Coca-Cola’s Conduct in India Violate Fund’s Ethical Guidelines For Immediate Release July 1, 2015 San Francisco: Activists from India and Norway are calling on Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global – the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund – to exclude…
Written contribution of the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity to the first session of the intergovernmental working group mandated with the elaboration of an international legally binding instrument on transnational corporations (TNCs) and other…
From 6 to 10 July 2015, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will convene an unprecedented process that has the potential of providing new avenues for access to justice for communities affected by human rights violations committed by…
A Friends of the Earth International´s delegation is present in Geneva, Switzerland, where the UN´s Human Rights Council is holding its sessions, aiming to urge several governments to participate in the intergovernmental panel of the Council to start defining…
Joining the expanding list of GMO rejections Due to ‘disappointing yields and poor quality cotton fiber,” the country of Burkina Faso in West Africa is ditching Monsanto’s genetically modified cotton. JeuneAfrique reports that…
From the Brazilian Amazon to the German automakers The production depicts in 28 minutes the daily life of the communities impacted by the Programa Grande Carajás (Great Carajás Programme), the world’s largest iron ore mining project in the…
On occasion of the EU-CELAC Summit, collectives and organisations from Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean gathered in Brussels during three Days of Mobilization for Peoples Sovereignty against the power of multinational corporations and the Architecture of Impunity established…
On the anniversary of the UNHRC resolution, as states prepare for the first meeting of the intergovernmental working group for the elaboration of a UN Treaty on transnational corporations and human rights (6-10 July 2015 in Geneva), this…
Press release – Monday 8th June 2015 Social movements Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty Against Corporate-led Trade promoted at the European and Latin American Summit A broad coalition ofsocial movements from Latin America and Europe organise three days…
Days of Mobilisation VS EU CELAC Summit Reclaiming Peoples Sovereignty against the Corporate-led Trade and Investment Architecture On the occasion of the EU-CELAC Summit In Brussels, 8-10 June 2015 PROGRAM (Working languages English-Spanish with simultaneous…
Brussels , 28 May 2015 – The European Parliament committee for international trade failed European citizens and the environment in a crucial vote on a proposed resolution on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, Friends of the Earth Europe has…
Mónica Vargas Collazos (@MonicaVarColl), ODG. April 2015, 9 pages, pdf. (English) Despite the recognition of the universality of Human Rights, and the participation of a large majority of countries in the International Human Rights System, States…