Search results « tisa »
-
20-Jun-2016 The Ecologist
TISA ’free trade’ deal to force draconian social, environmental, financial deregulation
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.
-
29-Nov-2016 Huffington Post
Some trade deals on hold after Trump’s election, but danger lurks in the lesser-known Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA)
Fair Traders who are celebrating the defeat of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) may see their hard work undone if the talks towards the proposed Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) continue under a Trump administration
-
30-May-2016 Huffington Post
The leaks go on: before another secret round of negotiations on the proposed “trade in services agreement (TiSA)”
The annexes would restrict the job-stimulating localization requirements; restrict how governments and professional associations regulate market access; affect notably the global Internet community of users and innovators.
-
12-Jun-2015 Red Latina Sin Fronteras
El TISA Y El TTIP: golpe de Estado económico mundial
El secretista tratado de libre comercio TTIP entre EEUU y la UE parecía imbatible como Caballo de Troya de las multinacionales. Pero en realidad es casi una cortina de humo para tapar la verdadera alianza neoliberal planetaria: el Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), un acuerdo todavía más antidemocrático de intercambio de servicios.
-
17-Jul-2015 The Wire
How the US is using a secret agreement on services to wriggle out of its WTO obligations
It is increasingly evident that the TiSA negotiations are an attempt to pressure developing countries to grant greater liberalisation in sectors of interest to the US and other industrialised countries, without the latter having to pay any price for it, writes Chakravarthi Raghavan
-
13-Jan-2017 AFTINET
Ten things you need to know about TiSA
While global attention has been focused on other trade deals, such as the failed TPP, governments and corporations have been working hard to push through the Trade in Services Agreement” (TiSA).
-
7-Oct-2016 SUNS
Asymmetrical ambition levels make TiSA talks outcome complicated
Prospects for an outcome in the controversial plurilateral talks on Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) by the end of this year appear grim and complicated.
-
2-Jun-2016 PSI
El TISA perjudica las acciones de la COP21, según un análisis del Anexo sobre la energía filtrado a la prensa
Greenpeace, sindicatos y Our World Is Not For Sale (OWINFS), la red sobre acuerdos de comercio internacional, advierten que el acuerdo de comercio que se está negociando en secreto, el TISA, perjudica las acciones encaminadas a frenar el cambio climático.
-
26-Aug-2015 TNI
How TiSA strolls off with our services
While TTIP is currently the center of attention, our world leaders discuss TiSA, an extensive service agreement meant to put (public) services, like the water supply, in the hands of the international market.
-
2-Jul-2015 Scoop
WikiLeaks releases Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Core Text
WikiLeaks has released a modern journalistic holy grail, the secret Core Text for the largest ’trade deal’ in history, the Trade In Services Agreement, one week before the next TiSA negotiating round
-
5-Oct-2017 EDRi
TiSA impact assessment report ignores crucial human rights concerns
A report to evaluate how TiSA’s provisions could affect economic, social and human rights, which was published in July 2017, fails to address several key fundamental rights concerns.
-
11-Jul-2017 ITF
Campaign reveals TiSA threat to jobs and rights
A new campaign to be launched by the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) reveals the threat to jobs and workers’ rights posed by the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA).
-
19-Apr-2016 SUNS
TISA plurilateral accord by year end?
Trade envoys of the United States, the European Union, and Australia among others decided to accelerate negotiations towards a plurilateral deal called the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) by the end of this year.
-
31-May-2016 PSI
TiSA undermines COP21 action says analysis of leaked annex on Energy
Greenpeace, trade unions and the global trade network Our World Is Not For Sale (OWINFS) claim TiSA is the latest secretly negotiated trade deal that undermines climate change action.
-
15-Dec-2017 AK Europa
AK EUROPA: Even economically, TiSA does not deliver what it promises
Even though the official negotiations on the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) are currently on hold, the questionable foundations of the economic impact assessments on TiSA have increasingly become the focus of attention.
-
13-Oct-2016 Australian Institute of International Affairs
Backdoor for investor-state disputes in TiSA
There is a loophole that may allow private investors to bring a dispute against states.
-
25-Mar-2015 OWINFS
¿Un Acuerdo Internacional sobre el Comercio de Servicios? (TISA)
Por qué este acuerdo de libre comercio de servicios es peligroso para la democracia, el desarrollo y el interés general y ¡Debemos Pararlo!
-
26-Feb-2018 IUF
The battle over TiSA: when everything is a service, a Trade in Services Agreement affects everyone
A new report reveals the scope of the corporate power grab through a close examination of TiSA’s potential impact on workers across the IUF sectors and TiSA’s broader implications for the labour movement, society and democratic governance.
-
12-May-2017 AJOT
Campaign reveals TiSA threat to jobs and rights
A new campaign to be launched by the International Transport Workers’ Federation reveals the threat to jobs and workers’ rights posed by the Trade in Services Agreement.
-
20-Oct-2016 TRNN
TiSA agreement leaks show corporations pushing privatization of public services
The latest leaks of teh Trade in Services Agreement show prohibitions on requiring foreign companies to employ local workers, says Deborah James
