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Dozens of Indigenous absolved in Peru’s 2009 ’Baguazo’ massacre
23-Sep-2016 TeleSur
Dozens of Indigenous people in Peru have been absolved of accusations that they were responsible for a massacre seven years ago that killed at least 32 people, due to intense conflict triggered by the country’s free trade agreements.
German activists take EU-Canada trade deal to Constitutional Court
1-Sep-2016 Reuters
Activists delivered what they said was Germany’s biggest-ever public complaint to the Constitutional Court, hoping it will scupper a trade agreement between the European Union and Canada.
The court that rules the world
30-Aug-2016 BuzzFeed
A parallel legal universe, open only to corporations and largely invisible to everyone else, helps executives convicted of crimes escape punishment.
Opposition to TPP grows as postal workers’ union rallies against deal
25-Aug-2016 RT
Some 2,000 members of the American Postal Workers Union have gathered in Miami where they are officially opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Water for gold
5-Aug-2016 Loading Docs
Water for Gold tells the alarming story of how international trade law is leading us to trade our most basic rights to clean, safe water for access to gold.
The Empire Files: Bringing corporations to justice with Ecuador’s UN Rep
24-Jul-2016 Tele Sur
For the first time ever, progress is being made at the United Nations for a binging legal instrument that would hold corporations accountable for human rights violations.
TTIP: Why are the talks taking so long?
15-Jul-2016 BBC
A short video takes a look at some of the reasons why the talks are so complicated.
40 arrested in Brussels after protesters attack TTIP negotiators – with confetti
15-Jul-2016 RT
The latest round of negotiations of the under-threat trade agreement between the US and the EU is suffering from pressure both, outside and inside the negotiating room.
An interview with Lauge Poulsen, author of Bounded Rationality and Economic Diplomacy
15-Jun-2016 IISD
Lauge Poulsen is a Lecturer in International Political Economy at University College London. His recent book explains why and how developing countries signed up to investment treaties.
EU-PH FTA protest action in the Philippines
3-Jun-2016 CHD APIRD
Health groups register their contempt for the upcoming EU-Philippines Free Trade Agreement.
Citra Mina workers
25-May-2016 Focus
The Philippine government is hoping the EU-Philippines FTA wil facilitate more tuna exports to the EU, but the industry is riddled with issues of low wages, unfair labor practices, poor and slave-like working conditions.
PNG attacks Australia at Pacific free trade talks
2-Mar-2016 SBS
The signing of a Pacific free trade deal in June has been thrown into doubt with the largest island nation Papua New Guinea saying it favours Australia and will damage local industries.
Peru’s police violently clashes with Anti-TPP protesters
1-Mar-2016 Tele Sur
This is the fifth time Peruvians have demonstrated against the free-trade agreement since the beginning of the secret negotiations. Police violently clashed with protesters.
TTIP negotiators outnumbered by citizens!
29-Feb-2016 Flash Mob Stop TTIP
Featuring Dan Mullaney, Ignacio Bercero, Stop TTIP
German SMEs join forces to resist TTIP
24-Feb-2016 DW
TTIP aims to spur growth and create jobs on both sides of the Atlantic, but there are doubts among some small and midsized businesses in Germany.
Voice of protest returns to Waitangi shores
5-Feb-2016 Maori TV
The voice of protest made its way along the Bay of Islands to its traditional home on the shores of Waitangi, to Te Tii Marae. At the centre of the protest was the TPP agreement.
Say NO to the new legislations on trade secrets
22-Jan-2016 Xnet
What is hiding behind the new laws on trade secrets?
TPPA briefing to NGOs by Ms. Sanya Reid Smith
19-Jan-2016 Empower
Ms. Reid Smith analyses the implications of trade agreements on economic and social sectors and various policies in developing countries.
Death on a plate: TTIP, meat inspections and your food
27-Nov-2015 War on Want
’Death on a plate: TTIP, meat inspections and your food’ features the testimony of a mother whose daughter died from eating contaminated meat and comments by a government meat inspector and others in the food industry.
Does the EU’s “Investment Court System” put an end to ISDS?
24-Nov-2015 TNI
Professor Gus Van Harten, Osgoode Hall Law School, and Rupert Schlegelmilch, European Commission, Directorate General for Trade discuss the European Commission’s proposed “Investment Court System”.