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Canada-EU trade deal: Trojan horse for contested ISDS?
9-May-2014     ETUC
The EU-Canada trade agreement – which may be concluded on May 8 at the Foreign Affairs Council – should not be used as a ‘Trojan horse’ to smuggle in a controversial Investor-to-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) warned the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC).
Privacy and the e-commerce chapter of the TPP
9-May-2014    
US proposals for free flow of information across borders and a ban on local server requirements could hamper other governments' ability to uphold national privacy laws and regulations for off-shored personal data
EU demands human rights clause linked to economic partnership agreement with Japan
9-May-2014     Japan Times
The European Union is insisting on a human rights clause linked to a proposed economic partnership agreement (EPA) with Japan. It allows Brussels to suspend the trade deal if Japan engages in human rights violations
Progressives unite in call against 'horrific' TPP
9-May-2014     Common Dreams
Hundreds of protesters rallied outside of the Capitol building in Washington DC on Wednesday to declare to the US government that "the entire progressive movement is united" in the call to reject unjust trade deals.
FSG calls on President to reject EPA
8-May-2014     GNA
Food Sovereignty Ghana (FSG), a body against genetically modified foods, has called on the Mahama Administration to reject the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) as it stands.
Vodafone initiates investment arbitration against India
8-May-2014     Live Mint
Vodafone Group Plc has abandoned the conciliation process and started international investment arbitration against the Indian government over its long-running tax dispute.
Over 120 injured in agrarian strikes: Interior Ministry
8-May-2014     Colombia Reports
Colombian authorities have announced that 61 policemen and 66 farmers have been injured as a result of recent confrontations during the ongoing nationwide agrarian strikes adding that they do not know who is using weapons.
Germans hold demo against US-EU free trade deal
8-May-2014     Press TV
Under the motto: "Civil society against the corporate-deal," members of more than 60 non governmental organizations demonstrate in Berlin against the free trade agreement between the European Union and the United States.
Canada knocks CARICOM ‘lack of ambition’ in trade talks
8-May-2014     Stabroek News
Less than two months remain to the agreed deadline for the conclusion of talks on a free-trade agreement between CARICOM and Canada, and the tensions are showing.
Colombia’s rural strikes expand as leftists, minorities and more farmers join
7-May-2014     Colombia Reports
One of Colombia’s largest leftist collective, farmers, indigenous people and Afro-Colombians, united in the so-called Agrarian Summit (Cumbre Agraria Campesina Etnica y Popular) has joined ongoing strikes carried out by farmers, miners and truckers in Colombia’s countryside.