Statement: To confront the climate emergency we need to dismantle the WTO and the free trade regime

Statement

Launched in 1995, the World Trade Organization (WTO) completed the Bretton Woods trio with the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund in promoting neoliberalism and corporate globalization. The WTO was particularly special in its power to legally enforce and●●●

News, Statements

From Main Street to Wall Street, U.S. banks and brands support illegal forest destruction for palm oil

Friends of the Earth, Forest Heroes and SumOfUs

International investigation names brands and investors behind commodity’s boom WASHINGTON, D.C./JAKARTA – Illegal and destructive production of palm oil in Indonesia is continuing, with a chain of culpability that spreads worldwide, from Southeast Asian rain forests to supermarket shelves and Wall●●●

Analysis Research, News

Indonesian tin: the dirty secret behind Apple’s and Samsung’s smartphones

Multinationals Observatory

Apple, Blackberry, Nokia, Samsung : giants of the electronics industry … who don’t really seem to know from where some of their raw material comes from. Tin is essential for the welds in the electronic plates of smartphones or tablets.●●●

News