’Halt India-EU FTA talks immediately’ http://www.bilaterals.org/spip.php?article19387

Ms. Sharma, who is based in the U.K., called for the suspension of the negotiations until studies had been carried out to ‘assess the likely economic and social risks of the FTA on Indian society.’ “Until now, the talks have been guided by a study that fails to take the FTA’s impact on the informal sector into account – even though over 90 per cent of the Indian economy is informal, so made up of people like street vendors and domestic workers,’’ she said in a statement.Ms. Sharma warned of potential human rights violations as a result of structural changes in India’s informal sector, with women being disproportionately at risk.