From the movements
The EU-Ecuador trade agreement must work to protect workers’ rights in the banana industry
Ecuadorian trade union ASTAC and its European partners denounce the outrageous lack of human rights and environmental protections in the banana industry under the EU-Ecuador Trade Agreement.
Yaoundé declaration: The WTO And free trade cause hunger, poverty and inequality
For nearly thirty years the establishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), peasants’ organisations gathered in Cameroon have concluded that the WTO and free trade agreements hinder the development of countries in the Global South and lead to the ruin of small-scale producers worldwide.
No EU–US trade deal at the expense of climate, democracy, and sovereignty
Europe’s economic and political strength is based on cooperation, the rule of law, and democratic processes. A deal concluded under coercion would undermine these principles.
International resistance to Trump trade deals
Thousands of farmers, labor organizers, healthcare workers, faith leaders, economists, climate experts, government officials, and more from across the world are urging their governments to resist US imperialism through trade deals.
ECVC warns that the EU-Australia trade agreement threatens European food sovereignty
For ECVC, agriculture has no place in such deals. EU trade officials must abandon this path and instead channel their energy into a radical overhaul of the EU’s agricultural trade policy.
