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US eyes minerals in occupied Western Sahara
18-Feb-2026     WSRW
Seeking to position itself as a key supplier of strategic minerals for Western powers, Morocco has signed a new agreement with the United States that covers Western Sahara’s waters and the critical minerals harboured there.
India NZ FTA fails the Interim Tiriti o Waitangi assessment
16-Feb-2026     Scoop
Usually at this stage of a trade negotiation, Ngā Toki Whakarururanga would have prepared a Tiriti o Waitangi assessment of the recently concluded free trade agreement between India and New Zealand, based on having confidential access to the negotiating text.
India’s trade policy shift in the EU and US trade deals: Serious implications for Indian citizens and its development pathway
13-Feb-2026     Forum for Fair Trade
Serious concerns have been raised about both the lack of transparency in the negotiation process and the potential long-term consequences of the agreements.
The battle over seeds in Latin America: the legal siege and people's response
13-Feb-2026     GRAIN
Corporate encroachment is increasingly disguised as legal protection. Under laws that allegedly safeguard seeds, doors are opened for their registration, certification, or privatisation.
Food is not a commodity: Mobilization in Bizkaia against EU-Mercosur free trade agreement
5-Feb-2026     La Via Campesina
A caravan of peasant farmers and ranchers with their tractors left from different parts of the province of Bizkaia in Bilbao (Spain) to Bilbao to express their rejection of the free trade policies being promoted by the European Union.
EU-Morocco Statement: autonomy without self-determination, law without lawfulness
5-Feb-2026     WSRW
A joint statement that came out of last week’s EU-Morocco Association Council asks readers to believe in a fiction: that an undefined autonomy plan imposed by an occupying power can satisfy the right to self-determination, and that respect for international law can coexist with the systematic ignoring of the EU’s own highest court.
Trade deals with El Salvador, Guatemala are gifts for tech CEOs
2-Feb-2026     Public Citizen
The Trump administration released a new “Agreement on Reciprocal Trade” with Guatemala, following the nearly identical one released yesterday with El Salvador.
Where is globalisation headed?
31-Jan-2026    
The shift in globalisation is not just a bump in the road. It signals a deep transformation of the world economy, its political balances and its power relations.
ISDS vs. the climate: How a colonial-era investment mechanism jeopardises a just transition
30-Jan-2026     CAN Europe
A little-known yet powerful legal mechanism is undermining the energy transition, by enabling fossil fuel companies to sue countries that take climate action.
The law of the jungle
29-Jan-2026     Tribune
Trump's destructive foreign policy not only reveals the emptiness of the liberal 'rules-based order', but announces a new approach built on military might and open corporate power.