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Philippines: Union leader shot dead – demand justice and an end to impunity now
In partnership with the International Transport Workers Federation, a global federation of 690 unions representing over 4.5 million transport workers in 153 countries, and the Alliance of Progressive Labor, a national trade union center in the Philippines. Antonio “Dodong” Petalcorin, the…
Do Not Force-Feed Nigerians with GMOs
It is with shock and extreme disappointment that we note the position of two ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that the country should import and consume genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The reports quote the ministers of Agriculture ,…
Private Gain, Public loss: Mailbox companies, tax avoidance and human rights
Mailbox companies, tax avoidance and human rights This report examines the human rights record of eight extractive industry companies incorporated in the Netherlands and discusses the Dutch states responsibility regarding the human rights of the people affected by these business…
Free Trade Agreement with the European Union must be declared unconstitutional
The National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining submitted a letter to the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of El Salvador to ask that the Free Trade Agreement with US, Central America and the Dominican Republic CAFTA-DR be declared unconstitutional. In…
Impunity Inc. – Reflections on the “super-rights” and “super-powers” of corporate capital
Forty years after Salvador Allende denounced corporate power at the United Nations General Assembly (December 1972), millions of people all over the world are involved in struggles against the human rights violations and the social and environmental injustice generated…
Protect forests, reject landgrabs: Tell investors to stop bankrolling big palm oil
Industrial agriculture has long been a major cause of forest destruction, but the ceaseless expansion of palm oil plantations for food, fuel and cosmetics is wreaking havoc on an unprecedented scale, and has become the biggest single cause of forest…
European Banks and Pension Funds Fuel Land Grabs in Uganda
KAMPALA (UGANDA) / BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) May 21, 2013 – European banks and pension funds are funding palm oil giant Wilmar International, a company implicated in land grabbing in Uganda, according to new research released today. [1] British, Dutch, French and…
From Whence the Wood?
Supply chain transparency and the origin of solid biomass for electricity generation in the Netherlands The use of solid biomass as feedstock for electricity generation is becoming an increasingly prominent and controversial topic in the global debate about the transition…
Breathless for Blue Jeans: health hazards in China’s denim factories
The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) alongside with War on Want, SACOM and IHLO release new research that shows that the practice of sandblasting – used in order to give jeans a worn or ‘distressed’ look – is still widespread in…
The Financing of Sime Darby by European Financial Institutions
This report assesses the financing of the Malaysian palm oil company Sime Darby by European financial institutions in the past four years (since July 2009). The largest European shareholders of Sime Darby are the Norwegian Government Pension Fund –…
Illegitimate Operations
Arbitrary arrest and charges brought against Bertha Caceres, leader of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras – COPINH On Friday 24, on the 53rd day of the roadblock in Rio Branco carried out by the Lenca…