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Les peuples amérindiens mettent en garde sur la destruction de la Terre-Mère
31-Dec-2013     El Correo
Lors du « 5e Sommet continental », qui s’est tenu récemment dans le département du Cauca en Colombie, 4 000 représentants indigènes du continent américain ont exigé un arrêt des signatures de Traités Bilatéraux d’Investissement et d’Accords de Libre Échange qui créent des politiques d’expropriation de ressources naturelles et des règles permettant le pillage des biens et des cultures des peuples.
Envoy calls for free trade pact between Taiwan and Malaysia
31-Dec-2013     China Post
The Republic of China representative to Malaysia called on the Malaysian government to consider signing an economic cooperation agreement with Taiwan.
Mauritius keen to sign free trade accord
28-Dec-2013    
Mauritius is keen to develop economic relations with Pakistan and enter into a free-trade agreement (FTA) to tap the bilateral trade potential, Mauritius Deputy Prime Minister Dr Ahmad Rashid Beebeejaun said on Saturday.
LPG firm’s investor seeks compensation
28-Dec-2013    
A shareholder from the United Kingdom of the company Progas Pakistan has initiated international arbitration proceedings of $573 million against Pakistan for alleged expropriation of its LPG infrastructure in Karachi and the government has decided to vigorously contest the case.
Indigenous groups win right to seize Chevron’s Canadian sssets over $18 billion in Amazon pollution
28-Dec-2013     Democracy Now
A court in Canada has ruled Ecuadorean farmers and fishermen can try to seize the assets of oil giant Chevron based on a 2011 decision in an Ecuadorean court found it liable for nearly three decades of soil and water pollution near oil wells, and said it had ruined the health and livelihoods of people living in nearby areas of the Amazon rainforest.
EU-Mercosur talking across each other over trade agreement
27-Dec-2013     Buenos Aires Herald
After 31 months of talks, 2013 was supposed to mark the time when the European Union and the Mercosur bloc were going to present their respective offers for a free trade deal all sides claim to want. Yet 2013 will end as it began —without any concrete progress.
‘Havoc for palm oil sector’
27-Dec-2013     New Straits Times
Palm oil refiners, some of which are owned by the country’s largest conglomerates, may face a bleak future if Malaysia accedes to demand under free trade pacts to dismantle the crude palm oil (CPO) tax.
PH-EU free trade agreement may start talks in first quarter of 2014 - trade official Cristobal
27-Dec-2013     InterAksyon.com
The initial stages of negotiations for the Philippines-European Free Trade Agreement may start first quarter of 2014, Trade undersecretary Adrian Cristobal Jr. said.
Raw deal: How the Trans-Pacific Partnership could threaten our climate
27-Dec-2013     Sierra Club
"The broad implications of the TPP are that governments would lose ability to put in place policies to address the climate crisis while corporations would gain the ability to challenge climate and environmental laws and policies," writes the Sierra Club.
Open letter of civil society against investor privileges in TTIP
27-Dec-2013     Tlaxcala
Over 100 civil society groups and social movements from Europe and the USA have signed on an open letter that was sent to the chief negotiators of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership to voice one joint demand: to exclude any Investor-state Dispute Settlement mechanism from the TTIP