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Briefing paper

Public Health at Risk: A US free trade agreement could threaten access to medicines in Thailand

01/04/2006

7 documents

29 pages long

Languages: English, French, Indonesian, Khmer, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese

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Overview

New stringent drug patent and marketing rules being negotiated in a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the US and Thailand would limit competition and reduce access to affordable medicines in Thailand. This would threaten the future of existing successful Thai HIV/AIDS treatment programmes, which rely on inexpensive generic drugs, and thus deprive thousands of people […]

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Briefing paper

No Soft Landing: As China opens its markets, US subsidies are making life hard for cotton farmers

06/12/2005

1 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

China is the world’s biggest producer and consumer of cotton. The development of the textile industry since the 1990s has increased the demand for cotton and benefited millions of Chinese farmers. However, China’s dismantling of state-owned enterprises and liberalisation of its cotton sector as part of its WTO accession commitments have increasingly exposed Chinese farmers […]

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Briefing paper

Truth or Consequences: Why the EU and the USA must reform their subsidies, or pay the price

30/11/2005

1 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The USA and the EU are currently blocking a deal to make trade fair in the Doha Development Round. In the wake of findings by the WTO that US cotton subsidies and EU sugar subsidies are illegal, this paper presents powerful new research detailing a slew of other rich country subsidies of $13bn that are […]

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Briefing paper

A Raw Deal for Rice under DRCAFTA: How the Free Trade Agreement threatens the livelihoods of Central American farmers

01/11/2004

2 documents

57 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

Keywords

Trade policy

Overview

The Free Trade Agreement between the United States and the Central American countries together with the Dominican Republic (DR-CAFTA) threatens the livelihoods of thousands of rice farmers in Central America. It opens the door to massive subsidized US rice exports at prices below the cost of production. If the Agreement is ratified and implemented, a […]

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Briefing paper

Dumping: The Beginning of the End? Implications of the ruling in the Brazil/US cotton dispute

05/08/2004

4 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese

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Overview

Despite their WTO commitments to reduce trade-distorting subsidies, the European Union and the United States have used loopholes and creative accounting to continue dumping products on world markets. In the case of US cotton subsidies, the dispute settlement body of the WTO concluded that such practices hurt developing countries and are in violation of WTO […]

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Briefing note

Free Trade Agreement Between the USA and Thailand Threatens Access to HIV/AIDS Treatment

12/07/2004

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Access to HIV/AIDS medicines makes a huge difference to the lives of infected people and their families. Not only do these medicines help people live longer, they also greatly improve the quality of their lives, reduce the stigma and discrimination that they might experience, and enable them to contribute to the economic and social welfare […]

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Journal article

Look FIRST from a gender perspective: NAFTA and the FTAA

01/07/2004

9 pages long

Free access through journal website

Look FIRST from a gender perspective: NAFTA and the FTAA

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Overview

Advocates for gender and economic justice have been calling for gender and social-impact assessments of trade policies for the past seven years. In 2002, Women’s Edge Coalition completed a Trade Impact Review (TIR), an economic and legal framework to analyse the ways in which women and men may be differentially affected by global trade and […]

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Briefing note

Undermining Access to Medicines: Comparison of five US FTAs: A technical note

01/06/2004

1 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The US government is using bilateral and regional free-trade agreements (FTAs) to impose unnecessarily stringent intellectual property standards on developing countries that go beyond even the damaging requirements of World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules. These new higher standards favour the short-term commercial interests of US pharmaceutical companies, at the expense of public health in developing […]

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Journal article

Myths and realities of the impact of political Islam on women: female employment in Indonesia and Iran

01/06/2004

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Overview

Since the 11 September 2001 attacks on targets in the USA, debates concerning the situation of women in the Muslim world have tended to focus on the extent to which they are victims of religious dogma. Like any other religion, Islam can be oppressive towards women; however, working women are not affected only by religious […]

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Journal article

Challenging relations: a labour-NGO coalition to oppose the Canada-US and North American Free Trade Agreements, 1985-1993

01/02/2004

13 pages long

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In 1987-1988, a national debate erupted in Canada on the desirability of entering into a free trade agreement with the USA and its potential effect on Canadian culture, society, and national sovereignty – as well as its economy. A national coalition of labour unions and civil society groups emerged to oppose such an agreement with […]

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