The Geopolitics of Trade Deals and How They Threaten Human Rights
Trade deals have less to do with trade and more to do with politics
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Why May's "Net Zero" commitment on climate change won't survive her successor's trade policy
CLIMATE JUSTICE: How trade deals stand in the way of climate action and the UK's Net Zero ambitions.
Trade justice must recover steam
Campaigners should press for fairness in post-Brexit agreements
Customs union leaves everything to play for on trade justice
A customs union would still allow the UK to negotiate trade deals – so let's focus on how such deals affect our rights, and what say we have over them
Race to the bottom: How trade deals are undermining standards that protect us.
'Better regulation' isn't always better, and 'regulatory cooperation' is often cooperating to deregulate.
Theresa May is treating parliament like she’s a freewheeling PM of the 1920s
When it comes to Brexit and trade deals, MPs only get a say at the last minute. Our outdated system of treaty scrutiny needs to change.
ISDS - The big threat to human rights hidden in our trade deals
This human rights threat could be inserted into every post-Brexit trade deal and is already part of many exisiting UK investment deals.
The problem with CRAG: why Parliament’s processes for approving trade deals needs reform
How a genuinely democratic system for approving international trade agreements could look in post-Brexit Britain
