The ITUC has described a $300m claim against El Salvador by an Australian/Canadian mining conglomerate as an example of the worst excess of corporate greed. The claim is being decided in a tribunal under the tainted “Investor-State…
– Report denounces rights violations committed by Vale – More than 30 cases in three continents are presented in the document produced by the InternationalArticulation of those Affected by Vale – The report gathers several allegations of human and environmental rights violations, such asforced labor, espionage and irregular environmental licensing – Vale Unsustainability Report 2015 will be available for download on the …
Dare to publish a scientific study against Big Biotech, and Monsanto will defame and discredit you. For the first time, a Monsanto employee admits that there is an entire department within the corporation with the simple task of ‘discrediting’ and ‘debunking’ scientists who…
17 April 2015: International Day of Peasant and Farmer Struggle against Transnational Companies and Free Trade Agreements (Zimbabwe, Harare, March 30, 2015) La Via Campesina declared April 17th as the International Day of Peasant Struggle in order to highlight the struggle…
Right now President Zuma is reading the findings of the Farlam Commission of inquiry. Almost 3 years after the Marikana Massacre, the Farlam Commission investigating the massacre has handed its findings to President Zuma. 34 miners were gunned down by…
In a surprising turn of events, Shell has officially endorsed a SumOfUs-backed shareholder resolution committing the company to take action against climate change. But Shell is still lobbying to block any kind of real climate solutions in the run-up to the UN…
Hundreds denounced a secret tribunal housed at the World Bank that is getting ready to rule on a case that could determine the future of El Salvador’s water supply. By Manuel Perez-Rocha Three environmental and human rights heroes came…
How international investment rules undermine agrarian justice Pietje Vervest Timothé Feodoroff The investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clause present in many trade treaties give investors far-reaching protection, curtailing governments’ ability to regulate for progressive agrarian and agricultural policies and reinforcing the…
Farmers in Uganda evicted by oil palm plantations are today presenting a lawsuit against a joint venture co-owned by the oil palm giant Wilmar International [1]. They are claiming restitution for their grabbed land and fair compensation for damages,…
Maputo, Mozambique, 20 February 2015 – We, more than 40 farmers and members of civil society, women and men, from Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and Ivory Coast, met in Maputo, Mozambique, from 17 to 20 February 2015…
Support the rainforest people for the remediation of the Amazon. The Union for Those Affected by Texaco Operations (UDAPT) has been fighting for more than 20 years to force Chevron-Texaco to pay for the ravaging contamination it caused in the…
Coalmining firm damned in report on lobbying that denounces private-sector’s role in climate negotiations, published in Lima to coincide with Cop20 ‘No to mining’ is the demand of marchers on a demonstration over government subsidies in Colombia last year. Photograph:…