By Daniela Marin Platero and Laila Malik Dedicated to all Salvadoran women who have actively resisted and defended their territories, to all those who continue to resist, and to those who have passed on as a result of…
CANBERRA, Australia – An Australian subsidiary of U.S. energy giant Chevron Corp. lost a court appeal on Friday against a 340 million Australian dollar ($260 million) tax bill in a ruling with ramification for how multinational corporations transfer…
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) ” The government of El Salvador has seized properties, vehicles and bank accounts tied to OceanaGold because it says the company has not paid its legal costs after losing a decision in an international…
El Salvador made history last week by becoming the first country ever to ban metal mining. The success of this decades long struggle is proof that people can take on corporate interests and win. This is…
11th of APRIL : BNP’s TRIAL Tomorrow, Florent Compain, President of Friends of the Earth France, will be judged in Bar-le-Duc (France), because of his participation to a non-violent action of “chairs requisition” (requisition of chairs in banks implied…
Amidst the deepening political crisis in which South Africa is mired, another slow-burning crisis is playing out in our food and farming systems as three mega mergers are being sewn up. According to a report…
On March 29, 2017, the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador passed a historic law through which it bans, with a retroactive effect, the extraction of precious metals in its territory. The decision is the result of two decades of…
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Weeks before the Universal Periodic Review, a delegation from Ecuador comes to Europe to give an account of the human right to adequate food and nutrition of peasant and indigenous communities in the country. In May, the Ecuadorian…
Coca-Cola Will Use Gov’t Partnership to Promote Unhealthy Products For Immediate Release March 29, 2017 New Delhi: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) – the country’s premier government organization responsible for protecting and promoting…
This morning, March 29, at 11 AM (1 PM ET), the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador will schedule a vote to approve a proposed Law to Ban Metal Mining. If politicians from all parties keep their promise, tomorrow…
Download: MP3 (6.5 Mb) In light of the approval by the European Commission of the $130 billion mega-merger between agribusiness corporations Dow Chemical and Du Pont, and anticipating similar authorizations for other agribusiness giants, organizations warn that a…