• Peru Agreement - Organizational Sign-On  March, 2007

Organizations are invited to sign on to the Public Health Critique and Fixes, which recommends how to fix the pending U.S.-Peru Trade Agreement to conform with the 7 Public Health Objectives for Global Trade.  Organizations can sign on to as many of the 7 statements as they wish.    We invite you to review this document and indicate which of the 7 statements you are signing on to by Thurs. 3/22, by email to: ershaffer@cpath.org

The 7 areas addressed are:

1.   Assure democratic participation by public health and transparency in trade policy:
2.   Sustainable economic development
3.   Government sovereignty to promote and protect population health, including laws on public health, the environment and labor.
4.   Exclude vital human services such as health care, water supply and sanitation, food safety and supply, and education, including licensing and cross-border movement of personnel
5.   Exclude tobacco products
6.   Exclude alcohol beverages
7.   Eliminate intellectual property provisions related to pharmaceuticals, and promote trade provisions which enable countries to exercise all flexibilities provided by the Doha Declaration on Public Health