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EU hits out at South Africa’s poultry dumping protest
3-Feb-2017 Global Meat News
The European Commission has expressed concern after hundreds of people protested in Pretoria, South Africa, against EU poultry dumping that has forced profit­-hit chicken processors to cut jobs.
Time to terminate trade & investment agreements allowing corporations to sue government
3-Feb-2017 Focus
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.
Indonesia bargaining position in EU CEPA is questionable
3-Feb-2017 IGJ
Press release from Indonesia civil society Coalition for Economic Justice regarding the second round of Indonesia-EU CEPA negotiations in Bali, Indonesia
Food sovereignty is the best safeguard against nationalism
3-Feb-2017 Potatoes don’t grow in supermarkets (blog)
Faced with the rise of nationalism and xenophobia, food sovereignty is more necessary than ever.
Putting human rights and investor obligations first
3-Feb-2017 TNI
We urge all stakeholders involved in the EU-Mexico FTA negotiations to replace the current far-reaching liberalisation and deregulation agenda with an agreement that regulates investment
Posisi tawar Indonesia dalam EU-CEPA dipertanyakan
1-Feb-2017 Okezone
Sejumlah kelompok masyarakat sipil yang tergabung dalam Masyarakat Sipil Untuk Keadilan Ekonomi mempertanyakan posisi tawaran Indonesia dalam perundingan perjanjian perdagangan bebas dengan negara Uni Eropa yang tergabung dalam Comprehensive Economic Parthenership Agreement (EU-CEPA).
As TPP crumbles, people must remain vigilant vs equally unfair bilateral deals
26-Jan-2017 People Over Profit
As the United States officially walks away from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the people must remain vigilant over possible replacements.
Malaysia should withdraw from the TPPA, according to CAP
26-Jan-2017 Malaysiakini
Given the new developments regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, Malaysia should withdraw from the agreement, stop implementing changes in domestic laws and policies designed to comply with it and not rush into negotiations with the US on a bilateral deal, says Consumers Association of Penang
Bill English’s Plan B for TPPA a political ‘own goal’ in election year
24-Jan-2017 Scoop
‘Donald Trump would be delighted! US corporations would get the benefit of all the controversial rules on medicine patents, copyright, investment, state-owned enterprises that the US insisted on without the US have to give a single thing in return.
Civil society letter of concern on the occasion of the 2nd round of negotiations for an EU-Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)
24-Jan-2017 IGJ
A call for a moratorium on the Indonesia-EU CEPA negotiations
Surat Terbuka Masyarat Sipil Terkait Putaran Kedua Perundingan Kerjasama Ekonomi Komprehensif Indonesia-Uni Eropa (I-EUCEPA)
24-Jan-2017 IGJ
Organisasi masyarakat sipil dari Indonesia, ASEAN, dan Eropa menyerukan tuntuan untuk mengadakan negosiasi ulang. Pertimbangan terhadap segi sosial, lingkungan, dan hak asasi manusia wajib diutamakan di atas perdagangan bebas dan pemberian perlindungan bagi industri transnasional.
#StopCETA: Thousands protest EU-Canada trade deal in demos across Europe
24-Jan-2017 RT
Protesters in more than a dozen European states have taken to the streets in scheduled demonstrations against the yet-to-be-approved CETA trade agreement
Groups from Mexico, Canada and the U.S. demand NAFTA replacement
18-Jan-2017 Citizens Trade Campaign
Any renegotiation process must be transparent and participatory, and that the resulting NAFTA replacement must improve peoples’ lives and livelihoods and protect the environment in all three countries.
Call to action! Let’s put a stop to the WTO’s agenda and to Free Trade Agreements and investment provisions!
11-Jan-2017 Argentina Better Without an FTA
Let’s build commercial relations that serve peoples’ interests and protect the environment! In 2017, let’s bring the ‘battle in Seattle’ to Buenos Aires!
Primer on EPAs
15-Dec-2016 People Over Profit
Under the EPAs, African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries will implement commitments way beyond what they already have agreed to in the WTO.
APC claims RCEP will intensify landgrabbing and militarization
13-Dec-2016 Asian Peasant Coalition
Groups vow not to pass RCEP
MSF press release: RCEP trade deal negotiators must reject terms that would harm access to medicines
5-Dec-2016 Médecins Sans Frontières
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.
Civil society open letter to governments in the 16 RCEP countries
29-Nov-2016
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
European and Canadian civil society groups call for rejection of CETA
29-Nov-2016 S2B
We, the undersigned civil society organisations from Canada and Europe, hereby express our deep concern about the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada.
Demise of TPP celebrated by global social movements
17-Nov-2016 TeleSur
Civil society movements across Asia, Latin America, Oceania, and North America announced that their seven-year strategic campaign had successfully derailed the Trans-Pacific Partnership