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“India and Eu’s combined strategy for the free-trade pact worsen its position at WTO”
24-Jun-2009     Institute of International Trade
The most affected from the EU-India FTA will be India's dairy farming sector, where regularly five million women and 15 million men work to meet their daily needs.
Vicious sting in the tail of FTAs
24-Jun-2009     Business Standard
What is slowly emerging is the beginning of a composite oppositition to FTAs in India.
Murder in Peru: Indigenous rights and corporate interests
23-Jun-2009     COHA
Alan Garcia has gotten Peru into an incredibly difficult situation. It is only too likely that governments of nearby countries, like Colombia, will soon find themselves in similarly frustrating situations, whereby foreign investors’ intrinsic power would be equal to, or even greater than, the host government’s ability to legislate on the behalf of the population.
Jordan-Canada FTA 'in final stages'
23-Jun-2009     Jordan Times
"This is the fastest FTA we have ever negotiated," says Canada's ambassador in Amman.
RP set to ratify free-trade pact with Australia, New Zealand
22-Jun-2009     Business Mirror
While not part of the official AANZFTA negotiations, the Philippine government is preparing to ratify the free-trade agreement it signed as a member of ASEAN with the governments of Australia and New Zealand.
FTA between Panama and the United States: Re-negotiations imminent?
22-Jun-2009     Panama Star
US congressmen are pressuring Panama to reduce the number of people who can form a union from 40 to 20 and to give foreigners the right to head union organizations in Panama.
Human rights and BITs: Mapping the role of human rights law within investor-state arbitration
22-Jun-2009     Rights & Democracy
Investment treaties and free trade agreements offer few instructions as to how such agreements should be reconciled with human rights obligations of the state.
EPA: EU bows to pressure, moves deadline
22-Jun-2009     This Day
The European Union may have bowed to pressure from Nigeria and other African Caribbean and Pacific countries by shifting the commencement of the controversial Economic Partnership Agreement from the June 30 deadline to October 2009.
US trade freeze could be slowly thawing
21-Jun-2009     Reuters
After months of little US action on trade, there are signs the issue could become more important for President Barack Obama
Protest supports Peru’s Indigenous
21-Jun-2009     Workers World
Indigenous peoples, solidarity movement activists and environmentalists filled the sidewalks outside the Peruvian Consulate in New York June 10. It was New York’s turn to join the international solidarity movement that has sprung up since Peruvian President Alan Garcia ordered police to attack a demonstration of 5,000 Indigenous people in Peru’s Amazon region.