Column – Gordon Campbell Remember the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal, and those scary stories last year about how it would give foreign multinationals the right to sue the countries who sign up to it, if said corporates happen to feel disadvantaged by any laws or regulations …
Gordon Campbell on the TPP’s risk to national sovereignty Read More »
Article – Citizen News 7 May: World Asthma Day Bobby Ramakant, Citizen News Service CNS Asthma causes disabling symptoms in millions of people who struggle to breathe, making ordinary activities extraordinarily difficulty things like going to school, working at …
Access to Medicines Is Key to Reducing Suffering from Asthma Read More »
Press Release – New Zealand Medical Students’ Association – NZMSA Press release: New Zealand medical students concerned about lack of outcomes for protection of patient rights in TPP negotiations The New Zealand Medical Students Association (NZMSA) urges negotiators and politicians to preserve New Zealand’s freedom …
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Press Release – AFTINET As the 16th round of Trans-Pacific trade talks between Australia, the US and nine Asia Pacific countries begin in Singapore this week, academics and health groups will discuss the potential impact on women’s lives of US demands for more corporate …
US TPP trade demands for corporate rights threaten women Read More »
Press Release – Oxfam The United States is again pursuing an important free trade agreement that will lock in high drug prices out of poor peoples reach this time across the Asia-Pacific region, warns international agency Oxfam.
TPPA to exacerbate Vietnam’s access to medicines crisis Read More »
Press Release – Smokefree Coalition More than 400 members of New Zealands medical community have signed a letter to the Prime Minister asking him to be vigilant that our future health is not negotiated away under the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).
Doctors and nurses warn Prime Minister over trade talks Read More »
Press Release – New Zealand First Party New Zealand First is asking why the Government is introducing plain packaging of tobacco products while it is negotiating the deeply-flawed Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement.
Cigarette Plain Packs Will Keep Lawyers Busy for Years Read More »
Press Release – Jane Kelsey Nationals ploy to introduce the law on plain packaging of tobacco products at the end of this year, but not pass it until all the cases pending against Australias law are concluded, will push it well into the next parliamentary term’, says Professor …
National kicks for touch on plain packaging Read More »
Press Release – Green Party The positive health initiative of introducing plain packaging for cigarettes is being undone by the Governments free trade obsession, Green Party health spokesperson Kevin Hague said today.
Free trade deals delay public health initiative Read More »
Speech – New Zealand Government Whether its welfare reform, law and order, education, the rebuild of Christchurch, or continuing our improvements in public services, its full steam ahead.
John Key – Speech to North Harbour Club Read More »
Press Release – New Zealand Nurses Organisation The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is concerned that, despite the Prime Minister’s previous assurances that the fundamentals of New Zealand’s drug buying agency Pharmac would be protected during trade talks, the opposite appears to be the case.
Secret trade deal will affect the cost of health care in NZ Read More »
Column – Gordon Campbell New Zealand has been hosting the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks in Auckland for the past week, but you’d have to say things haven’t worked out quite as well as some had hoped. In fact, it has been a bit sad to watch, up close.
Gordon Campbell: NZ’s embarrassing TPP overtures to the US Read More »
