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Senators urged to hear out peasants on JPEPA
The greatest benefit from any increased banana and pineapple exports resulting from JPEPA will go to the big foreign agribusiness TNCs like Dole and Del Monte, not to Filipino workers and farmers as a whole, militant groups say.
As Senate resumes public hearings, new anti-JPEPA group slams effects on agriculture
Members of No Deal! JPEPA, Movement Against Unequal Economic Agreements, slammed the effects on agriculture of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA).
Landlessness, environmental healh hazards to increase with JPEPA
The militant peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) Southern Mindanao Region and No Deal! Movement against Unequal Economic Agreements are spearheading today a protest rally against Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) in Davao City as the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs is expected to submit its report on JPEPA in the plenary.
JPEPA: Gross violation of the Constitution
The JPEPA was based on the Japan-Singapore Economic Partnership Agreement, literally employing the "cut-and-paste" method. Page 71 of the Working Draft of the JPEPA still contains the word Singapore in one of the provisions.
Nurses pray for Senate rejection of RP-Japan pact
Some 2,000 Filipino nurses holding a convention in Cagayan de Oro lit candles and prayed on Wednesday for the Philippine Senate to reject the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement.
Bayan and No Deal Movement hold picket against JPEPA at Japanese embassy
The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan and the No Deal! Movement Against Unequal Economic Agreements led a protest against the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) in front of the Japanese Embassy in Manila
Last chance for Japan deal
The Philippine Senate will hold one more public hearing on the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement to give the executive branch a last chance to refute the objections raised by various groups against the treaty and their argument that it is heavily lopsided in favor of Japan.
Sign-on petition statement vs JPEPA
Please join this appeal to the Philippine Senate to reject the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) before 3 November 2007.
Farmers: JPEPA is anti-Filipino
In the series of consultations made by the Philippine Peasant Institute (PPI) with farmers, most of them believe that it is anti-Filipino, anti-farmer, and contrary to the Constitution.
Debate rages as Jpepa stirs up a hornet’s nest
Various groups around the Philippines have come out with guns blazing, claiming that the proposed Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement will only harm farmers in the countryside.
Philippine Senate prepares to shoot down FTA with Japan
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s campaign to persuade the Senate to ratify a landmark free-trade agreement with Japan is looking increasingly hopeless
Militant groups ask senators to scrap RP-Japan accord
The jobs of at least 77,000 as well as tens of thousands of iron and steel workers whose livelihoods depend, directly or indirectly, on the automotive industry are imperiled as the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) threatens to destroy the country’s automotive industry, said Frank Mero, national president of the Philippine Metalworkers’ Alliance and of the Automotive Industry Workers’ Alliance.
JPEPA unconstitutional, legal luminaries say
Legal luminaries insist on the unconstitutionality of the proposed Japan Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), presently under scrutiny by the Philippine Senate
India, Philippines sign 9 bilateral deals
The Philippines signed nine bilateral agreements with India on Friday, including a framework agreement for bilateral trade.
JPEPA makes working in Japan tougher for health workers
Filipino health workers hoping to work in Japan or migrate to that country may find it more difficult if the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) is approved, said a national organization of health professionals.
Roxas on JPEPA: No deal better than bad deal
Philippines Sen. Mar Roxas said senators remain unconvinced on ratifying the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) even as the executive branch had created an inter-agency task force to explain the benefits of the bilateral economic agreement.
Anti-JPEPA advocates ask RP to renegotiate treaty
The multisectoral Fair Trade Alliance calls for a renegotiation of JPEPA
Philippine Senators ’could reject’ Japan free trade deal
Philippine lawmakers are unlikely to ratify a free trade agreement with Japan in the deal’s present form, the president of the Southeast Asian nation’s Senate said Tuesday.
Filipino nursing students want JPEPA junked
Nursing students staged in Manila a rally against the ratification of the proposed Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) for fear that Filipino nurses will only end up as nursing aides or attendants in Japan.
Senate rejection of JPEPA seen
After three hearings, the proposed trade treaty between the Philippines and Japan is on the verge of defeat in the Senate after government officials again failed to convince the senators of the treaty’s benefits to the country.