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Does the EU-Malaysia FTA undermine government policy space to regulate?
November 2011

Charles Santiago, MP from Malaysia, discusses the dangers of EU-Malaysia FTA, particularly due to the inclusion of an investment protection chapter. 

Time for Europe to put human rights above commercial advantage
March 2011
Cecilia Olivet
 Paulina Novo

Free trade or slave trade? How the EU's free trade agreements in Colombia and Peru reward human rights abuses, destroy livelihoods, promote land grabbing and strip governments of their sovereignty to regulate capital flows.

Obama’s Trip to India: Don’t Rush into a Bilateral Investment Treaty
October 2010
Sarah Anderson

The U.S. and India should not sign a treaty that will only serve the short-term interests of large corporations, and undermine the authority of governments to protect their people from financial crisis.

The EU-India Free Trade Agreement
August 2009
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 Traidcraft

Negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) between the EU and India could pose serious threats to India’s development and to efforts to redress poverty and inequality.

UN Conference on the world financial and economic crisis
June 2009
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Spearheaded by the current President of the UN General Assembly Miguel D´Escoto Brockmann, the UN Conference on the Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impacts on Development took place from June 24-26, 2009.

Confronting global trade as a root cause of the financial crisis!
June 2009
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 Our World Is Not For Sale

Some Key Points for Member Groups of the Our World Is Not For Sale Network [OWINFS] at the United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development, June 22-24, 2009.

Business as usual: EU Commission continues free trade negotiations despite massacre in the Amazon of Peru
June 2009
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 Press Release

On 5 June, the government of Peru launched an extremely violent attack on
the indigenous peaceful protests against 10 legislative decrees promoted
by the Peruvian Government in order to comply with the Free trade
Agreement (FTA) with US that threatens their rights and their...

STOP the Violence Against Peruvian Indigenous People: STOP NOW THE FTAs!
June 2009
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Debating Europe: The EU – ASEAN Free Trade Agreement: Region-to-region versus the bilateral approach (Video)
May 2009
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 Charles Santiago, Helmut Markov, Ignacio Garcia Bercero
"ASEAN should build a different kind of regionalism and not sign bilateral Free Trade Agreements with the EU", says Malaysian MP Mr. Charles Santiago in Brussels in a debate with Mr. Bercero, chief negotiator for the EU in the EU-Korea FTA and Mr.
Stop EU corporate agenda
April 2009
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