The High Cost of Walmart’s 50th Birthday
Dismantle Corporate Power
Marikana Mine Massacre
No event since the end of Apartheid sums up the shallowness of the transformation in this country like the Marikana massacre. What occurred will be debated for years. It is already clear the mineworkers will be blamed for being violent.…
Uncertain Futures – The impacts of Sime Darby on communities in Liberia
Local Liberian communities suffer from the expansion of Sime Darby’s palm oil plantation in Liberia, which swallows up their farms and farmlands. Most of the men and women in the affected villages are now out of work, with very few…
CIVIL SOCIETY TO LAUNCH ITS OWN INDEPENDENT INQUIRY INTO THE MARIKANA MASSACRE
On Wednesday 22 August, civil society organisations – faith-based, non-governmental and community-based organisations, social movements and trade unions – will initiate an independent civil society-led inquiry into the massacre of more than 34 mineworkers at Marikana. The launch will take place at a…
Exploitation. It’s not ok here. It’s not ok anywhere.
As Adidas take centre stage as the official sportswear partner of London 2012, the harsh reality of life for the workers who make their clothes is being exposed. Workers making Adidas clothes around the world are paid poverty wages, have…
9th Asia-Europe Peoples Forum (AEPF9)
“People’s Solidarity against Poverty and for Sustainable Development: Challenging Unjust and Unequal Development, Building States of Citizens for Citizens” The Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF) is an inter-regional network of progressive civil society and social movements across Asia and Europe.…
SHELL: Worse than bad
May 22th Shell has held its annual shareholdersmeeting in The Hague. To our disappointment, but unfortunately not to our surprise, Shell hardly addressed the environmental and social problems it causes in the Niger Delta. Answers to questions were insufficient. Proposals…
Video from a Week of Action in Brussels for an Alternative Investment Regime
International investment treaties grant transnational investors too many privileges and thus compromise the rights of citizens and states, critics say. The video No more corporate privileges gives an impression of the concerns of experts and activists.
Enel Today and Tomorrow
Hidden Costs of the Path of Coal and Carbon versus Possibilities for a Cleaner and Brighter Future The electricity provided by power companies and the employment that electricity provision creates are economic goods that benefit society and drive economic and…
Restricted Rights: Migrant women workers in Thailand, Cambodia and Malaysia
The story of thousands of migrant women workers is revealed in the new report launched by War on Want and the Asian Migrant Centre. The report presents the appalling conditions faced by women who have to migrate because of poverty and…
Freedom of association in the electronics industry
Briefing paper In this briefing paper, SOMO investigates the role of electronics brands in ensuring that freedom of association and collective bargaining is respected all along their supply chain. Download whole publication: Freedom of association in the electronics industry.pdf (Size 276.5…
Young women exploited in Indian garment industry
Despite industry’s promises, young Dalit women continue to suffer exploitative conditions European and US garment brands and retailers have failed in their attempts to structurally improve labour conditions at their suppliers in Tamil Nadu, South India. Despite corporate promises and…