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Argentina in the maze of international arbitration: a record number of arbitration claims and new concessions for investors
20-Nov-2025 ISDS impacts
For over 20 years, Argentina had the world’s highest number of investor claims before international arbitration tribunals. It also has the highest number of bilateral investment treaties in force in Latin America and the Caribbean.
EU adopts Digital Trade Agreement with Singapore despite warnings: a setback for digital rights and democratic oversight
20-Nov-2025 EDRi
This decision weakens the Union’s capacity to safeguard privacy, data protection, and accountability over software systems, at a time when deregulation pressures are increasing across Europe.
UK being sued by billionaire Russian oligarch in ‘secret corporate court’
20-Nov-2025 Global Justice Now
The UK government is being sued by a billionaire Russian oligarch in a secret corporate court, it has been revealed.
‘COP30 must declare an end to ISDS’, delegates told
18-Nov-2025 Global Justice Now
Campaigners launched a new initiative to phase out ‘corporate courts’ which are now a “major impediment to climate action.”
Webinar: Breaking down Trump’s trade attacks & global solidarity efforts
12-Nov-2025 OWINFS & ETJC
Join us in calling on governments to stop appeasing Trump. Learn how your work fits into this movement and how you can join us in pushing for resistance and creating a better world.
Malaysia-US pact surrenders Malaysia’s sovereignty
11-Nov-2025 Sahabat Alam Malaysia
The Malaysia-US trade agreement is widely criticized by organizations like Sahabat Alam Malaysia and the Comsumer’s Association of Penang for undermining national sovereignty, forcing Malaysia to align with US foreign policy, accept unverified US health standards, and forgo vital fiscal tools like digital taxes and border tax adjustments.
Migrant justice groups call for USMCA overhaul to stop displacement and protect the rights of migrant workers
10-Nov-2025 Public Citizen
Public Citizen joined prominent migrant justice organizations in calling for the agreement, as well as immigration policies, to be rewritten to prioritize human rights, labor protections, and climate resilience.
Joint declaration of the national gathering – advocacy assembly on the USMCA
7-Nov-2025
From our diverse backgrounds, we reaffirm our conviction that Mexico is an independent country that places life, dignity, and sovereignty above profit and the imposition of corporate interests.
Pressure mounts on UK to join coordinated exit from secretive corporate court system, during COP30
7-Nov-2025 Global Justice Now
Civil society coalition will hold press conference and side event at COP30 to urge governments to go ‘ISDS free’ to protect sovereign climate policy
CUSMA 2.no
6-Nov-2025 CCPA
Canada should strive for fair trade in North America—not agree to another bad deal on Trump’s terms.
Petrogas sues the Netherlands over fiscal measures meant to protect the public interest
5-Nov-2025 SOMO
SOMO and Both ENDS strongly condemn the newly revealed investor-state dispute settlement case filed by Petrogas, an Omani oil and gas company operating two shallow-water gas fields in the Dutch North Sea, against the Netherlands.
Is Canada prepared to ignore alarming human rights violations to advance a controversial free trade agreement with Ecuador?
3-Nov-2025 The Hill Times
The Canadian government must not remain indifferent to the bloodshed and the incontrovertible reality of a grave human rights crisis in Ecuador.
Trump’s secret trade deals with Malaysia and Cambodia revealed: Imperialist bullying on behalf of Big Tech, other corporate interests
30-Oct-2025 Public Citizen
An early review of the texts reveals new handouts to Big Tech and other corporate interests, with little to nothing that will help working people in the US.
Gulf trade deal could ‘lock in’ more rights for fossil fuel industry, campaigners warn
28-Oct-2025 Global Justice Now
UK government reported to be demanding corporate courts as a red line in deal with six Gulf countries.
New bilateral safeguard clauses on EU-Mercosur FTA: an ineffective technical proposal against the structural and localised impact of the treaty
27-Oct-2025 European Coordination Via Campesina
Although the European Commission presents these clauses as a safety mechanism to protect farmers, they are designed never to be activated.
Did Trump steal our agenda? Why fighting free trade isn’t enough anymore
21-Oct-2025 TNI
As the European Trade Justice Coalition marks 25 years, this reflection asks an unsettling question: how did the right appropriate the language of anti-globalization? It calls on activists to rethink trade, the state, and strategy for a new cycle of struggle.
Method to the madness: How Trump’s chaotic trade agenda benefits big tech
17-Oct-2025 Public Citizen
A close examination of the dizzying chaos surrounding President Trump’s tariff threats and secretive “trade deals” shows a disturbing throughline: this is nothing but a shakedown on behalf of Big Tech.
Not a border crisis, but a “free trade” crisis
17-Oct-2025 Public Citizen
A new report unpacks how decades of corporate-led trade agreements have displaced millions of people, stripping them of their livelihoods and forcing them to migrate to survive.
Revised EU-Morocco trade agreement: ECVC denounces this agreement which goes against the CJEU ruling and will defend the rights of European and Moroccan peasants in solidarity with the Saharawi people
16-Oct-2025 ECVC
ECVC denounces the steps taken by the European Commission and Morocco regarding the EU-Morrocco trade agreement, as they try at all costs to save the interests of a minority of transnational corporations and foreign investors at the expense of the Saharawi people and Moroccan and European peasants.
ETJC statement on Clean Trade and Investment Partnerships (CTIPs)
13-Oct-2025 European Trade Justice Coalition
These fast track trade deals risk serving the business interests of transnational corporations instead of contributing to more sustainable trading relationships.