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APEC: Fellow Travellers Only
Thursday, 10 November 2011, 8:28 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
There is a long and unpleasant history of security crackdowns and street cleaning associated with APEC. As the road blocs go up in Honolulu this week, I vividly remember the Manila APEC meeting in 1996 where two of three lanes on the main arterial highway ... More >>
Proposed Trans-Pacific Free Trade Deal No Remedy for APEC
Thursday, 10 November 2011, 11:08 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
For years, APEC has been a multi-million dollar talkfest of officials, trade ministers and political leaders that has been hard to justify. In the eyes of the US hosts and its Australian and New Zealand, this year’s forum that began today in Honolulu ... More >>
Jane Kelsey From APEC: Proposed TPP Deal No Rescue Remedy
Thursday, 10 November 2011, 10:42 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
For years, APEC has been a multi-million dollar talkfest of officials, trade ministers and political leaders that has been hard to justify. In the eyes of the US hosts and its Australian and New Zealand, this year’s forum that began today in Honolulu ... More >>
Leaked Text Shows TPP Would Give Backdoor Effect To ACT Law
Tuesday, 25 October 2011, 10:05 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Another secret document from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations has been leaked, the first dealing with issues other than intellectual property and medicines. More >>
Trade Deal Would Give Backdoor Effect to Shunned ACT Law
Monday, 24 October 2011, 2:02 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
Another secret document from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations has been leaked, the first dealing with issues other than intellectual property and medicines. More >>
Details of US Attack on Pharmac in Free Trade
Sunday, 23 October 2011, 5:08 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
The leaking of three further secret texts from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations confirms fears that the US is pushing for rules on healthcare products that would give its pharmaceutical giants new tools to attack national drug ... More >>
TPP Papers Remain Secret for Four Years After Deal
Monday, 17 October 2011, 9:38 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
“The secrecy that shrouds the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations just got even more outrageous”, said Professor Jane Kelsey, who monitors the negotiations. More >>
US White Paper on Medicines issued at TPPA talks in Chicago
Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 4:21 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), facing a deluge of condemnation over the impact of its trade policy on affordable medicines, today issued a four-page white paper entitled ‘Trade Enhancing Access to Medicines (TEAM), Jane Kelsey said. More >>
US Medical Association Wants Tobacco & Alcohol Out Of TPP
Monday, 12 September 2011, 11:54 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Prestigious American Medical Association Wants Tobacco and Alcohol Out of Any Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) More >>
Ben & Jerry deliver 10,000 postcards to US trade negotiator
Thursday, 8 September 2011, 11:12 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Two elderly businessmen struggled to push a dolly cart loaded with boxes of 10,000 postcards addressed to the US Trade Representative to the door of the Chicago Hilton as negotiators launched a new round of negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership ... More >>
Images: Chicago activists protest Trans-Pacific Partnership
Wednesday, 7 September 2011, 12:07 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
A rally of around a thousand unionists, HIV-Aids activists and social justice campaigners in Chicago sent a clear message to negotiators the day before the latest round of Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations began in Chicago. More >>
Chicago Rally Kicks Off Challenge to TPPA Negotiating Round
Wednesday, 7 September 2011, 9:36 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
A rally of around a thousand unionists, HIV-Aids activists and social justice campaigners in Chicago sent a clear message to negotiators the day before the latest round of Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations began in Chicago. More >>
Chicago Week of Action on Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement
Monday, 5 September 2011, 3:58 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
As a major international trade summit begins in downtown Chicago, trade justice activists from the labor, environmental, public health, family farm and consumer movements will be demanding a Fair Deal or No Deal. More >>
Human Rights Commission Rejection of TPP Audit Latest Blow
Monday, 5 September 2011, 9:40 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
The New Zealand Human Rights Commission has declined a request for a scoping study on the human rights implications of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), saying it doesn’t have the resources. More >>
USNZ Council Gives False Comfort on Tobacco Controls
Friday, 8 July 2011, 3:59 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
“The USNZ Council has tried to play down the risks of investment agreements to New Zealand’s regulatory options on tobacco control, but ignores three crucial issues”, said Professor Jane Kelsey from Auckland University. The Council’s press ... More >>
Tobacco Firm Sues Australia over Plain Packaging
Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 9:20 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Tobacco giant Philip Morris announced today that it will use a foreign investment treaty to sue the Australian government for introducing plain packaging tobacco laws. More >>
Key Glosses over Trans-Tasman Differences on TPP Deal
Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 9:33 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
“When Prime Minister John Key addressed the Australian Parliament yesterday he talked about Australia and New Zealand ‘joining forces at the negotiated table’ for a nine-country Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPPA). But the two countries ... More >>
Human Rights Commission Asked to Audit TPP
Friday, 13 May 2011, 9:15 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
A formal request has been made to the Chief Human Rights Commissioner to examine the implications of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) for New Zealand’s international and domestic human rights obligations. More >>
US Drug Companies’ Naked Assault on Pharmac
Monday, 2 May 2011, 2:41 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
The lobby group for the US drug companies, PhRMA has launched a direct and vitriolic attack on Pharmac, the New Zealand drug purchasing body, TPPA-critic Professor Jane Kelsey said. More >>
Call of Solicitor-General to Stay Case against Urewera 18
Wednesday, 27 April 2011, 9:08 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Solicitor-General David Collins has been urged to exercise his discretion to stay the proceedings against the Urewera 18 who are due to face trial in early May, more than three and a half years after their arrest in police raids on 15 October 2007. More >>
