in particular.
RCEP investment chapter presents a grave threat to access to medicines
3-Mar-2017 MSF
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
Resist RCEP and corporate trade deals- Trade Justice Pilipinas
1-Mar-2017 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.
Statement of public interest principles for copyright protection under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
28-Feb-2017 Info Justice
Civil Society Statement concerning about the copyright protection standards proposed for the RCEP IP Chapter.