PRESS RELEASE Conclusions of the Global Campaign on the UNHRC 2nd Session of the “Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights” (OEIGWG) concluding on 28th October 2016 Geneva,…
“Building a UN Treaty on TNCs: A way forward to stop Corporate Impunity”. Proposals to the OEIGWG from the Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity. October 2016 In June 2014, the Human Rights Council…
Week of Peoples Mobilisation in Geneva (Switzerland) from 23th to 29th October FULL PROGRAMME STORIFY #BindingTreaty #StopTNCImpunity Violations of human rights and the rights of peoples and nature have become an all too common part of…
Roundtable: The right to health: The fight of indigenous and peasants for the future generations The cases of Chevron and Syngenta Thursday 27th October 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Maison des associations – Room Wangari Muta Maathai 15,…
Today, the General Attorney of the Republic of El Salvador offered a press conference in Washington D.C. to share the results of the arbitration, about which he had been notified by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes…
14 October 2016 10am-1pm. Hall No. 1 Xavier’s Centre of Historical Research, Alto Porvorim, Goa Updates from struggles: Coca-cola, Unilever, Areva, POSCO, Veolia Vedanta, Adani, Tata, Reliance, Monsanto, Cargill, Dow Chemicals, Lafarge, Maersk, Novartis, Wal-Mart, Arcelor Mittal, etc. …
Release the verdict now! On Friday October 7th, on the eve of the World Bank’s fall meeting, people around the world will demand that a tribunal of the World Bank Group’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) to…
Concepts of peace in dispute 30 September 2016 Article The end of Colombia’s armed conflict will not mean real peace if the neoliberal status quo persists. The peoples of Colombia have real solutions to the country’s environmental and social…
Gresea International Seminar 24th November 2016 Transnational Corporations and Social Movements Forms of resistance in the fragmented corporation Centre des chartreux, Rue des Chartreux, n°70 1000 Brussels Registration is compulsory: info@gresea.be Participation fee: 7 euros (free for unemployed workers, students,…
27 September by Jérôme Duval Nicknamed the “Big Four” Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young (EY), KPMG and Price Water House Coopers (PwC) are the big four audit firms that operate in concert as an inescapable cartel in the…
Document signed by 18 civil society organizations was sent to the State Commission for Environmental Control (Comissão Estadual de Controle Ambiental-Ceca) on 21 September 2016 not to grant an operating license ThyssenKrupp Companhia Siderúrgica do Atlântico (TKCSA)…
Maxima Acuña and her partner were severely hurt Sunday morning in an attack by alleged hitmen hired by the mining company they are fighting against, reported Acuña’s daughter. PLEASE TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION: Sign the petition demanding…