We can still stop those agreements for the society of Colombia, Peru and Central America to build their own future and economical development without being sold to trade interests. Sign now!
As citizens we must raise our voice against injustice. Let's make our Governments respect us! Act NOW! We say the EU should not meet trade agreements with countries where Human Rights are being violated!
EU policies are continuing to seriously undermine rights in developing countries says a new report by CONCORD, the confederation of European development NGOs. The report shows incoherencies between EU development objectives and other policies, coming at an important time as the EU reforms its agricultural, trade and development policies.
On 10 March 2011, the world’s attention was firmly focused on events in the north African nation of Libya. A popular uprising against Gaddafi a month before had turned into a full-scale civil war. The concern voiced by rebels and politicians throughout the UN was of a possible imminent massacre. On the very same day, a prominent international law firm, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, also had its eye on Libya but seemed to have something very different on its mind than human casualties.
The publication analyses the impacts of the scramble for the cheapest raw materials, the exports of cereals, dairy and poultry products, as well as the effects of the growing demand for animal feed, by far the most important agricultural commodity imported into the European Union.
Brussels, September 29, 2011. The European Council has commenced the process necessary to approve the trade agreement between the EU-Colombia and Peru. In light of parliamentary questions to Commissioner Karel De Gucht regarding the grave human rights situation in Colombia, Latin American and European networks, grouped in OIDHACO, the bi-regional European-Latin American and Caribbean network Enlazando Alternativas, Asociación Latinoamericana de Organizaciones de Promoción al Desarrollo (ALOP), Grupo Sur, Hemispheric Social Alliance, la Red Colombiana de Acción contra el Libre Comercio (RECALCA) and CNCD-11.11.11, express their deep concern about the possible adoption of the Agreement.
Time for Europe to put values and human rights above commercial advantage
Published by TNI - March 2011
Over 200 civil society organisations and the International and European Trade Union Confederations are opposing the EU-Colombia/Peru FTA because it will:
Reward a Colombian government responsible for the highest level of trade unionist assassinations worldwide and ongoing disappearances and forced displacement.
Expand investment in areas of mining and biofuels, which the European Commission’s (EC) own evidence suggests will incre
