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30-Aug-2012 Infojustice 18 Thai civil society groups urge EU Parliament delegation to reconsider TRIPS-plus provisions in EU-Thailand FTA
The letter warns that the TRIPS-Plus provisions in the trade agreement between EU and Thailand – including border measures, data exclusivity, patent term extensions, and protection for new indications – would block access to generic medicines. -
29-Aug-2012 RECALCA Colombia: ¡No al tratado de libre comercio con la UE! Pedido de adhesión al llamamiento
Defendemos unas relaciones comerciales basadas en la complementariedad y el desarrollo inclusivo de las regiones desde un enfoque de derechos; creemos que el Tratado de Libre Comercio negociado por la UE con Perú y Colombia, y propuesto para Ecuador y Bolivia, va en una dirección contraria... -
24-Aug-2012 India Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (InCACBI) InCACBI Statement on India-Israel Free Trade Agreement
We, a group of academics, activists and artists in India, came together in 2010 to campaign against yet another apartheid regime by extending support to the international campaign for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. -
22-Aug-2012 WSJ Anti-free traders to copy anti-nuke protestors in weekly Tokyo demos
The Japanese prime minister’s office — for months the scene of weekly anti-nuclear protests in Tokyo — got a new group of demonstrators on Tuesday: A group protesting Japan’s proposed participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP. -
15-Aug-2012 Fair trade group condemns big tobacco’s use of trade agreements to continue plain packaging fight after High Court defeat
“We welcome the High Court decision as a vindication of the Government’s right to regulate tobacco as an addictive substance that still kills 15,000 Australians per year,” Dr Patricia Ranald, Convener of the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network, said today. -
9-Aug-2012 WSJ Ex-GM workers in Colombia sew lips shut in protest
The former GM workers chose the grounds next to the US Embassy to stage their hunger strike because of the labor action plan agreed to between Colombia and the US last year under the countries’ free trade agreement — which both governments, and General Motors, have igored.
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5-Aug-2012 IPS Assault on Colombian trade unions continues
Two months after a free trade agreement between the US and Colombia went into effect, workers continue to face attacks.
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1-Aug-2012 TNI Video documentary: Global crises, regional solutions
In this video, activists from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe argue that regional integration is the only viable response to the current economic, climate, food and energy crises.
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31-Jul-2012 AIC Palestinian youth reject EU hypocrisy in upgrading relations with Israel
The Palestinian youth are tired of the EU’s hypocrisy and contemptuous policies that use aid and development programs to mask political cowardice and complicity in Israel’s crimes -
30-Jul-2012 PCHRO EU fails to uphold international law with Israel
As organizations dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), we are strongly concerned about the EU’s lack of commitment to human rights in light of what is essentially an intensification of bilateral relations with Israel. -
26-Jul-2012 IPS Protesters: Free trade deals, drug patents derail AIDS fight
As the nineteenth International AIDS Conference continued in Washington Tuesday, thousands of protesters marched on the White House calling for an end to free trade deals that protesters argue make vital AIDS medicines unaffordable. -
23-Jul-2012 Terra Nullius Is the European Commission sweet on land grabbing? Trade benefits, sugarcane concessions and dispossession in Cambodia
Over the past several years, hundreds of thousands of Cambodians have been uprooted from their homes, farmlands, and forests by companies that have been granted concessions for the development of agro-industrial plantations. -
21-Jul-2012 CUPE Nova Scotia issues warning to Dexter, first ministers about proposed Canada-EU trade deal
The president of CUPE Nova Scotia has a warning for the premiers and others attending the first Ministers meeting in Halifax later this month. -
20-Jul-2012 Terre des Hommes France « Les accords de libre-échange sont, d’une certaine manière, un nouveau colonialisme. »
Entretien avec Lourdes Castro, responsable du bureau du GRUPO SUR, représentant ALOP, APRODEV, CIFA et OIDHACO -
11-Jul-2012 Socialist Worker San Diego says no to the TPP
Rick Greenblatt reports on the Obama administration’s secret negotiations for a new free-trade agreement—and the voices raised in dissent against it in San Diego. -
8-Jul-2012 San Diego City Buzz Examiner Trans Pacific Partnership protest marches on San Diego; Arrests made
Arrests were made Saturday as the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement protest marched on the Gaslamp district in downtown San Diego. -
8-Jul-2012 About 200 Protest Against Trans-Pacific Partnership
About two hundred people banging pots and pans marched downtown from the Civic Center Plaza to the Hilton Bayfront Hotel Saturday morning to protest a meeting of negotiators working to craft the Trans-Pacific Partnership. -
6-Jul-2012 TNI The dark side of investment agreements
An animation which exposes how people are paying the costs of corporate lawsuits under international investment agreements.
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4-Jul-2012 Prensa Latina Movimientos sociales deploran Acuerdo de Asociación Centroamérica-UE
Movimientos sociales centroamericanos manifestaron su rechazo a la firma del tratado bilateral presentado bajo el eufemismo de Acuerdo de Asociación Centroamérica- Unión Europea (AACA-UE), que trasciende la cuestión comercial. -
4-Jul-2012 DW EU parliamentarians reject ACTA
The EU Parliament has rejected the controversial global Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The decision is a victory for thousands of Europeans who took to the streets in furious protest against ACTA.
