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RCEP

Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (ASEAN+6)

Cold reception to RCEP as people’s resistance consolidates
19-Jul-2017
At a press conference held today in New Delhi, researchers and academics expressed concern about the likely impact of RCEP on areas like agriculture, services, access to medicines, investment and e-commerce, flagging the growing popular rejection of this mega-regional FTA
Show support for people’s protest at RCEP talks in India
19-Jul-2017 AFTINET
Support farmers, workers and communities protesting TPP-like proposals on seeds, medicines, services and corporate powers to sur governments in Hyderabad!
People’s summit against FTAs and RCEP
18-Jul-2017
Trading health through IPR, patents
17-Jul-2017 Deccan Herald
Trade agreements between countries have a perceivable impact on access to medicines as a result of changes in patent and other national laws in different countries.
Call for solidarity and participation! People’s summit against FTAs and RCEP
15-Jul-2017 Focus on the Global South
22-26 July 2017. Hyderabad, India.
’Don’t make decisions about us, without us’
13-Jul-2017 Al Jazeera
Free trade agreements scripted by powerful governments and corporations destroy rural areas. Peasants will resist them!
No RCEP Campaign: Stop trading away human rights
13-Jul-2017 APWLD
The ’No RCEP’ campaign urges governments to consider the adverse impact of the mega free trade agreement
PH bats for conclusion of 2 major ASEAN FTA deals
12-Jul-2017 Manila Bulletin
The Philippines, which chairs ASEAN this year, is looking at the conclusion of two major free trade deals – ASEAN-Hong Kong and Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.
Foreign investment: big slogan and bigger worries
8-Jul-2017 NDTV India
What can India do at the level of trade and diplomacy to deal with RCEP
Investing in alternative dispute settlement
3-Jul-2017 Madhyam
Governments at the Centre and in the States must urgently invest in building their own capacity to handle the new generation of international investment arbitration.
RCEP pact:700 officials from 16 nations to meet in Hyderabad
28-Jun-2017 PTI
Officials from RCEP negotiating nations will meet in Hyderabad
Why workers should reject RCEP
22-Jun-2017 TNI
What is the RCEP and why should workers reject it?
India agrees to government procurement talks in regional trade pact
20-Jun-2017 The Economic Times
Delhi agrees to start talks on government procurement as part of RCEP
How RCEP affects food and farmers
19-Jun-2017 GRAIN
The many ways in which RCEP will affect our lives
RCEP: A disaster for India and its people
16-Jun-2017 Newsclick
An eminent Indian trade economist speaks about the problems of RCEP
FAFTA braces for battle against Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
16-Jun-2017 Hans India
A coalition of farmers unions, trade unions and civil society fights against RCEP in India
The RCEP negotiations: From one round to another to another
15-Jun-2017 Madhyam
Given the internal differences among participating countries, the RCEP certainly does not look anywhere near conclusion this year.
China, Singapore seek to expedite RCEP trade talks
13-Jun-2017 Reuters
China and Singapore will do their best to expedite talks on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
ASEAN trade expansion and RCEP
9-Jun-2017 Business World
Free trade advocates urge more trade liberalization
Towards a people’s charter on trade
6-Jun-2017 Aliran
Free trade agreements have been the battering rams that have been used by the political elite of advanced countries to create a lop-sided economy that favours billionaires.