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Why mining corporations love trade deals
22-Jun-2016 Huffington Post
From the salmon-spawning waters of Alaska to the cloud forests of Ecuador, communities are standing up to mining projects that threaten their health, environment, and livelihoods.
Churchill Mining says tribunal ruling expected in september
22-Jun-2016 Morning Star
Churchill Mining PLC said it has been informed a ruling on its ongoing tribunal with Indonesia is expected in September.
The evolving international investment law and policy regime: Ways forward
22-Jun-2016 ICTSD
How to encourage the flow of sustainable FDI for sustainable development? This article examines the state of the international investment law and policy regime and presents potential options for its reform.
Civil society in Latin America campaigns against Trans-Pacific Partnership
22-Jun-2016 Inter-Press Service
Civil society organisations from Chile, Mexico and Peru are pressing their legislatures and those of other countries not to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
Ukraine and Canada ink memorandum on export support, trade and investment
21-Jun-2016 Ukraine Today
Ukrainian officials expect to sign a free trade agreement with Canada on 11-12 July - during Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s official visit to Ukraine.
Time for EU to hold corporations to account
21-Jun-2016 Friends of the Earth Europe
Friends of the Earth Europe welcomes a reference to the UN process to establish binding rules that would force multinational corporations to respect human rights laws, but calls on the EU to start actively supporting this UN process.
Guatemala labor case drags on
21-Jun-2016 Politico
A long-running dispute over Guatemala’s compliance with the labor provisions in the Central American Free Trade Agreement won’t be resolved soon.
Italy to block democratic vote on CETA for 500 million Europeans, according to leaked letter
21-Jun-2016 Ars Technica
Italian minister claims credibility of EU as a "reliable trade partner" is at stake.
East African Community: EU to sign economic partnership agreement with Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda
21-Jun-2016 European Council
The Council authorised, on behalf of the EU, the signature and provisional application of the economic partnership agreement (EPA) between the EU and the East African Community (EAC)
Rural communities’ struggle against US-owned mine continues in Guatemalan Supreme Court
21-Jun-2016 Upside Down World
The long-running struggle of rural communities in Guatemala against the United States-based mining firm Kappes, Cassiday, and Associates (KCA) continues in Guatemala’s national courts.
Defending Pacific Ways of Life: A Social Impact Assessment of PACER-Plus
21-Jun-2016 PANG
Defending Pacific ways of life: A Peoples Social Impact Assessment of PACER-Plus, was commissioned by the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) to provide Pacific governments, negotiators, parliamentarians, civil society actors, customary landowners and the private sector with an alternative assessment to the impacts that PACER-Plus will have on the region.
EU woos Nigeria with N1.4tn EPA offer
20-Jun-2016 Nigeria Today
The European Union has asked Nigeria to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement with attractive offers including a €6.5bn (about N1.4tn) Development Programme.
Colombian campesinos: change the constitution, end ’free trade’
20-Jun-2016 Tele Sur
“We hold free trade agreements responsible for the bankruptcy of small producers, and we want them renegotiated”
Seoul prefers ISDS for its investment chapter but could consider ICS
20-Jun-2016 Vieuws
High-level South Korean diplomats have expressed their preference for the old investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system over the Investment Court System (ICS) in the framework of a future investment chapter in the EU-South Korea FTA.
Mining company threatens Guatemala with lawsuit in USA
20-Jun-2016 Prensa Latina
The Guatemala Mining Explorations (Exmingua) threatens with filing a lawsuit against Guatemala after being forced to suspend operations by decree of the Constitutional Court .
TISA ’free trade’ deal to force draconian social, environmental, financial deregulation
20-Jun-2016 The Ecologist
A leaked text from the ’Trade In Services Agreement’ negotiations shows that TISA is set to unleash a massive wave of deregulation affecting social, environmental and financial standards.
Member states to give greenlight to opening FTA talks with Indonesia
17-Jun-2016 Vieuws
EU member states are expected to give their formal greenlight to the opening of negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) with Indonesia.
Do the CETA CHECK
17-Jun-2016 Stop TTIP
Ask Members of the European Parliament about the planned free trade agreement between the EU and Canada (CETA). Let’s remove the secrecy behind CETA and bring the discussion out into the open!
New rules to regulate Europe’s hormone-disrupting chemicals
17-Jun-2016 The Guardian
European commission launches world’s first system for classifying and banning endocrine disruptors against a barrage of criticism
Investment act may clash with SADC treaty
17-Jun-2016 Business Day
Legal practitioners have been saying for some time now that SA’s Protection of Investment Act is not in sync with the country’s commitments under the Southern African Development Community Protocol on Finance and Investment.