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The people of Asia against free trade: “society endures the trauma of debt”
13-Sep-2021     Capire
The struggle against free trade has been strategic for social movements, especially La Via Campesina, which has actually built a proposal for food sovereignty to counter the capitalist free trade model for agriculture.
Indonesian civil society urged the Government to be cautious in taking position in Indonesia-EU CEPA negotiations related to Omnibus Law
6-Sep-2021     Indonesia for Global Justice
In the process of developing negotiations, there are new policies issued by the two countries, such as the Job Creation Law (Omnibus Law) which was passed by Indonesia in 2020, and the EU New Trade Policy which was issued in February 2021, and these policies seem to have an impact on the IEU CEPA discussion.
Companies cannot use ECT to sue governments for climate progress, top court says
2-Sep-2021     Client Earth
Environmental organisations have hailed a court decision that could mean the end of a little-known legal mechanism that poses a massive threat to climate action.
Brussels: Nest of lobbyists
1-Sep-2021     bilaterals.org
Interview with Lora Verheecke, a researcher specialising in trade and lobbying.
Urgent mobilisation against the signing of the Samoa Agreement to succeed the Cotonou Agreement
27-Aug-2021     SOL
The agreement was concluded between the chief negotiators (foreign or trade ministers) in December 2020 and initialled on 15 April 2021 in Samoa.
African social movements demand that AU suspends undemocratic and pro-industry seed and GMO guidelines and processes
26-Aug-2021     ACBio
More than 50 African groups denounce how the African Union is using the African Continental Free Trade Area as a justification to push the seed harmonisation agenda.
Why a hasty trade deal may not be good for us – or for the environment
26-Aug-2021     Friends of the Earth
What precedent might be set by the new Australia trade deal and what could it tell us about the future for UK environmental standards?
Death by a thousand treaties
20-Aug-2021     The Ecologist
Governments must urgently terminate all international investment treaties in force, in particular the Energy Charter Treaty, and stop negotiating new ones.
Blockading global Green New Deals
19-Aug-2021     The Ecologist
Tackling trade and investment agreements must be an essential step in achieving justice-oriented action on climate change, health inequities and economic injustice.
French airport investors make good on earlier threat to bring treaty-based claims against Chile in relation to reduced air traffic during the COVID pandemic
17-Aug-2021     IA Reporter
Two French airport companies, Aeroports de Paris (ADP) and Vinci Airports, have initiated treaty-based arbitration proceedings against Chile, invoking the Chile-France bilateral investment treaty (BIT).