Peru lead pollution case shows dangers of investor rights to sue governments
As TPPA negotiations begin in Peru, a US mining company is suing the Peruvian government because it dared to fine the company for pollution and lead poisoning
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Trans Pacific Partnership puts member countries' health at risk
International trade agreements bring new transnational food companies into countries, along with new food advertising and promotion. This has often led to an increase in unhealthy foods entering the domestic market. The TPPA could go even further and increase the influence of the food industry on domestic regulatory regimes and policies. See the link to the Conversation blog
http://theconversation.com/trans-pacific-partnership-puts-member-countri...
Peril in the Pacific: Trans Pacific trade agreement threatens people and the planet
A new video from Friends of the Earth, U.S highlights the threats to the environment and human rights posed by the secret negotiation of the TPP deal and in particular its draft investment chapter.
Put health ahead of profits in Asia-Pacific trade pact
Kelly Nicholls from Medecins Sans Frontieres writes in The Australian that US proposals in the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations for restrictive intellectual property rights on medicines would make the TPPA the most damaging trade agreement ever for access to essential medicines in developing countries. http://www.msfaccess.org/content/trans-pacific-partnership-threat-afford...
New TPPA Leaflets!
Check out AFTINET’s new leaflet on the TPPA
AFTINET’s new leaflet shows how the corporate agenda in the TPPA would affect medicine prices, workers rights, the environment and internet freedom, and would give special rights to foreign investors to sue governments over health and environment regulation.
Also our new factsheets that show how the corporate agenda in the TPPA would affect the provision of services, women’s rights and worker's rights .
Global treaties a threat to public health
An article by Dr Deborah Gleeson of Latrobe University, published recently in the British Medical Journal, The Lancet, says the ability of governments world-wide to make sound public health policies and laws is increasingly threatened by trade and investment treaties.
TPP: Trading Away Health on a Global Scale
Watch Dr Deborah Gleeson from Latrobe University talk about the threats to public health in the Trans Pacific Partnership Negotiations, including higher medicine prices and less regulation of health hazards like tobacco in this video of a recent 'webinar'.
Twin trade initiatives could undermine labour rights, environmental protection, access to medicines and internet freedom.
ANU Professor Matthew Rimmer’s article in The Conversation explains how the US administration’s twin trade initiatives, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPPA) and the Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) could undermine labour rights, environmental protection, access to medicines and internet freedom.
Read article here.
Trading health for even fatter profits
Amy Corderoy’s article ‘Trading health for even fatter profits” in the Sydney Morning Herald analyses how trade agreements like Pacific Island PACER-plus and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPPA) can lead to increases in consumption of unhealthy food in developing countries, and prevent governments from introducing public health measures to inform consumers of the dangers.
Investor rights to sue would harm rural environments and public health
A blog by AFTINET Convenor, Dr Patricia Ranald, on investor disputes and rural public health was published on the Crikey website on January 25, 2013, countering the views expressed by some cattle farmers’ organisations that want speedy access for their exports and are lobbying for the Australian government to agree to investor rights to sue governments (ISDS) in the Korean FTA. Dr Ranald explains why this would be a mistake.
Read on for the full article.