Blogs
ISDS files – Agro EcoEnergy v Tanzania
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 31 January 2019
Campaigns: Trade
Sugar plantation investor accused of a land grab is suing after the Tanzanian government took back the land title
Read moreISDS files – Philip Morris V Australia
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 31 January 2019
Campaigns: Trade
Tobacco giant sued Australia over plain packaging for cigarettes
Read moreISDS files – Lone Pine V Canada
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 31 January 2019
Campaigns: Trade
Oil and gas company suing the Canadian government over a moratorium on fracking in Quebec
Read moreISDS files – Anglian Water V Argentina
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 31 January 2019
Campaigns: Trade
Water company sued when Argentina froze water prices during a financial crisis
Read moreThe case against corporate courts
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 31 January 2019
Campaigns: Trade
Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), is a system of special privileges granted to transnational companies by rules in trade and investment deals. ISDS has enabled corporations to sue countries for doing almost anything they don’t like – including restrictions on destructive mining, regulating finance, renationalising public services and anti-smoking policies.
Read moreTrading up for health: How to prevent trade deals from undermining health
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 30 January 2019
Campaigns: Pharma, Trade
This briefing outlines the main risks that trade policy poses to health, and then sets out the alternatives that could help avoid these risks and ensure that trade doesn’t undermine […]
Read moreTaking public control of medicines
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 29 November 2018
Campaigns: Pharma
The pharmaceutical industry makes billions in profits from charging high prices for medicines. Meanwhile, people suffer and die from treatable conditions because they can’t afford extortionate prices. This is a […]
Read moreThe Trans-Pacific Powergrab
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 16 October 2018
Campaigns: Trade
TPP will hand over even more power to the most powerful corporations in the world and deepen the inequalities of hyperglobalisation. The UK should not be considering joining it. Instead […]
Read moreUN Binding Treaty – Common position paper for UK civil society
Type: Campaign briefings, Other
Date: 12 October 2018
Campaigns: Climate
Ahead of a week of negotiations on the UN Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights in Geneva in October, the UK civil society working group on the Binding Treaty has produced a common position paper for UK government and parliamentary advocacy.
Read moreTrade campaign update for Scottish activists
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 27 August 2018
Campaigns: Trade
On 5 September we’ll be donning our chicken costumes, and the masks of our Tory government and their cronies (see pic) to welcome the trade minister George Hollingbery to Holyrood. […]
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