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MEPs: China must end mass arbitrary detentions of minorities

MEPs deplore arbitrary arrests and detentions of ethnic minorities and human rights defenders in Xinjiang region, China. Following recent systematic and arbitrary mass detentions of...

EU seized over 31 million fake goods in 2017

European Union customs officials were busy last year with authorities detaining over 31 million fake and counterfeit products at the bloc’s external border in...

EU off to Beijing for WTO reform talks

Ideas for reforming the World Trade Organization (WTO) will be discussed by European Union and Chinese trade officials in Beijing next month. The meeting...

EU, US, Japan talk trade

European Commissioner for Trade, Cecilia Malmström, met with Japan’s Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hiroshigo Seko, and Ambassador Robert E. Lighthizer, United States Trade...

Sixty countries to shut down global trade in torture tools

The Alliance for Torture-Free Trade has announced plans to step up the pace of its efforts and work towards a United Nations instrument (such...

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