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IBON tells DENR to be firm vs big miners
Mining firms should not resort to international arbitration in forcing the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to revoke its decision to suspend 28 mines and cancel 75 mineral-production sharing agreements.
Secretive EU-Japan trade deal to be finalised away from public eye
Joint civil society statement on the Eu-Japan free trade agreement.
Anti-TPP protesters clash with riot police in Chile
Riot police clashed with protesters in Viña Del Mar, where representatives of the 11 remaining member states of the Trans Pacific Partnership together with China, Colombia and South Korea met.
Chileans protest bid to revive embattled TPP after Trump's exit
Activists have a message for trade ministers meeting in Chile: the TPP is dead.
Open letter to trade ministers meeting in Chile, 14-15 March 2017
We believe it is not acceptable for TPP rules to be used as a model for future trade negotiations.
The EAC-EU EPA: Tanzania is raising pertinent issues
Tanzania is reluctant to sign and ratify the EPA raising a number of issues including the implications of the EPA on EAC’s development in general and industrialisation in particular.
RCEP investment chapter presents a grave threat to access to medicines
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) raises concerns over provisions under negotiation in the RCEP investment chapter that threaten to restrict access to affordable medicines for millions of people
Resist RCEP and corporate trade deals- Trade Justice Pilipinas
Trade Justice Pilipinas a broad platform campaigning for just trade and investment policies expresses its opposition to international economic agreements like Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) and other new generation FTAs that advance corporate agenda over peoples rights and welfare.
Statement of public interest principles for copyright protection under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
Civil Society Statement concerning about the copyright protection standards proposed for the RCEP IP Chapter.
Pressure grows on mining giant to pay $8 million to El Salvador
Over 280 organizations from around the world sent an open letter to Canadian-Australian mining giant OceanaGold demanding that the company adhere to an earlier ruling that ordered the company to pay the government of El Salvador US$8 million