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<p><big>We have the pleasure to send your the last seventh electronic report edited by CETIM.<br>This reports are also available in French and Spanish and they can be downloaded or printed on our website:<b> <a href="http://www.cetim.ch/fr/publications_cahiers.php" target="_blank">http://www.cetim.ch/en/publications_cahiers.php</a></b><br>
Do not hesitate to forward this reports to your networks !<br>Please, let us know if you are no longer interested in receiving our further reports.<br>The CETIM team</big><br><b><br><br>Succinct Presentation of This Report:</b><br>
<b><u>INTERNATIONAL, REGIONAL, SUBREGIONAL AND BILATERAL FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS</u></b><br>There is a dense network of economic and financial agreements and treaties – international, regional, sub-regional and bilateral – that have superseded the basic instruments<br>
of international and regional human rights, including the right to a safe environment. Constitutions and national laws intended to promote harmonious national<br>development and political, economic, social, cultural and environmental human rights have been subordinated to them.<br>
<br>This network, as a consequence of the implementation of “most favourable treatment”, “national treatment” and “most favoured nation” clauses that appear<br>in almost every treaty, works as an interconnecting system that allows neo-liberal policies to operate freely on a planetary scale and penetrate countries<br>
where they result in the dismantling of national economies, provoking grave social harm.<br><br>All this involves the primacy of the interests of capital over the democratic and human rights of peoples. Liberalization and privatization policies are coalescing into a<br>
legally binding system. And these policies are being made irreversible through international agreements.....<br><br>-- <br>CETIM - Centre Europe-Tiers Monde<br> Genève<br><a href="http://www.cetim.ch/" target="_blank">www.cetim.ch</a> </p>
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