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CALL TO ACTION!

18 January 2017 - by Argentina Mejor Sin TLC

Let’s put a stop to the WTO’s agenda and to Free Trade Agreements and investment provisions! Let’s build commercial relations that serve peoples’ interests and protect the environment! In 2017, let’s bring the ‘battle in Seattle’ to Buenos Aires! (...)
UN rights expert urges States not to sign the ‘flawed’ CETA treaty and put it to referendum

31 October 2016 - by United Nations - Human Rights, Alfred de Zayas

GENEVA (28 October 2016) – The trade deal set to be signed by the European Union and Canada is a corporate-driven, fundamentally flawed treaty which should not be signed or ratified without a referendum in each country concerned, a United Nations (...)
No to WTO and Free Trade Agreements

’TTIP Stalls, WTO and FTAs Must Fall’

9 September 2016 - by La Via Campesina

On September the 10th, the International Day of Action Against WTO, La Via Campesina, the International Peasant Movement that brings together over 200 million peasants from 164 member organisations in 73 countries, commemorates the death of Lee (...)
The Big #TTIPALARM Festival

24 August 2016 - by Nick Dearden, TNI

Nick Dearden on why we have to fight against TTIP and CETA, and why he believes we are on the winning side. Listen to the closing speech of the Big #TTIPalarm Festival held in Amsterdam, 29 May 2016. Source: (...)
EU / Trade agreements: UN rights expert warns against bypassing national parliaments

27 June 2016 - by United Nations - Human Rights

GENEVA (24 June 2016) – United Nations human rights expert Alfred de Zayas today warned that any plan by the European Union to bypass national parliaments to push through controversial trade deals would violate international human rights norms (...)
Investment Court System put to the test

26 May 2016 - by TNI, Corporate Europe Observatory, Friends of the Earth, Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung , Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

The European Commission says that its new investment proposal –the Investment Court System - will protect governments’ abilities to regulate on crucial matters such as public health and environmental protection. But analysis of five of the most (...)
Local politics enters the global contest

23 May 2016 - by Sol Trumbo Vila

European municipalities join the battle against TTIP to protect sovereignty and public services, demonstrating how to take political initiative and build an alternative economy Opponents of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (...)
New EU investment proposal won’t prevent corporate attacks

19 April 2016 - by Friends of the Earth

Dangerous attacks against regulations protecting the public interest and the environment would not be prevented by the European Commission’s new investment protection proposals for future trade agreements, according to a new report. Developed (...)
ATTAC Argentina rejects the free trade agenda carried along by Barack Obama in his visit to Argentina

23 March 2016 - by ATTAC/CADTM Argentina

Barack Obama will arrive to Argentina on the 23 of March. The aim of his visit is to economically and politically back up the administration of Mauricio Macri. The agenda of Obama in our country includes issues such as security, the war against (...)
Videos: Documentary series about the TTIP

10 February 2016 - by Art.35 Films

Documentary series about the TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which the United States and the European Union are negotiating. TTIP: The privatizacion of justice TTIP: Energy and climate change TTIP: A corporate (...)
Who does the World Economic Forum really represent?

22 January 2016 - by TNI

TNI takes a close look at the World Economic Forum’s Board to see who they represent, their economic interests and political beliefs. Might this be the future of global governance? According to the World Economic Forum, 2500 people including 40 (...)
The free trade agreements : contempt for citizens, sovereignty for multinationals

8 January 2016 - by Robert Joumard

They are called TAFTA, TiSA, TTIP, TTP, CETA – and many other names beside. Everything is done so that nobody understands anything and so that citizens will not be interested. For greater clarity, here we are summing up the very numerous partial (...)
International trade: UN expert calls for abolition of Investor-State dispute settlement arbitrations

28 October 2015 - by Office of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order

NEW YORK (26 October 2015) – “Trade must be made to work for human rights and development and not against them,” the United Nations Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred de Zayas, has said (...)
Public-private partnerships in Uganda cost the country dearly

28 September 2015 - by Paul Harper

Privatisation of the Ugandan electricity sector, initiated in 1999 as a condition of the debt relief programme, was supposed to mean the end of state support. Yet, by 2013 a special committee of the Ugandan Parliament reported that subsidies (...)
EPA Agreement: Stakeholders Urges FG To Decide On Time

4 August 2015 - by Ademola Oyejide

Stakeholders have warned Nigeria against signing the should take a position either to sign or reject the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) agreement between Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and European Union (EU). Nigeria (...)
UN experts voice concern over adverse impact of free trade and investment agreements on human rights

GENEVA 2 June 2015 - A number of free trade and investment agreements, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), are currently being negotiated. A group of UN experts* have issued (...)
CETA: Taking away the means to deal with a financial and a EURO crisis

6 October 2014 - by Myriam Vander Stichele

The negotiated text of CETA (leaked on 5 August 2014) has some very alarming provisions about financial services and investments. These CETA rules seriously undermine the power of parliaments, governments and regulators to introduce, change or (...)
Today’s 15 May European Business Summit in Brussels: massive repression and right to protest stifled

18 May 2014 - by CADTM Belgium

Today, Thursday 15 May 2014, l’Alliance D19-20)”(in French only)]] (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) and austerity measures. The European Business Summit was to bring together political personalities such as Karel De Gucht (...)
A summary of the report “Profiting from crisis”

13 May 2014 - by Giulia Simula

What do international arbitration institutions have in common with Domino’s Pizza, public transport operators, pawnbrokers, discount supermarkets, property auctioneers, and opposition politicians? Answer: all have profited from the global (...)
Citizens turn up the volume on troubled TTIP negotiations

21 March 2014 - by Corporate Europe Observatory

March 10-14th saw the latest round of the highly controversial EU-US free trade negotiations take place in Brussels. But while the industry’s 50 leading CEO’s, known collectively as the European Roundtable of Industrialists, proclaimed it their (...)
FTA EU-MERCOSUR: Why do only the negotiators want to sign it?

15 January 2014 - by Aram Aharonian

A Free Trade Agreement (FTA), under the conditions posed by the European Union (EU) for other countries (such as Colombia and Peru), is totally in contradiction with the goal of independent economic development that governments of Mercosur (the (...)