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5-Feb-2016 MSF
MSF open letter to ASEAN governments: Don’t trade away health
MSF urges all ASEAN member states to lead an effort to reject the ratification and implementation of the TPP and the expansion of its negative consequences for public health in the whole region. -
5-Feb-2016 ISC
Food is not a commodity
Kim-Hwang Kyeongsan, General Secretary of the Korean Woman Peasants’ Association, explains the government’s recent rice policy that hurts rice farmers and impacts Korea’s food sovereignty and how FTAs make it worse. -
5-Feb-2016 FT
As Pacific trade deal is signed pharma holds key to US ratification
One immediate obstacle to getting the Trans-Pacific Partnership through US Congress lives in Jan Kemper’s laboratory an hour’s drive from the White House. -
4-Feb-2016 Electronic Frontier Foundation
Trade officials sign the TPP but it’s still up to lawmakers to reject it
While trade leaders tout the signature of the agreement today, the TPP continues to attract international criticism. -
4-Feb-2016 Al Jazeera
Controversial TPP pact signed amid New Zealand protests
One of the biggest and most controversial trade deals in history was signed on Thursday by ministers from the Asia-Pacific region and the Americas, as hundreds of protesters hit the streets of Auckland to denounce it. -
3-Feb-2016 DRB
Opinion on the establishment of an investment tribunal in TTIP
The German Magistrates Association rejects the proposal of the European Commission to establish an investment court within the framework of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. -
3-Feb-2016 AK
The planned regulatory cooperation between the European Union and Canada and the USA according to the CETA and TTIP drafts
This legal opinion focuses on the institutionalized regulatory cooperation envisaged in CETA and TTIP. -
3-Feb-2016 The Star
M’sia-EU FTA likely to conclude soon
After a five-year process, negotiations for a Malaysia-European Union Free Trade Agreement is expected to conclude. -
3-Feb-2016 The Independent
This secret UK-Eurotunnel tribunal reveals something disturbing about refugees and TTIP
Other infamous examples of ISDS include Philip Morris, the tobacco giant, suing the Australian government for introducing plain cigarette packaging -
3-Feb-2016 The Ecologist
Brussels biotech lobby’s last push for ’GM 2.0’ technologies to escape regulation
With TTIP negotiations proceeding apace, environmental and sustainable farming groups must stay actively protect our hard-won - albeit imperfect - GM laws. -
3-Feb-2016 OHCHR
UN expert urges Pacific Rim countries not to sign the TPP without committing to human rights and development
UN human rights expert called on Governments not to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) without reaffirming their human rights treaty obligations and their recent pledges to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. -
2-Feb-2016 Live Mint
India-EU FTA talks’ revival likely to be delayed
Deal’s fate rests on ‘talks about talks’ between senior officials as EU demands greater flexibility on imports. -
2-Feb-2016 The Japan Times
The future of rice farming in Japan
There is growing concern among Japanese farmers that the country’s rice-producing capabilities are diminishing in the face of international trade pacts such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. -
2-Feb-2016 Khmer Times
AEC not so sweet a deal: sugar exporter
The sweet promise that the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) would pave the way for a single market among the 10-member bloc of more than 600 million people at the end of last year has so far excluded sugar exports from Cambodia. -
2-Feb-2016 The Nation
RCEP to seek tariff pact by year-end
Officials from 16 countries will try to wrap up negotiations by the end of 2016 on integration in trade, services and investment under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). -
2-Feb-2016 Ukrinform
Ukraine to sign a free trade agreement with Canada this year
Ukraine will sign a free trade agreement with Canada and will accelerate relevant talks with Turkey and Israel. -
1-Feb-2016 War on Want
TTIP transparency ’farce’ as Germany opens MP reading room
German MPs will be granted restricted access to documents from secret EU-US trade negotiations. Access to the documents will only be possible under supervision. -
1-Feb-2016 The Globe and Mail
For Canadian innovators, will TPP mean protection – or colonialism?
Despite Canada’s 14 new free-trade deals, Canada posted record trade deficits and shrinking exports throughout 2015 as prices for tangible commodities fell. -
1-Feb-2016 AFL-CIO
Look to Honduras for reasons the TPP will fail
The U.S. government claims the labor protections in the Trans-Pacific Partnership are “gold standard,” but we need to look no further than Honduras to see how inadequate and unenforced labor obligations endanger workers’ lives. -
1-Feb-2016 Tele Sur
TPP protesters alarmed by corruption, urge leaders not to sign
Bribery allegations against Japan’s lead TPP negotiator have sparked public concerns that corruption may have influenced the corporate-friendly deal.