While the cardinal rule of politics is “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you,” the funders of the Paris Climate Summit want you to kiss the hand that chokes you. The financial conflict of interest behind…
Amsterdam, December 18, 2015 The movement of people across borders, especially into Europe, has been unprecedented in the second half of 2015. European governments as well as the EU Council have failed to address the humanitarian crisis…
International Rights of Nature Tribunal, Paris 5th Dec. 2015 – Fossil fuel extraction- presentations in English and Spanish The third International Rights of Nature Tribunal was held concurrently with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 21) in…
PRESS RELEASE Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity Paris, 14 December 2015 On the occasion of the 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate, held…
Join us in the Peoples Mobilisation to dismantle the Architecture of Impunity and the Corporate Capture of the United Nations Conference on Climate at the “Paris 2015” – COP21! 29 November – 12 December 2015, Paris …
Paris, December 3, 2015 – Chevron, EDF and BNP-Paribas have been awarded Pinocchio Climate Awards today for their roles in undermining climate action and harming local communities [1]. The winners, announced at a ceremony in Paris after a…
Stop Water for Coca-Cola: 18 Village Councils in India For Immediate Release November 26, 2015 New Delhi: Eighteen village councils (panchayats) in the immediate vicinity of the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Mehdiganj in Varanasi district in India have come together…
November 25, 2015 Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises Re: Visit to Brazil in December 2015 Dear Members of the Working Group, The Brazilian organizations, social…
Date 24 November 2015 Time 14:00 – 17:00 Location Transnational Institute, De Wittenstraat 25, 1052 AK Amsterdam Projects Corporate Power, Environmental Justice RSVP Here Public Forum The oil and gas industry ranks…
In the aftermath of the massacres of Paris, members and supporters of Attac, in unison with the French society, feel horror and revulsion at the indiscriminate and murderous hatred. Attac expresses its solidarity with the victims and…
The rough and wrinkled hands of Santos Armendariz are a true reflection of his age and a life dedicated to the fields, without hesitation these marked “No” on the ballot for the referendum to “defend” against metal mining in…
Brazil’s Vale corporation masks brutal exploitation with the language of South-South solidarity. by Judith Marshall Both during and after his two terms in office, former Brazilian president Luis Inácio Lula da Silva staked much of his legacy on…