More Than 400 Civil Society Groups Call for Transparency and Core Principles for International Economic Pacts, While the AFL-CIO Releases New Organizational Resolution Criticizing Direction and Process of TPP Talks WASHINGTON, D.C. – With the sixteenth round of Trans-Pacific Partnership…
The Foreign Ministers of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, meeting in Caracas, approved a special declaration in which they express their opposition to the actions held by Chevron Corporation and Texaco Petroleum Company against Ecuador. Moreover ALBA…
Statement For the dismissal of proceedings against 8 activists of Ecologistas en Acción for condemning the activities of CaixaBank. In December, 2011, Ecologistas en Acción, as a part of their Federal Congress, displayed three placards in the central office of CaixaBank…
EDF suing climate activists for £5million Evidence of police/corporate collusion as police serve legal papers on activists on behalf of EDF, and hand over personal data Key CCTV footage at police station may have been deleted Counter-Terrorism Command visited activist at…
In its code of conduct, Apple claims that it requires its suppliers to uphold its workers’ basic human rights as understood by the international community, and to treat them with dignity and respect. In contrast, our investigations demonstrate that Apple supplier factories are…
It has been nine months since PAN AP launched its campaign to uphold the rights of the indigenous Higaonon peoples to their ancestral land in Opol town of Misamis Oriental in Southern Philippines. The campaign earned its biggest blow when…
The EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is in trouble – big time. That much most analysts, policy makers, politicians, carbon traders, industrial polluters and NGOs agree. When it comes to diagnosis of the causes behind the symptom, prescriptions, or what…
A growing group of civil society organisations[i] is calling on the EU to abolish its Emission Trading System (ETS) to open space for truly effective climate policies. Today they release a joint declaration that highlights the many structural loopholes the ETS…
1.Monsanto sued small famers to protect seed patents, report says2.New Report Exposes Devastating Impact of Monsanto Practices on U.S. Farmers NOTE: For the full report: http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Seed-Giants_final.pdf——1.Monsanto sued small famers to protect seed patents, report saysPaul Harris in New YorkThe Guardian, 12 February *Agricultural giant…
By Cecilia Olivet and Pia Eberhardt Corporations have been granted the exclusive right to sue states (states cannot sue corporations) at secretive international tribunals for action deemed to unfairly affect investors’ profits. While worldwide attention was centred recently on the World Economic Forum…
MONROVIA, LIBERIA, February 1st, 2013 – Palm oil companies are grabbing more than 1.5 million acres of land in Liberia and are violating the human rights of local communities, warn Liberian NGOs including Friends of the Earth Liberia (SDI –…
There are some stories which need to be repeated. This is not only because they are exemplary narratives or contain vibrant lessons for us but because their end is yet to be written. As one moves along, new characters, conversations…