Links about EPAs

Click to go to 'Third World Network - Africa' reports on EPAs.

Click to go to www.epa2007.org current international campaign website

Click to go to www.StopEPA.org previous international campaign on EPAs.

Click to go to www.EPAwatch.net monitoring EPA negotiations / other resources on EPAs.

Statement on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) from the World Social Forum

"Memorandum to the European Commission (EC) at World Social Forum 2007
From: 30,000 citizens at the World Social Forum, Nairobi on January 24th 2007

We the people attending the World Social Forum (WSF) are here today to call on the European Commission to stop negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with our governments. We are deeply concerned that these proposed free trade agreements will exacerbate the current agricultural crisis that farmers already face, increase poverty and violate human rights.

We believe that although a partnership with the European Union (EU) is desirable, the basis of this proposed partnership neither ensures the protection of the rights of citizens or the sovereignty of state, nor does it respect the provision set forth in the Cotonou Agreement that no country should be worse off as a result of such a partnership." (Statement continues).

You can read the full text on this statement at http://www.twnafrica.org/news_detail.asp?twnID=965