Economic Partnership Agreements

What are EPAs?

admin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:04:56 +0000

If the new trade agreements are skewed in favor of Europe’s rich countries, then they are more likely to increase rather than reduce poverty.

Protesters unite around the world against EU's unfair Free Trade Deals

Joel M Bassuk — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:26:27 +0000

International Stop EPAs DAY.

Oxfam says to EU Ministers: more aid, no free trade deals

Joel M Bassuk — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:45:20 +0000

European Development Ministers meeting in Brussels tomorrow as part of the General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) must agree not to force free trade deals on African,

Ministers are running out of opportunities to stop unfair trade deals between the EU and ACP

Joel M Bassuk — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:03:53 +0000

As Ministers from Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) meet their European counterparts in Brussels today to review o

NGOs denounce EU pressure over new African Trade deals

Joel M Bassuk — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:38:59 +0000

African Union & UN conclude no region ready to sign EPA this year.

Oxfam International takes part in the World Social Forum’s focus on Africa

Joel M Bassuk — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:58:58 +0000

Oxfam has programmed various activities at the WSF concerning the Make Trade Fair, Rights in Crisis and Control Arms campaigns.

Oxfam warns EU-ACP free trade deals are unfair - Call for comprehensive review

Noirfatom — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:12:38 +0000

The European Union must urgently change its negotiating position on free trade deals with some of the world’s poorest countries or risk sinking them further into poverty, inter

Rio G20 meeting must set new tone for trade talks, says Oxfam

Joel M Bassuk — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:03:39 +0000

The meeting of the Group of 20 developing countries, and invited guests this weekend in Rio de Janeiro must reorientate global trade talks towards development, said international age

Oxfam warns of threat of regional trade deals for poor countries

Joel M Bassuk — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:22:34 +0000

With negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) suspended indefinitely, international agency Oxfam today warned of the danger posed to developing countries by the proliferati

One year on from Gleneagles, Civil Society calls on the African Union to hold G8 to its promises

Joel M Bassuk — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:49:44 +0000

Banjul, The Gambia – Four leading African and International non-governmental organizations today called on African Heads of States, gathering in Banjul for the 7th Ordinary Ses