Category: Trade and Investment
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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People’s movements urge countries to stop RCEP negotiations
Denpasar, 25 February 2019. The Coalition of Indonesian Civil Society for Economic Justice...
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RCEP needs to prioritize justice, not balance
[Note: The following is the slightly edited text of an intervention made during Stakeholder...
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Trade Justice Pilipinas calls for withdrawal of EU trade preferences to the Philippines under GSP+
In the wake of worsening human rights situation in the Philippines under the Duterte...
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Farmers protest passage of Rice Tariffication Bill
Pasay City, Philippines – Around 200 rice farmers, farmworkers, rural youth and women from...
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Dangers posed by RCEP for agriculture & smallholder farmers
The following is a discussion note by Afsar Jafri for a lecture at the 4th Kisan Swaraj Sammelan...
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Corporate control and food sovereignty: issues and ways forward
Report from a forum on corporate concentration in agriculture and food, and its implications on...
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Infrastructure for whom?
Bali, Indonesia – International Financial Institutions led by the International...
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