Category: Trade and Investment
The Mekong needs just energy transitions, not more destructive dams
On 11 May, the Mekong River Commission (MRC) announced that the proposed Sanakham hydropower project in Laos will undergo the MRC’s Prior Consultation process.[1] Sanakham is the sixth mainstream dam to be submitted for Prior...
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PRESS RELEASE: Workers are not Virus-Proof
Advocacy groups call for expanded massive testing before economic restart As the nation...
Read MoreConfronting a Mega Deal: People’s Resistance to RCEP
by Joseph Purugganan Governments are now scrambling to conclude negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP), the mega free trade and investment deal launched 7 years ago by the ten countries...
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We demand Trade Justice: Reject RCEP and Corporate Trade Deals!
Workers, farmers, fishers, indigenous peoples, rural women, and health and trade justice advocates...
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Leaders from member countries at the 2nd RCEP Summit in Manila in 2017. Will countries come to an agreement when they meet again in Thailand on 1 November? [Photo from Presidential Communications Operations Office, Philippines via Wikimedia commons]
India’s RCEP Dilemma: Is There a Way Out?
India’s difficulty in acceding to the mega regional free trade agreement, RCEP, currently being...
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Rachmi of Indonesia for Global Justice speaks at a Climate Justice rally during the 5th session of negotiations for a UN Binding Treaty for Transnational Corporations on Human Rights/ [Photo by Joseph Purugganan]
Trade & Investment Agreements and Human Rights
by Joseph Purugganan How do we ensure corporate accountability in the wake of rising power of...
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People’s resistance to RCEP intensifies, amplifying #NotoRCEP call!
As governments scramble to save the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement,...
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Pursuing Accountability, Peace and Participation: 10 years of uncertainty in the Dawei Special Economic Zone
“The development of this road linkage infrastructure will effectively generate economic and social...
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No to Rice Trade Liberalization Law, An Anti-Farmer Measure!
We, from various national farmer organizations, civil society groups, and food sovereignty...
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Free Trade is Bad for You (or Most of You at Any Rate)
[The following is the intro speech in the debate between Walden Bello and the chief economist of...
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Protect people’s economic rights to data, RCEP countries urged
by Jai Vipra, IT for Change [We feature this intervention made by IT for Change at the stakeholder...
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RCEP must not undermine farmers’ rights, especially to protect their own plant varieties
RCEP Negotiations Must Not Include Obligation to Join or Implement UPOV Systems and In...
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