5th Commemoration of the Marikana Massacre – 16th August
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2017 Permanent Peoples Tribunal (South Africa) – To End Corporate Impunity
The second session of the Southern Africa Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Transnational Corporations will be held on the 15-18th August 2017, in Johannesburg. The Tribunal, hosted by the Southern African Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power, is the second session of…
Medha Patkar arrested again on her way to Badwani
Narmada Bachao Andolan TAKE ACTION : Call or send a message to Dhar Collector : 7694868888 Dhar SP : 9425072424 demanding them to release Medha Patkar and 9 others who have been arrested by them on false charges. …
Harsh sentencing of Aymara leader reveals the politics of criminalization in Peru Aymara leader sentenced to 7 years for protesting against a Canadian mining project
by Sian Cowman and Aldo Orellana López This past month, eighteen Aymara community leaders endured the final stages of a trial that had them facing up to 28 years in prison and massive fines for their alleged…
Signon statement in support of Pablo Solon, Rafael Archondo and against the Bala Chepete megadams
We the undersigned have been inspired by Bolivia’s social movements that have shown that another world is possible. From the Water War in Cochabamba to the approval of a new constitution and a plurinational state in 2009, Bolivia…
Call for Papers: State of Power 2018
The Transnational Institute (TNI) in the Netherlands is issuing an open call for essays/short papers and artistic collaborations for its forthcoming report on the issue of counter-power. TNI’s annual State of Power reports have, since their launch…
We call States to participate actively in upcoming negotiations of the international treaty to ensure protection of human rights from the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises
SIGN THE STATEMENT HERE We welcome the two successful sessions (2015 and 2016) of the United Nations open-ended intergovernmental working group (OEIGWG) on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights exploring the nature, scope,…
OceanaGold, “the gold mining company of choice”? Not in El Salvador or the Philippines
(Ottawa/Washington, D.C./Melbourne) Reviewing OceanaGold reports issued in the lead up to its June 23 annual general shareholders meeting in Toronto, it is difficult to tell that the company was at the centre of international controversy over two of…
Historic Wins for Democracy and Rights in El Salvador
Robin Broad and John Cavanagh | June 19, 2017 Recently there have been two giant wins for democracy, human rights, and the environment in an unlikely spot: the small, embattled nation of El Salvador. The most…
El Salvador – When The Seeds Of Resistance Bloom
On 29th March 2017 legislators in El Salvador approved a blanket ban on all metal mining activities in the country – the first country in the world to do so. The historic vote came just six months…
Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) on the Violations with Impunity of the Human Rights of Migrant and Refugee Peoples
Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) on the Violations with Impunity of the Human Rights of Migrant and Refugee Peoples Save the Date: Launch PPT in Barcelona on July 7-8, 2017 REGISTER HERE SIGN-ON With this…
Friends of the Earth International demands UN Human Rights Council to put pressure on Israel and to condemn human rights violations on the 50th year of Israeli occupation of Palestine
MP3 (4.2 MB) On June 5th, 1967, Israeli military forces attacked Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan armies, in what was the beginning of the “Six-Day War” which resulted in the Israeli seizure of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza…