By Manuel Perez-Rocha and Stuart Trew NAFTA and treaties like it grant transnational companies total freedom of movement for capital, goods, and services, coupled with the ability to sue countries in secret courts when governments attempt to get in their way. (Image: Hernán…
For the Campaign Dismantle Corporate Power FIFA should be considered the Worst Corporation of the World because: Although it is called a ‘non-profit organization’ FIFA uses its World Cup agreements with host countries to protect the investments of…
El Salvador is being sued by Pacific Rim Mining, a Canadian based corporation owned by Australia’s OceanaGold, before the International Center for the Settlement of Investments Disputes –ICSID-. The case will enter a critical stage in January 2014. We…
PRESS COMMUNIQUE Download the full report here: The recently concluded 9th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has produced its first agreement since its establishment in 1995. Trade observers have been quick to call this a historic…
Still from Dark Side of Chocolate documentary by Miki Mistrati and U. Roberto Romano. Eight years after they sued Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Cargill and Nestlé for allegedly forcing them to work as child labor on a Côte d’Ivoire cocoa…
BY IVAN DU ROY With politicians showing unusual agreement among themselves and media focused on the “global” tribute to Nelson Mandela, there has been unanimous praise in France for the South African leader and the struggle against apartheid he embodied. However,…
Open letter to the President of Ecuador Rafael Correa Delgado concerning the dissolution of Fundación Pachamama We the undersigned members of the Global Campaign Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity share the concerns expressed by many social movements…
Friends of the Earth calls for end to secrecy surrounding talks *****Washington/Brussels, December 20 – Friends of the Earth has criticised the secrecy surrounding EU-US trade talks, which closed today in Washington. It warned that public opposition will continue…
Jakarta, December 17, 2013 – The indigenous Suku Anak Dalam (SAD) community of Bungo, in Jambi, Indonesia has struggled for 27 years to regain control of their territory from the palm oil company PT. Asiatic Persada (PT AP). They achieved success in…
BRUSSELS – Negotiations between the United States and European Union for a free trade agreement, which resume this week in Washington, represent one of the biggest threats we have seen in our lifetimes to progress towards our vision of an environmentally…
The ninth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Meeting has come and gone. Held in Bali recently, the WTO succeeded in pushing through a highly imbalanced “Bali package” that delivered an agreement on trade facilitation and in exchange tied the hands…