29-Mar-2022
The Korea Times
A coalition of farmers and fishermen are against the government’s move to join a trade agreement with 11 countries in the trans-Pacific area, saying their livelihoods will be threatened greatly if Korea opens its market to global sellers of cheaper agricultural and marine products.
25-Mar-2022
Business Korea
South Korea’s application for the CPTPP membership is likely to become possible in June, two months behind schedule, amid opposition from farmers and fishermen and the government’s transition period.
3-Mar-2022
Inequality.org
An attempted assassination, criminalization, and violent eviction in 2014 didn’t stop the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya in Guatemala, which won legal action suspending harmful mining activities.
7-Feb-2022
The Manila Times
Local fish, pork and chicken producers formed a united front against the RCEP and urged the Philippine Senate to defer ratification of the "lopsided" international trade accord.
31-Jan-2022
Trade Justice - Pilipinas
Trade Justice Pilipinas reiterates its call to the Senate to deny concurrence to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement.
8-Dec-2021
Manila Bulletin
A group of farmers has threatened not to support re-electionist senators if they will not junk the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a mega trade deal.
7-Dec-2021
Thai PBS World
Thailand’s anti-CPTPP civil society organizations issued an open letter, addressed to Prime Minister, urging the government immediately to cease plans to join the 11-member CPTPP trade bloc.
2-Dec-2021
La Vía Campesina
We need a multilateral trade system where people and their social movements are at equal footing with governments in defining the trade rules between countries.
1-Dec-2021
National Observer
An environmental group is pleading with the Canadian government to reject a controversial trade deal it says would further fuel deforestation in the Amazon in a new letter addressed to Canada’s minister of foreign affairs.
23-Nov-2021
Chile Better without FTA Platform
We call on social organisations to be attentive to what happens with the modernisation of the Association Agreement between Chile and the European Union.