El GISSAN planteó la necesidad de entender la Soberanía y Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional como un esfuerzo local, productivo, realizativo, de autonomía campesina y de defensa de la semilla criolla, frente a la embestida de los Tratados de Libre Comercio.
Millions of people in developing countries will lose their jobs under free trade plans which will be promoted by the Gordon Brown at next week’s G20 summit, a leading charity has warned.
Frente a la permanente vulneración de los derechos de los originarios de las comunidades alto andinas Kheswas de la regiones afectadas por la minería, concesión de recurso hídrico, se lanzo la exigencia de la derogatoria de las normas legales referente al privatización del agua y la tierra, y la preparación de un proyecto Ley de INCAS.
Un numeroso grupo de poetas se congregó en la plaza San Martín para protestar y exigir el cambio de la política mercantilista y servicial que tomó el gobierno ante el Tratado de Libre Comercio con Chile.
As the 6th round of negotiations related to the EU-India Free Trade Agreement got underway In Delhi today, the police detained several representatives of public interest groups during a peaceful protest in front of the office of the European Commission. Trade bureaucrats from the EC and Indian Commerce Ministry will deliberate on issues ranging from services, manufacturing, trade facilitation and government procurement till 19 March.
As the sixth round of negotiations related to the EU-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA) got underway on Tuesday, the police detained a couple of representatives of public interest groups during a peaceful protest in front of the office of the European Commission (EC).
Ahead of the three-day free trade negotiations between India and the European Union, starting on Tuesday, a campaign group led by trade unions and non-profit organizations have asked the government to halt the talks.
“La unidad e integración de Nuestra América está en nuestro horizonte y es nuestro camino”. Bajo esta perspectiva, movimientos sociales del hemisferio en la asamblea realizada el 30 de enero en Belem, Brasil, en el marco del FSM 2009, acordaron impulsar un proceso para “construir colectivamente un proyecto popular de integración latinoamericana, que replantee el concepto de ‘desarrollo’
Farmers, medium-sized and small businesses will lose out while capitalists will reap the most benefits if an Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement between Taiwan and China is signed. An ECFA is also a prelude to reunification.
Las autoridades regionales de Tacna y Cusco confirmaron su participación en las movilizaciones en contra del Acuerdo de Complementación Económica (ACE) con Chile, a realizarse los días 12,13 y 14 de marzo en departamentos del sur del país.
Universitarios, mujeres, panificadores y opositores al CAFTA han salido esta mañana a protestar por las calles de San Salvador, a menos de una semana de los comicios presidenciales.
El ministerio del Interior negó la autorización para realizar una manifestación pacífica en la Plaza Francia para este miércoles 11, que debía realizarse en protesta contra el TLC con Chile suscrito por el gobierno aprista.
New Zealand research and education network ARENA today welcomed news that the United States has postponed trade negotiations with New Zealand pending an overall review of US trade policy, and says that the New Zealand government should follow suit.
Taiwan’s main opposition party vehemently opposes President Ma Ying-jeou’s push for closer relations with China, including a proposed FTA. But the Democratic Progressive Party is so enfeebled that it can’t do much about it.
Around 350 US national, state and local groups from religious to environmental sectors, representing a combined total membership of 18 million, sent a letter to the House of Representatives asking lawmakers not to ratify the free trade agreement between Panama and the United States, insisting that Panama’s economy thrives on banking secrecy and money laundering
"Integración desde y para los pueblos y no para el lucro de las Transnacionales, sus TLC y Megaproyectos. No a los TLC con EE.UU. y la Unión Europea que dividen y destruyen a la CAN usando a las dictaduras de Álvaro Uribe y Alan García"
Activists from The Peace Cycle will cycle from the International Courts of Justice in the Hague to the European Parliament in Brussels, to hand-deliver this petition to the European Parliament on 31 March 2009.
In South America, serious pressure is building against the Israel-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement (FTA), threatening to derail it entirely. South American social movements, who have years of experience fighting against free trade, have integrated Palestine solidarity into their general work.
El Partido Nacionalista Peruano tiene listo el recurso de inconstitucionalidad contra el Tratado de Libre Comercio con Chile, que se pondrá en marcha a partir del próximo 1 de marzo, informó el congresista Juvenal Ordóñez.
Colombia’s national labour federations and major unions have condemned the free trade agreement (FTA) signed by the governments of Canada and Colombia last year.