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Planned EU trade deal with Mercosur threatens climate, environmental protection and human rights
29-Jun-2020 CIDSE
The agreement could have serious ecological and human rights repercussions, new study warns.
What is Dubrovnik today?
26-Jun-2020 TNI
A golf course, free-trade agreements, and the fight for the soul of a city
To get out of the crisis exacerbated by Covid-19: more than a hundred organizations and networks in the Arab region are launching a campaign for debt cancellation and getting rid of "free trade" agreements.
26-Jun-2020 Observatoire Tunisien de l’Economie
To get out of the crisis exacerbated by Covid-19: more than a hundred organizations and networks in the Arab region are launching a campaign for debt cancellation and getting rid of "free trade" agreements.
Open letter to governments on ISDS and COVID-19
25-Jun-2020 S2B Network
We urge you to take immediate action to ensure that the duty of governments to regulate in the public interest is safeguarded and put beyond the scope of ISDS claims.
RCEP will undermine fight against COVID19 pandemic
18-Jun-2020 APWLD
The 15 governments must consider the adverse impact of the mega FTA and put an end to trade agreements such as RCEP as they only increase protection and power of multinational corporations.
EU failed to consider environmental and social impacts of South American trade deal: complaint
15-Jun-2020 Client Earth
The European Commission has ignored its legal obligation to ensure the trade agreement with the ‘Mercosur’ group of South American countries will not lead to social, economic, environmental degradation and human rights violations.
Call to action! Stop EFTA countries to undermine farmers’ rights to seed in free trade agreements
11-Jun-2020 Recht auf saatgut
Sign-on the letter for organisations.
Looking in the Mexican mirror
11-Jun-2020 TNI
26 years of free trade, industrial paradise for transnational corporations and environmental hell for the peoples.
Alternatives for the ‘Energy and Raw Materials Chapters’ in EU trade agreements
4-Jun-2020 Power Shift
How trade agreements could strengthen human rights and environmental protection in the raw materials sector.
Anchoring climate and environmental protection in EU trade agreements
4-Jun-2020 Power Shift
How trade agreements could contribute to a more sustainable world economy.
The European evaluation of the Association Agreements: guarantees and content still insufficient
3-Jun-2020 FTDES
The lack of independence, the priority given to the commercial aspects instead of the human aspects, and the superficiality of this report prevent it from being recognised as a credible evaluation.
The EU-Mercosur trade agreement: What is it, and what could it mean for forests and human rights?
3-Jun-2020 Fern
This briefing is meant to provide a discussion for NGOs in Brazil who want to understand the implications of this deal for people and forests and take action.
Analysis of the UK’s draft FTA for the EU-UK relationship
3-Jun-2020 Trade Justice Movement
The UK’s draft FTA is analysed here in terms of what it would mean for the UK and for trade justice.
Justice and reparation: the struggle of Chevron-affected communities in COVID-19 times
27-May-2020 Stop Corporate Impunity
Indigenous communities call for international solidarity to support for the vindication of rights of the comunities and peoples affected by corporate impunity and their struggle for a dignified life.
The true cost of the EU-Mercosur trade deal
26-May-2020 Friends of the Earth Europe
The EU-Mercosur trade deal comes at a tremendous expense for people and the planet. Dire consequences are looming both on regional and global levels.
Digital trade rules and Big Tech: Surrendering public good to private power
22-May-2020 PSI
As tech giants emerge as the undisputed winners of the Covid-19 crisis, they continue to use free trade agreements to protect themselves from regulation.
Information brief on US-Kenya FTA
18-May-2020 TWN Africa
Kenya’s basis for FTA with US questioned, inherent dangers flagged by African Trade Experts.
The unknown climate-killer deal we’ll have to tackle next
18-May-2020 Friends of the Earth Europe
The Energy Charter Treaty takes an axe to climate action.
The African Union should halt African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Negotiations and launch of trading on 1st July 2020
15-May-2020
Civil society organisations statement.
US-Kenya FTA and the rights to land and food
10-May-2020 IATP
The US Trade Representative has announced plans to negotiate a free-trade agreement with Kenya. This would be the first free-trade agreement the US has negotiated with an African nation.