The French company Total, along with other multinationals, has recently started oil and gas exploration off Western Saharan – a territory which has been under Moroccan occupation for almost forty years. These activities raise ethical issues about consultation with…
PARTICIPANTS’ ‘VOTING WALL’ AT THE PEOPLES’ FORUM ON HUMAN RIGHTS & BUSINESS SIGN ON HERE & JOIN THE 150+ GROUPS WHO ALREADY HAVE! This statement has been endorsed by a wide alliance of international networks, organizations and social movements, listed…
History Timeline of key developments in the struggle to establish an international system of accountability for transnational corporate human rights abuses: 1972-1992 Since the early 1970s there have been concerted efforts to develop binding international systems to regulate corporations…
Launch Global Campaign Against Company and its Products Oakland, CA – Community leaders from several countries, including indigenous and farmer communities from the rainforest of Ecuador, announced today a worldwide call for global day of actions in opposition to Chevron to…
Campaigners Pia Eberhardt and Arthur Stamoulis discuss what has been learned so far about challenging investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), as the European Commission consults on its use in the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership By Thomas Mc Donagh and Aldo…
Around the world, countries are rejecting exactly the kinds of dispute mechanisms that the EU/US trade deal is trying to foist on us. Image – Corporate Europe Observatory The Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a massive trade agreement,…
EU and US are currently negotiating a trade and investment agreement. How will this deal affect people from both regions and around the world? See reflections from EU and US activists who gathered to discuss about the impacts and possible…
The environmental federation Friends of the Earth International announced its support today for a campaign exposing the discriminatory practices of Israeli state water company Mekorot in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. [1] A ‘Week of Action Against Mekorot’ co-organised by PENGON…
Join us on 24 April: Thursday 24 April will mark the anniversary of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh – the worst disaster in the history of the fashion industry that killed over 1,100 people, mainly female…
The Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT) project launches today its Global Atlas of Environmental Justice, a visually attractive and interactive online mapping platform detailing around 1000 environmental conflicts (and growing). It allows users to search and filter across 100 fields…
A new study debunks eight falsehoods the mining corporation OceanaGold has used to try to justify mining in El Salvador and undermine public debate and policymaking. Vancouver-based Pacific Rim Mining, recently acquired by Australian-Canadian firm OceanaGold, has been trying to access…