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Globalising Hunger
Globalising Hunger cover page
October 2011
Thomas Fritz

While the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) persists with its central focus of fostering competitiveness and exports of European agribusiness, it will continue to undermine small-scale farming and create greater food insecurity in the global South.

 

The WTO Doha round and EPAs in an era of crisis
November 2009
Dot Keet

The major causes of the economic and social crises are now being even more blatantly promoted by the EU - both within the multilateral WTO negotiations and bilateral and bi-regional FTA/EPA negotiations - as the fundamental solutions.

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

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Stop EU corporate agenda
April 2009
TNI

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India-EU Free Trade Agreement: Should India Open Up Banking Sector?
April 2009
TNI
 Kavaljit Singh

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The agreements between Andean countries and the EU deepen pharmaceutical dependence
February 2009
TNI

The Free Trade Agreement or the Association Agreement the European Union is promoting with two of the four countries member of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) risks the continuity of this bloc, but it also represents a threat to access to medications and health of the Andean peoples.

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How Europe underdevelops Africa and how some fight back
June 2008
TNI
 Patrick Bond and Richard Kamidza

In even the most exploitative African sites of repression and capital accumulation, sometimes corporations take a hit, and victims sometimes unite on continental lines instead of being divided-and-conquered.

Southern Africa: whither regional integration?
May 2008
Dot Keet
 Interviewed by Aileen Kwa
As a result of the free trade agreements with the European Union, called economic partnership agreements, regional integration in Southern Africa is in tatters. The question arises: what kind of integration would engender broad-based development?
Call to action against Europe’s aggressive economic agenda in Africa
February 2008
TNI

We, civil society organisations, including farmers, workers, women’s, faith-based and students’ groups and organisations, call on our people to redouble their efforts to stop the self-serving free trade agreements, misleading designated as ‘Economic Partnership Agreements’ that Europe seeks to...

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