Congrats to Bernd Lange re-elected as chair of INTA Committee Press👏 We fight for fair and rules-based trade. Might does not make right – Paris Agreement, SDGs and ILO workers' rights must at the heart of our trade policy. It's more than trading goods, it's about shaping globalisation!

Last day of the #civilsociety awareness raising workshop on the SADC-EU #EconomicPartnershipAgreement, gathering CSOs & trade officials of 6 #SADC countries. Thanks GIZ for the interesting event and for the invitation!

When discussing #FairTrade, governments -and their responsibility- are the elephant in the room. Jan Orbie & I wrote an OpEd on why the #EU hands-off approach doesn't come even close to making trade really fair euractiv.com/section/econom…

"We reject that large #banana producers, traders & exporters, in order to maximize profits, want to maintain production patterns that threaten the health of rural populations living in banana plantations' areas of influence, of agricultural workers, of consumers and of nature"

Volg #BeterNaCorona, draag bij vanuit je beweging of engagement, publiceer op één van onze platformen. Met: Aktief, apache/, DeWereldMorgen.be, De Gids, Furia, @KifKifbe, LavaMedia, Denktank Minerva, MO*magazine, @OikosDenktank, Samenleving & Politiek sampol.be/2020/04/betern…

The #Covid_19 pandemic has fundamentally questioned how society should be organised to ensure health & wellbeing for all Going forward, the guiding principle for recovery should be resilience Dirk Holemans explains what this means in practice 📝Full Text➡️ bit.ly/ResilienceUnde…

Interesting read to understand how #EUtrade policy can be impacted by #CoronaCrisis Jan Orbie & @FerdiDeVille's 5 cents: 1: We don’t know 2: Paradigm change: a basic framework 3: Neoliberalism is resilient & re-inventive 4: The alternative may not be romantic 5: Agency matters

Deze avond wordt op de gemeenteraadscommissie de beleidsnota internationale solidariteit voor de komende legislatuur gepresenteerd. Digitaal uiteraard 😉 Jullie kunnen de krachtlijnen en de volledige beleidsnota terugvinden in dit persbericht. persruimte.stad.gent/188018-stap-vo…

📢Join UGent Oxford style debates on #sustainability w/ our students tomorrow! 18:00 Intro 18:15-21:00 Three debates on: Environment: bongo-eu.youseeu.com/sync-activity/… Politics (w/ Sarah Delputte): bongo-eu.youseeu.com/sync-activity/… Health: bongo-eu.youseeu.com/sync-activity/… Food: bongo-eu.youseeu.com/sync-activity/…

The European Commission will propose new rules on mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence in EU companies’ global supply chain, justice commissioner Didier Reynders has confirmed. bit.ly/3d2JU2x

Findings in The Guardian on #labour rights violations in Costa Rican #pineapple plantations confirm our research. To know more about the link between these workers' job insecurity & labour agency and how they stay under the radar, read this article: link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…

And if you want to know more about labour governance initiatives in the Costa Rica-EU trade: We analysed #TradeUnion participation to multistakeholder initiatives (incl in #EUTradeAgreements) in this supply chain: mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/1… Jan Orbie Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent

We need mandatory human rights due diligence that works for farmers and workers 🌎👩‍🌾 New FTAO and Brot für die Welt-commissioned report by Uni of Greenwich lays out how 👉bit.ly/2zX5MPb #BizHumanRights #HRDD #TradeFairLiveFair #JustTransition

📢 Tiffany Novitz writes on "The normative promise of sustainability for labour standards – and the limitations of the SDGs" for our #DebatingSDGs blog 📖 globalstudies.ugent.be/the-normative-… #SDGs

🆕Join .EUROPEAN TRADE UNIONS, .ITUC, RBC Working Group and .Olivier De Schutter on “Regulating responsible business conduct: a coherent approach for Europe and the World”, on Monday 22th June 2020 at 10:30. Feel free to share this invite. ⬇️Register here ⬇️ my.demio.com/ref/rpWB4rDM5v…

Civil society can promote sustainability in Free Trade Agreements between 🇪🇺 & other countries. Jeske van Seters & Nadia Ashraf provide 📑 recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of civil society contributions in their latest paper Read it today👉 bit.ly/2ZMAMKe

"Enkel e eerlijke consumentenprijs voor e kwalitatief hoogstaand product uit eigen land kan er voor zorgen dat onze bedrijven gezond worden, dat we e eerlijke vergoeding voor onze producten ontvangen, dat wij onze medewerkers fatsoenlijk kunnen betalen..." #northnorth #fairtrade