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Regional investment policy framework on the cards
12-Oct-2015    
A regional investment policy framework for southern Africa is expected to be finalized by the end of the year. The Trade, Industry, Finance and Investment (TIFI) Directorate at the SADC Secretariat said in its annual report that significant progress has been made to develop a regional investment policy framework. The regional programme on investment has the objective of strengthening the investment environment in southern Africa.
Public services under attack through TTIP and CETA
12-Oct-2015     CEO
EU trade deals with Canada and the US could endanger citizens’ rights to basic services like water and health, as negotiators are doing the work of some of the EU’s most powerful corporate lobby groups in pushing an aggressive market opening agenda in the public sector.
Berlin anti-TTIP trade deal protest attracts hundreds of thousands
12-Oct-2015     The Guardian
Environmental groups, charities and opposition parties who organised protest against free trade deal between the EU and US say 250,000 people took part
Numerous side deals to accompany final TPP trade agreement, say officials
10-Oct-2015     The Hamilton Spectator
Canada could sign as many as 15 side deals on a range of issues when the time comes to ink the final text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Preliminary comments on the completed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) intellectual property chapter
10-Oct-2015     AFTINET
The TPP’s intellectual property chapter represents nothing less than a disaster for global health. Many harmful provisions still remain in the final chapter, bearing out the concerns of public health advocates.
The final leaked TPP text is all that we feared
10-Oct-2015     Electronic Frontier Fondation
The release of the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement.
TPP - intellectual property chapter (October 2015)
9-Oct-2015     Wikileaks
As leaked by Wikileaks
Canada has an ISDS clause with the US. It has faced 35 challenges. Is this Australia’s future?
9-Oct-2015     The Conversation
Up until now, Australia has never agreed to provide American investors with access to Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), whereas Canada has. In total Canada has faced 35 challenges. Australia has been subjected to only one case.
Legal experts weigh in on TPP
9-Oct-2015     Australasian Lawyer
Law firms are among the many Australian businesses likely to benefit from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Doctors without borders blasts TPP's impact on life-saving drugs
9-Oct-2015     AJ+
The TPP could give pharmaceutical corporations more power to control medicine markets and “impose higher prices for longer.”