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Pakistan must not pay the $6 billion it has been order to pay by a corporate court

Farooq Tariq
Farooq Tariq

18 July 2019
Stop corporate courts

Last week it was announced that Pakistan has been ordered to pay $5.9 billion in damages to Tethyan Copper, a joint venture between Chilean mining company Antofagasta and Canadian mining company Barrick Gold, nearly a decade after th

Meet the people on the frontline of the fight against corporate courts

Oriana Lauria
Oriana Lauria - digital communications manager

12 July 2019
Trade justice

Over the past few months we’ve been involved in an international movement against corporate courts - a system of secretive tribunals which big business can use to sue governments for taking actions that might threaten their profits.

In Libya we are seeing the full horror of Britain’s brutal migration policy

Nick Dearden
Nick Dearden, photo by Genevieve Stevenson

07 July 2019
Migration

In the last week we have seen the full horror of Britain’s brutal migration policy. 53 migrants were killed on Tuesday when a Libyan detention centre was bombed.

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Liam Fox ‘in denial’ over huge public concern at post-Brexit trade deals

Trade justice

Trade campaigners have reacted with fury to the long-delayed results of the Department for International Trade’s four public consultations on post-Brexit trade deals, released today. They accuse the department of planning to ignore hundreds of thousands of responses demanding that the public is given a say over future trade deals, and expressing concern over the prospects for food standards and the NHS.

Boris Johnson’s promise to prioritise US trade deal is a risk to NHS, food standards and a digital tax

Trade justice

Campaigners today issued a stark warning, that Boris Johnson’s enthusiasm to engage in a ‘quick’ US trade deal if he becomes Prime Minister next week, threatens Britain’s public services, food standards and online privacy. The Times (1) reported that Johnson is ready to travel to the US to start discussing a trade deal “as soon as possible” after becoming Prime Minister, engaging first in a limited, quick deal, but laying the grounds for a much bigger deal in coming months.

Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now, said:

Campaigners launch legal challenge over UK’s ‘secret trade talks’ with United States

Trade justice

Global Justice Now has launched a legal challenge at the Information Rights Tribunal over the Department for International Trade’s failure to release details of numerous trade meetings it has held with the United States and other countries since the EU referendum in 2016.