“The mineral wealth of a country should be used for the benefit of the people, including the workers, and not to destroy the environment for the benefit of the corporations and politicians,” Gerard and Gómez Urrutia said…
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Transnational Corporations and Human Rights: Towards a Binding International Treaty. DOWNLOAD PDF HERE As part of the Global Campaign’s preparation for engaging the UN Inter Governmental Working Group (IGWG), this expert Seminar brought together thirty experts (human rights, international law, political economy)…
Call to the Days of Mobilization 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 On 10 and 11 June, Heads of State…
Trichy, India: In an extraordinary development, PepsiCo’s bottling plant in India has sought – and will receive – police protection for water being brought to the disputed plant located in a water-stressed area. Additionally, the Pepsi beverage manufacturing plant will…
See full report here: SUMMARY Glencore in Colombia: civil society’s view on the sustainability of mining operations This shadow report[1] is intended as a contribution towards civil society’s duty to provide oversight and demand responsibility from large companies and transnational…
We, militants of the World March of Women, united in solidarity, are here together to denounce capitalism greed and patriarchy that exploit and expropriate women’s bodies and productive labor. On the 24th April we remember the Rana Plaza massacre, in Bangladesh, when…
Community Opposed Project for Pollution, Water Concerns For Immediate Release April 21, 2015 New Delhi, India: Bowing to public outrage, the state government of Tamil Nadu in south India has cancelled plans for a new Coca-Cola bottling plant in Perundurai in…
Exhibit #1 T. Matthew Phillips Today a class action lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles County, California against theMonsanto corporation. The suit alleges that Monsanto is guilty of false advertising by claiming that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, targets an enzyme only found in plants and…
The ITUC has described a $300m claim against El Salvador by an Australian/Canadian mining conglomerate as an example of the worst excess of corporate greed. The claim is being decided in a tribunal under the tainted “Investor-State…
– Report denounces rights violations committed by Vale – More than 30 cases in three continents are presented in the document produced by the InternationalArticulation of those Affected by Vale – The report gathers several allegations of human and environmental rights violations, such asforced labor, espionage and irregular environmental licensing – Vale Unsustainability Report 2015 will be available for download on the …
Dare to publish a scientific study against Big Biotech, and Monsanto will defame and discredit you. For the first time, a Monsanto employee admits that there is an entire department within the corporation with the simple task of ‘discrediting’ and ‘debunking’ scientists who…