Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey Enormous pressure on the non-US ministers in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations is likely to see some governments cave in this afternoon or tomorrow morning on medicines and copyright, according to Professor Jane Kelsey in Singapore.
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Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey Enormous pressure on the non-US ministers in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations is likely to see some governments cave in this afternoon or tomorrow morning on medicines and copyright, according to Professor Jane Kelsey in Singapore.
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Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey Two internal documents from a country inside the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations have been leaked to Huffington Post and published this morning under the headline Obama Faces Backlash Over New Corporate Political Powers In Secret …
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Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey In an outrageous practice borrowed from the WTO, known as green room negotiations, small groups of Ministers are meeting to broker compromise texts to put to the rest of the parties negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Heavy-handed tactics in TPPA talks aim to isolate dissenters Read More »
Press Release – Alistair Woodward and Papaarangi Reid Sixty New Zealand health academics and practitioners have sent a strong message to the government that public health must not be sacrificed on the altar of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement when trade ministers meet in Singapore this weekend.
Health specialists urge not to trade off public health- TPPA Read More »
Press Release – Fair Deal Coalition Today the Fair Deal Coalition has called on Governments involved in the TPP negotiations to reject copyright proposals that would limit the open internet, access to knowledge, and curtail economic opportunity.
Pull TPP provisions that restrict access to knowledge Read More »
Press Release – Beef And Lamb NZ Beef + Lamb New Zealand compiles lamb, mutton and beef export statistics for the country. The 201213 export year concluded on 30 September 2013. The following is a summary and details of the export statistics for the 12-month period.
Sheepmeat and Beef Export Statistics for 2012–13 Read More »
Press Release – Electronic Frontier Foundation After years of secret trade negotiations over the future of intellectual property rights (and limits on those rights), the public gets a chance to looks at the results. For those of us who care about free speech and a balanced intellectual property system …
US Negotiators Still Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms Read More »
Press Release – Wikileaks Today, 13 November 2013, WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter . The TPP is the largest-ever economic treaty, encompassing nations representing more …
Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) IP Chapter Read More »
Article – Creative Freedom Foundation Last week the Creative Freedom Foundation participated in a group briefing and Q&A session with David Walker, NZs Chief Negotiator in the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement , and officials Angela Strahl and Yvonne Woutersen.
TPPA looks set to secretly extend NZ’s Copyright Term Read More »
Speech – New Zealand First Party Thank you for inviting me to speak to you tonight and for your interest in international affairs. Lets start by saying something reasonably obvious, which is that with some exceptions, New Zealand foreign policy is by and large a pretty bipartisan affair.
Winston Peters Speech to Institute of International Affairs Read More »
Press Release – Anti Bases Campaign John Key says that hes allowed to wear big boys pants because New Zealand is a member of The Club (Five Eyes, formally known as the UKUSA Agreement), which he says means that the intelligence agencies of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New …
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