TTIP: What Are the Implications for World Trade?
IPS Associate Fellow Manuel Pérez-Rocha joins a panel to deconstruct the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and its impacts.
Facing the Threat of the Trans-Pacific Treaty
Damage from 20 years of NAFTA shows us why latest trade deal must be stopped. Free trade creates rich people, poor communities.
The Spooky Side of Chocolate
There’s nothing sweet about child labor.
Food of the Gods
The politics and socioeconomics of chocolate and why it is still a guilty pleasure.
Fair Trade Shopping Event: Fundraiser for Break the Chain Campaign
May 1 is International Worker’s Day, and Villages Alexandria is commemorating with a special shopping fundraiser from 5-7 pm, in which 15 percent of the evening’s sales will be donated to Break the Chain Campaign.
Brown-bag Discussion: Roberto Zamora
Roberto Zamora, the attorney who successfully fought for the adoption of peace as a human right in Costa Rican law, will be in Washington, D.C. to meet with members of the Human Rights Commission of the Organization of the American States (OAS) regarding his petition questioning the constitutionality of the free trade agreement, CAFTA.