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209 Civil Society Organisations say: EU trade deals must not undermine democratic rights
24-Nov-2022     S2B Network
We civil society organizations vehemently oppose the splitting of trade deals, which would circumvent existing concerns about the negative implications of these deals on biodiversity, climate change and human rights issues.
US may face $15 billion penalty for rejection of Keystone XL pipeline
22-Nov-2022     Public Citizen
The Keystone XL pipeline sparked a movement of activism to put people and the climate over Big Oil. After more than a decade of relentless protests and legal battles, President Joe Biden halted the dangerous pipeline on his first day in office.
The US-driven Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) for Prosperity: TPPA in drag or a vacuous vanity project?
16-Nov-2022     Foreign Control Watchdog
When the US launches a high level and concerted re-branding exercise, something big is happening. The latest target is the “Asia-Pacific” region, now to be known as the “Indo-Pacific”.
Statement on ISDS and climate
15-Nov-2022     https://sites.google.com/view/isds-and-climate/en
Civil society organisations are calling on governments to remove the threat that ISDS poses to the climate. The following statement outlines our primary concerns and demands. We seek to put pressure on our governments as they meet at COP 27 in November 2022.
What Lula’s victory in Brazil should mean for the EU-Mercosur trade deal
3-Nov-2022     Greenpeace
After Bolsonaro, the European Commission, as well as some governments and industries in Europe will see an opportunity to push through the EU-Mercosur trade deal. But the agreement would be the exact opposite of what the Amazon needs.
MSF responds to UK's disastrous proposal on intellectual property in UK-India Free Trade Agreement
2-Nov-2022     MSF
UK IP demands contain provisions that would drastically harm access to affordable, lifesaving generic medicines from India, upon which millions of people around the world rely.
Free trade agreements: Mexico. How to get out of corporate submission?
17-Oct-2022     GRAIN
We have produced a detailed study/story of NAFTA, with its eternal wake of treatises and agreements, its effects, and the tools to analyse and organise resistance against the impacts of FTAs.
Asia-Pacific women groups gather in Bangkok and discuss digital trade
4-Oct-2022     bilaterals.org
Women in the Asia and Pacific discussed FTAs and agricultural digitalisation impacting women.
The false makeup for the TPP-11: the “side letters”
4-Oct-2022     América Latina Mejor Sin TLC
The impacts that TPP-11 will have then must be analyzed in an integral way, not by chapters. For years now, from various academic and social sectors, we have been explaining that agreements such as the TPP-11 are negative in their entirety.
LNP secrecy deal for Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) challenges Labor policy for trade transparency
4-Oct-2022     AFTINET
The US Trade Representative Office has confirmed that it signed secrecy agreements with Australia and 12 other members of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework in April 2022.