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Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (ASEAN+6)

RCEP talks: India manages major breakthrough

Financial Express | 5-Sep-2018

New Delhi won’t not take additional commitment on intellectual property rights beyond the TRIPS agreement it has already accepted at the WTO; investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism only for limited sectors.

keywords: India , intellectual property , investor-state disputes | ISDS , RCEP

Asia’s evolving ‘free’ trade deal may not benefit workers

Manila Times | 3-Aug-2018

Labor unions and workers’ rights advocates fear that the secretive RCEP agreement will further erode workers’ rights in the Asian region, while strengthening the hands of investors who may be able to sue governments for changing laws such as setting minimum wages, that would erode their profitability.

keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , labour | workers’ rights , RCEP

Oral Statement: Indonesia for Global Justice (IGJ) for the 23rd round RCEP negotiation, Bangkok, Thailand, July 23rd, 2018

IGJ | 25-Jul-2018

Redlines for investment provision in RCEP negotiation

keywords: actions | resistance , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , RCEP

RCEP agreement puts future of Thai people at risk

Bangkok Post | 24-Jul-2018

The Thai government is about to enter a trade deal that could seriously harm the reform agenda and deprive communities of the ability to make decisions for fear of violating investors’ rights.

keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , RCEP , Thailand , women

Investor vs state interests debate heats up

Bangkok Post | 16-Jul-2018

Ahead of the 23rd round of negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership there has been growing concern over its investment chapters that will let foreign investors’ benefits overrride public interests.

keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS , RCEP

Why we must ban secret corporate courts from trade deals

Friends of the Earth Australia | 3-May-2018

The ISDS system impedes on national sovereignty to the benefit of corporations, yet places no obligations on investors to behave responsibly, creating an asymmetric system that gives multinationals the same rights as sovereign states.

keywords: Australia , CPTPP , investor-state disputes | ISDS , RCEP

Free trade or women’s rights?

Strategic Review | 5-Jan-2018

After 30 years of neoliberal globalization, it has been increasingly acknowledged that austerity, privatization, deregulation of finance, markets and corporations, and trade and investment liberalization have had a devastating and discriminatory impact on women.

keywords: human rights , investor-state disputes | ISDS , RCEP , women