Category: Trade and Investment
UNPACKING RCEP: What Governments are Not Saying about the Mega FTA*
By Joseph Purugganan INTRODUCTION Let me also begin by thanking Radhika Desai, and the...
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Soren Ambrose at Focus on the Global South's 20th anniversary event in 2015.
On the passing of our comrade Soren Ambrose
Focus on the Global South joins friends and civil society from across the world in paying homage...
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RCEP an unjust deal and added burden in the time of a pandemic
Trade Justice Pilipinas statement on the signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic...
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A historic process continues at the UN: States resume substantive negotiations on the text for a binding treaty on transnational corporations with respect to human rights on 28 October 2020. Photo: Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity
Civil society drives momentum for UN treaty on TNCs and human rights
PRESS RELEASE Despite covid-19 limitations, civil society drives momentum for the historic UN...
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The sixth session of the UN Human Rights Council’s Open-ended Intergovernmental working group (OEIGWG) on Transnational corporations (TNCs) and Other Business Enterprises in Geneva from 26-30 October 2020.
Asian Network pushes stronger TNC regulations at the UN amidst pandemic
Amidst the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the negotiations towards a legally binding...
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Photo: Photo: Kamiel Choi / Pixabay
COVID-19, Distorted Development, and Degrowth
The following paper was presented at the Chulalongkorn University Social Research...
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EU Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan. CC-BY-4.0: © European Union 2019 – Source: EP
Open Letter to EU Trade Commissioner on Philippines GSP+ Withdrawal
Note: This open letter was addressed to then-EU Trade Commissioner Paul Hogan on 1 September 2020....
Read MoreThe 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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