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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 >>
Trans Pacific Partnership Negotiations Petition April 2011
Tuesday, 12 April 2011, 5:18 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
Respectfully requests: That you, as our elected representatives, take an active role in ensuring that the negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) are opened to transparent and participatory processes from this time forward. More >>
Too Many Precedents To Refuse To Release TPPA Text, Papers
Tuesday, 12 April 2011, 5:16 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
The New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade claims the negotiating process for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is following the standard FTA model and there is no precedent for release of the draft texts or negotiating documents. That ... More >>
Petition Seeking Transparency and Debate on TPP Negotiations
Tuesday, 12 April 2011, 5:13 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
A petition signed on behalf of sixteen major New Zealand organisations [1] seeking greater transparency in the current negotiations for a Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement has been received by Hon Maryan Street, Foreign Affairs and Trade Spokesperson ... More >>
Appeal to UN Rapporteur on Health to Intervene in TPPA
Wednesday, 30 March 2011, 3:27 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Anand Grover, has been asked to issue an Urgent Appeal to the governments negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) The sixth round of talks is underway in Singapore this week. The ... More >>
Another Leak Confirms Extreme US Demands in TPP Deal
Wednesday, 16 March 2011, 1:30 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
Leaks continue to beleaguer the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) even as the participating governments circle the wagons around the negotiating process, said Professor Jane Kelsey, a critic of the proposed TPPA. The full text of the US ... More >>
Another Leak Confirms Extreme US Demands in TPP Deal
Tuesday, 15 March 2011, 10:03 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Leaks continue to beleaguer the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) even as the participating governments circle the wagons around the negotiating process, said Professor Jane Kelsey, a critic of the proposed TPPA. More >>
National must press Labour’s call to end TPPA secrecy
Saturday, 19 February 2011, 11:13 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
National must press Labour’s call to end TPPA secrecy at US/NZ council meeting More >>
Key’s Use of CER a Foretaste of a TPPA
Friday, 18 February 2011, 9:18 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Last year the National-led government backed off its intention to further weaken New Zealand’s foreign investment laws after it faced a groundswell of public opposition. Instead, it made some mild moves to tighten those controls. On Wednesday, the government ... More >>
New leaks of TPPA text show U.S. is playing hardball
Thursday, 17 February 2011, 2:06 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
There has been another leak of the secret documents at the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations in Santiago this week, this time involving United States’ negotiating text. The text confirms that the Americans are taking an extremely aggressive position ... More >>
International Civil Society Demands End to Secrecy in TPPA
Wednesday, 16 February 2011, 10:33 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Negotiators in Santiago, Chile for the fifth round of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks were delivered a forceful message today by prominent civil society groups, demanding an end to the secrecy that shields their negotiations from the scrutiny ... More >>
Leaks and lockouts as TPPA negotiations begin in Santiago
Tuesday, 15 February 2011, 4:24 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
The first day of Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations in Chile has started where the Auckland round left off. New Zealand and intellectual property are again at the centre of the leaks. “We have seen a copy of the draft text tabled by New Zealand ... More >>
Critical Paper Links TPPA to Financial Instability
Tuesday, 15 February 2011, 11:17 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
Negotiators on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) meeting for a fifth round of talks in Santiago this week will be presented with a mock draft text and expert analysis that links the proposed agreement to continued financial instability.* More >>
Economists condemn restriction of capital controls in TPP
Tuesday, 1 February 2011, 2:09 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
More than 250 international economists, including some of the best-known commentators on the global financial crisis, have signed an open letter calling on the US government to remove of capital controls from the ambit of its free trade agreements, including ... More >>
Govt must act now to stop US dictating Internet liability
Monday, 17 January 2011, 11:10 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
“A campaign by the US entertainment industry to use the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) to make Internet firms liable for illegal downloads by their users needs to be headed off at the pass”, said Professor Jane Kelsey, a strong critic ... More >>
Wikileaks Exposes Government Duplicity on TPP
Monday, 20 December 2010, 10:14 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
“The government should stop its propaganda campaign to sell the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement to unsuspecting New Zealanders and tell them what it has told the United States government itself,” said Professor Jane Kelsey, author of a book ... More >>
Leaked Paper - NZ U.S. Rift On Intellectual Property In TPPA
Sunday, 5 December 2010, 10:05 am | Professor Jane Kelsey
On the eve of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations in Auckland, a leaked negotiating document has exposed a fundamental conflict between the US and New Zealand positions on intellectual property. More >>
Groups urge PMs to reject US investment demands
Saturday, 4 December 2010, 1:50 pm | Professor Jane Kelsey
Australian and NZ groups urge PMs to reject US investment demands next week Just days before next week’s talks in Auckland on the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), civil society groups from Australia and New Zealand have sent a joint open ... More >>
