Hundreds denounced a secret tribunal housed at the World Bank that is getting ready to rule on a case that could determine the future of El Salvador’s water supply. By Manuel Perez-Rocha Three environmental and human rights heroes came…
How international investment rules undermine agrarian justice Pietje Vervest Timothé Feodoroff The investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clause present in many trade treaties give investors far-reaching protection, curtailing governments’ ability to regulate for progressive agrarian and agricultural policies and reinforcing the…
Farmers in Uganda evicted by oil palm plantations are today presenting a lawsuit against a joint venture co-owned by the oil palm giant Wilmar International [1]. They are claiming restitution for their grabbed land and fair compensation for damages,…
Maputo, Mozambique, 20 February 2015 – We, more than 40 farmers and members of civil society, women and men, from Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and Ivory Coast, met in Maputo, Mozambique, from 17 to 20 February 2015…
Support the rainforest people for the remediation of the Amazon. The Union for Those Affected by Texaco Operations (UDAPT) has been fighting for more than 20 years to force Chevron-Texaco to pay for the ravaging contamination it caused in the…
Coalmining firm damned in report on lobbying that denounces private-sector’s role in climate negotiations, published in Lima to coincide with Cop20 ‘No to mining’ is the demand of marchers on a demonstration over government subsidies in Colombia last year. Photograph:…
Bloemfontein, South Africa, 26 November 2014 – In a hard-hitting judgement handed down today, the Supreme Court of Appeal ordered ArcelorMittal South Africa Ltd (AMSA) to release various environmental records to the Vaal Environmental Justice Organisation (VEJA) [1], and to pay…
Every January since 2000, the Public Eye Award ‘honours’ the worst transnational corporation of the year as selected by the public through online voting. The Award’s ceremony is timely because it takes place during the World Economic Forum in…
Las Casitas is a small community living on the edge of one of the world’s largest coal mines, located in the poorest region of Colombia. The community is under imminent threat of forced displacement as a result of the Cerrejón…
The five women survivors fasting since November 10 at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, have broken their waterless fast. The women, along with about 200 people present, have been protesting for additional compensation for the survivors of the Union Carbide…
Statement from the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power on the occasion of the Historic Final Hearing of the Mexican Chapter of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal: Free Trade, Violence, Impunity and Human Rights After 3 years…
Deepening TNCs gains from the WTO Mary Louise F. Malig This sequel to the “Tailored for Sharks” report delves deeper into the role the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its legal system play in the corporate architecture that benefits and…