Corporate agenda trumps peoples’ rights in EU-Philippines trade talks
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 26 May 2016 Corporate agenda trumps peoples’ rights in EU-Philippines trade talks A secret negotiation for a EU-Philippines FTA is a threat to access to medicines, fisheries, jobs, right to regulate and human rights claim Filipino...
Signing away sovereignty
How investment agreements threaten regulation of the mining industry in the Philippines Mining firms have been one of the main corporate sectors worldwide to take advantage of investor-state dispute mechanisms to sue states for regulation of mining, having sued...