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The Indonesia-US Trade Agreement on Reciprocal Tariffs threatens Indonesia’s food and national sovereignty
24-Feb-2026 Serikat Petani Indonesia
Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI) believes that the Indonesia-US ART has the potential to narrow the scope of national policy in protecting the agricultural and food sectors, has direct and fundamental implications for the direction of national agricultural policy, food sovereignty, and the livelihoods of small farmers, even threatening the sovereignty of the Indonesian state.
To diversify trade, ditch the ideological baggage
23-Feb-2026 The Hill Times
Canada’s trade diversification policy amounts to signing more old school free trade and investment deals as quickly, and with as little debate, as possible.
Susan George – acclaimed political scientist and TNI’s honorary president – has passed away at the age of 91
19-Feb-2026 TNI
No one has done more to shape, energise, and inspire TNI over the decades – she has been our inspiration, our honorary leader, our intellectual soul, and our beloved friend. We will never see her like again.
US eyes minerals in occupied Western Sahara
18-Feb-2026 WSRW
Seeking to position itself as a key supplier of strategic minerals for Western powers, Morocco has signed a new agreement with the United States that covers Western Sahara’s waters and the critical minerals harboured there.
India NZ FTA fails the Interim Tiriti o Waitangi assessment
16-Feb-2026 Scoop
Usually at this stage of a trade negotiation, Ngā Toki Whakarururanga would have prepared a Tiriti o Waitangi assessment of the recently concluded free trade agreement between India and New Zealand, based on having confidential access to the negotiating text.
India’s trade policy shift in the EU and US trade deals: Serious implications for Indian citizens and its development pathway
13-Feb-2026 Forum for Fair Trade
Serious concerns have been raised about both the lack of transparency in the negotiation process and the potential long-term consequences of the agreements.
The battle over seeds in Latin America: the legal siege and people’s response
13-Feb-2026 GRAIN
Corporate encroachment is increasingly disguised as legal protection. Under laws that allegedly safeguard seeds, doors are opened for their registration, certification, or privatisation.
Food is not a commodity: Mobilization in Bizkaia against EU-Mercosur free trade agreement
5-Feb-2026 La Via Campesina
A caravan of peasant farmers and ranchers with their tractors left from different parts of the province of Bizkaia in Bilbao (Spain) to Bilbao to express their rejection of the free trade policies being promoted by the European Union.
EU-Morocco Statement: autonomy without self-determination, law without lawfulness
5-Feb-2026 WSRW
A joint statement that came out of last week’s EU-Morocco Association Council asks readers to believe in a fiction: that an undefined autonomy plan imposed by an occupying power can satisfy the right to self-determination, and that respect for international law can coexist with the systematic ignoring of the EU’s own highest court.
Trade deals with El Salvador, Guatemala are gifts for tech CEOs
2-Feb-2026 Public Citizen
The Trump administration released a new “Agreement on Reciprocal Trade” with Guatemala, following the nearly identical one released yesterday with El Salvador.
Where is globalisation headed?
31-Jan-2026
The shift in globalisation is not just a bump in the road. It signals a deep transformation of the world economy, its political balances and its power relations.
ISDS vs. the climate: How a colonial-era investment mechanism jeopardises a just transition
30-Jan-2026 CAN Europe
A little-known yet powerful legal mechanism is undermining the energy transition, by enabling fossil fuel companies to sue countries that take climate action.
The law of the jungle
29-Jan-2026 Tribune
Trump’s destructive foreign policy not only reveals the emptiness of the liberal ’rules-based order’, but announces a new approach built on military might and open corporate power.
US tariff policy bulldozing Asia’s agriculture
28-Jan-2026 GRAIN
Asian farmers are bearing the heaviest burden of Washington’s import tariffs. And tariffs are only part of the threat.
Open Letter: Comment on the SIA for the proposed EU-Thailand FTA by FTA Watch
26-Jan-2026 FTA Watch
Thai civil society organizations submitted an open letter on 23 January 2026, provides critical feedback on the Draft Inception Report of the Trade Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) for the proposed EU–Thailand Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The letter highlights key concerns regarding the adequacy and balance of the SIA’s current scope and methodology.
Peasant organizations worldwide express solidarity with French peasants facing criminalization
23-Jan-2026 Vía Campesina
On January 14, 2026, 52 farmers from the Confédération Paysanne were detained following a peaceful occupation of the Ministry of Agriculture in Paris.
Shell files new arbitration against the Netherlands over Groningen gas field closure
22-Jan-2026 SOMO
Shell is suing the Netherlands in yet another attempt to evade its responsibility for decades of gas extraction in Groningen.
ECVC celebrates important victory on EU-Mercosur in the European Parliament
21-Jan-2026 European Coordination Via Campesina
ECVC warmly welcomes today’s vote in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, in which MEPs voted in favour of requesting an opinion from the Court of Justice of the European Union on the compatibility of the proposed EU–Mercosur agreement.
Global civil society statement on Trump’s trade threats
21-Jan-2026 European Trade Justice Coalition
Trump is using tariffs and trade threats to bully other countries in order to maintain US global power. Even though existing trade rules were shaped by US corporations, recently this hasn’t been enough to guarantee US dominance, so Trump is turning to brute force.
US-Malaysia trade deal threatens medicines regulation
21-Jan-2026 AFTINET
The recent US trade deal restricts the rights of Malaysia’s National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA), to conduct its own assessments of safety, efficacy and quality, reflecting national health needs and regulatory priorities.