Achievements

The Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTINET) is a network of community organizations and individuals that has campaigned since 2000 for a fairer and more democratic global trade system, based on human rights and environmental sustainability.

Our successes include:

• Pressuring government to publish previously secret information about trade negotiations, enabling community groups to debate them.

• Raising awareness of the social impacts of trade agreements through community education, submissions to government and media debate.

• Reducing pubic support for the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) from 65% to 34%.

• Defeating some of the worst proposals in the AUSFTA, like threats to GM food labeling, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and giving corporations the right to sue governments over trade agreement rules.

• Being part of global campaigns that  defeated harmful proposals in the World Trade Organisation.