(Geneva, September 28, 2018) Seventeen years of long and arduous negotiations later, peasants and other people working in rural areas are only a step away from having a UN Declaration that could defend and protect their rights to land, …
Play the audio OR download it from here Download audio Friends of the Earth Togo welcomed on September 7th the decision made by the government to ban the use of glyphosate on national territory, and urged to…
The case of Chevron in the Ecuadorian Amazon with Pablo FAJARDO and Justino PIAGUAJE Tuesday 16th October, 7:30 pm at the Maison des associations (Rue des Savoises, 15, Geneva) Four Ecuadorian courts have condemned…
Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity UNHRC 39th Session Geneva, 19th September 2018 Statement Re: EU JST on OEIGWG’s procedures. With a new maneuver at the UNHRC, the EU aims at protecting…
Justiça Ambiental submitted a case to the Administrative Court of the Province of Tete (ACPT) in February 2016. The proceedings concerned the behavior of the Government and mining company JINDAL, which results in a breach of the fundamental rights and…
Groups call for the annulment of sentence against Aymara spokesperson in the Peruvian Supreme Court More than one hundred organizations call for the annulment of sentence against Aymara spokesperson in the Peruvian Supreme Court and reject the unjust payment…
Statement 12 September 2018 The Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity, a network of over 200 social movements, networks, organizations and affected communities resisting the land grabs, extractive mining, exploitative wages and…
Lago Agrio, September 10, 2018.- Once the arbitration award regarding the lawsuit that the oil company Chevron pursued against the Ecuadorian State – known as Chevron III – has been made public, members of the UDAPT stated that…
CLICK HERE OR THE ABOVE BANNER TO SIGN Six years since the Marikana massacre and life around the mine is still dire. We call on ABSA to use it’s power as shareholder in Lonmin and Sibanye-Stillwater mines…
JOIN US IN GENEVA FROM OCT 13 to 20, 2018 2018 WILL BE A DECISIVE YEAR FOR THE BINDING TREATY ON TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS! BE THERE TO RECLAIM PEOPLES RIGHTS OVER INVESTORS AND CORPORATE PROFITS AND IMPUNITY …
17 August, 2018 Re: Publication of the “Zero Draft” text for the negotiation of a Legally Binding Instrument to Regulate, in International Human Rights Law, the activities of Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and other Business Enterprises. (1) We…
This August will be the sixth anniversary of South Africa’s Marikana massacre. On 16th August 2012, 34 striking miners were killed by South African police at London-listed mining company Lonmin’s platinum mine. To show solidarity and to…