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This site is designed to provide members of the media with timely and accurate information about all aspects of hemispheric trade issues and the Common Frontiers organization.

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Our Latest Media Release:

June 24, 2010
Media Release

Bi-national Delegation to Conduct Human Rights Accompaniment and Observation in Lead-Up to the 1-year Anniversary of the Coup d’État in Honduras

Halifax/Toronto/Vancouver & Tegucigalpa, Honduras – A bi-national delegation of Canadian and US representatives from labour, human rights, and faith-based organizations will be in Honduras from June 24 to July 1, to conduct human rights accompaniment and observation around the one-year anniversary of the coup d’état on June 28. The delegation’s members hope that their presence will mitigate human rights violations by the Honduran military and police, and that they will be able to document any violations that occur.

-Read the Press release

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Recent Media Releases

2009-08-10 - Same old false solutions and short-sighted North American vision from Guadalajara summit, say Canadian civil society organizations

2009-08-06 - Renegotiate the North American agenda, civil society groups ask in letter to Prime minister Harper

2009-06-18 - Civil Society Networks from North America applaud letter to Presidents from Legislators' task force on renegotiating NAFTA

2009-06-12 - Canadians ask Federal Government to Halt Ratification of Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement in Light of Peruvian Police Massacre of Indigenous Protesters

2009-04-07 - A call to stop the imminent implementation of the Canada-Colombia free trade agreement

2009-02-13 - Canadians to Harper: Renegotiate NAFTA with Obama

2008-12-30 - 15 Years of Damage is Enough: NAFTA Must Be Renegotiated (in English) (en español)

2008-10-01 - Canada must renegotiate NAFTA now!

2007-05-10 - The Security and Prosperity Partnership promises poverty and anxiety

2007-02-21 - Ministers of fear and war descend on Ottawa taking North America in the wrong direction (in English) (en français) (en español)
2006-06-6 - Halt S.P.P. and Replace NAFTA

2006-04-18 - Letter to Pascal Lamy, Director General of the WTO

2006-03-27 - Harper must come clean about the security and prosperity partnership

2006-03-10 - Defending public control to the access and use of water

2006-03-6 - Allowing CEOs to set the foreign policy agegnda for North America endangers democracy in Canada (en francais)

2005-10-28 - Soccer star Maradona and Nobel Prize recipient Esquivel to march against ‘free trade' and Bush's presence in Argentina as part of the 3rd Peoples' Summit November 1-5:
“Another Americas is possible”

2005-06-27 - NAFTA-plus Ministerial: Civil society condemns closed-door talks in Ottawa

2005-03-22 - Bush-Martin-Fox Texas summit: Civil society condemns closed-door talks

 

Opinion Pieces

2006-03-5 - World Social Forum Builds Global Community

2005-03-25 - Martin-Bush-Fox Summit in Texas
THE “THREE AMIGOS” GET IT WRONG AGAIN

2004-12-15 - Op-ed on missed FTAA Deadline
FTAA misses New Year’s deadline; will it ever fly?

2004-11-21 - The Canada Trade Mission to Brazil: Partners in development?

2004-11-15 - Has Pierre Pettigrew Read the Romanow Report?

2004-11-01 - The stark reality of Mexican’s lives contrasts with the optimism of President Fox

 

Background Articles

Backgrounder on Common Frontiers

Top 10 Reasons to oppose ‘free trade'

Trading up to hemispheric well being:
Priorities for a Policy of Engagement in the Americas

Planning complete for the III Peoples Summit