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Source: Ipolitics.ca By Frances Russell | Nov 20, 2012 Don’t be fooled. The innocuous language used to describe the avalanche of so-called “trade” agreements raining down on Canada under the Harper government — the TransPacific Partnership (TPP), the Canada-European Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the Canada-China Foreign Investment Agreement, not to mention the plethora of single-country trade deals — aren’t about trade By Aldo Orellana López, for NJGI* December 19, 2012 This article is based on an interview with Alberto Villarreal, a member of REDES Friends of the Earth Uruguay who participated in the 5th Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, held in Seoul, South Korea, in November 2012. In recent decades social struggles have achieved a significant expansion of Download a brochure produced by NJGI where you will find illustrated information about tobacco giant Philip Morris’s cases against Uruguay, Australia and Norway, and a description about how the system works and what can you do. Philip Morris´s Attack on public health pdf Source: Vcc.columbia.edu December 17, 2012 by Karl P. Sauvant and Huiping Chen* China is the largest foreign direct investment (FDI) host and home country among emerging markets, the United States among developed countries. As host countries, both seek to maintain policy space to pursue their own legitimate public policy objectives; as home countries, both seek Source: Corpwatch.org By Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch Blog December 17th, 2012 Image: Ricardo Santos, Corporate Europe Observatory Dozens of highly paid international lawyers are pocketing millions of dollars in fees from multinational corporations to sue governments in secretive “arbitration tribunals” for profits they claim to be owed under international investment treaties, according to “Profiting from Injustice” – a new report from Brussels-based Corporate Europe Observatory and Amsterdam-based Source: Radiomundoreal.fm December 13, 2012 European Parliament Passed Trade Agreements with Latin American Countries: Interview with Friends of the Earth Coordinator Download: MP3 (2.2 Mb) Social and environmental organizations reacted to the European Parliament’s passing of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Colombia and Peru, and an Association Agreement with Central America, with a public statement that warns about the negative impacts of these agreements Source: Bu.edu Issues in Brief No. 26, December 2012 By Kevin P. Gallagher December 2012 (8 pages) Download PDF In December 2012, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a new “institutional view” on capital account liberalization and the management of capital flows between countries. In this Issues in Brief, Kevin P. Gallagher, one of the co-chairs of the Pardee Center Task Force on Regulating Source: Oidhaco.org According to studies by the London School of Economics “the two Agreementslack mechanisms for monitoring and enforcing Human Rights” Brussels, 11th of December 2012 The European Parliament has prioritised trade over human rights and sustainable development today in a vote that brings into force two agreements between the European Union and Central America, and Colombia and Peru. The agreements will not do Source: Euractiv.com 11 December 2012 MEPs approved free-trade accords with Colombia, Peru and six Central American nations today (11 December), giving them permanent access to the EU’s 500 million consumers and offering the EU’s stagnant economy new markets for its cars and luxury goods. Setting aside doubts about Colombia’s human rights record, the European Parliament in Strasbourg voted to allow the deals to come into Source: GDAE Working Group Discussion Paper No. 34, December 2012 Amos Irwin and Kevin P. Gallagher Chinese investment in Latin America has exploded in recent years, leading observers to worry that Chinese companies may transplant poor labor and environmental practices to the region. In this Discussion Paper, GDAE’s Amos Irwin and Kevin P. Gallagher evaluate the economic, environmental and social impacts of Source: Juergen-klute.eu December 7, 2012 In the coming days, the European Parliament will decide to ratify, or not, the controversial Trade Agreements subscribed with several Latin American countries. A large proportion of civil society has expressed its concerns about these agreements arguing that they could represent a danger for local economy, sustainable development, food sovereignty and access to water and other essential resources for |
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