Andy Stern of SEIU International addresses protestors at a rally outside Goldman Sachs office. Photo: SEIU International. Used under Creative Commons license. Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street investment bank, is being sued in London for selling Libya “worthless”…
A jury of experts have awarded Gap the ‘Public Eye’ award for the worst company of the year for its failure to sign a binding agreement to make factories safe in the wake of the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh earlier this year. In…
Perenco in Bas-Congo, or how oil extraction destroys the environment and the livelihoods of local people, almost without giving them anything in return? In Muanda, “the poorest city in the world oil” exploitation of black gold by the Anglo-French company Perenco…
Coins hammered into a tree in Wales: literally natural capital. Photo: Eifion. This image is licensed under Creative Commons License. “To press non-economic values into the framework of the economic Calculus… it is a procedure by which the higher is reduced to the…
Public Eye Awards Press Conference, Davos, Switzerland TNI’s 2014 State of Power Report[1], reveals that in the past year, transnational corporations (TNCs), particularly gas and oil industry and banking have continued to benefit extraordinarily from the ongoing economic…
The World Bank has been forced to backtrack on a controversial investment in Corporación Dinant, a palm oil company implicated in serious human rights abuses in Honduras. Following the January 10th release of one of the most damning investigations ever issued…
In its third annual ‘State of Power’ report, TNI uses dynamic infographics and penetrating essays to expose and analyse the principal power-brokers that have caused financial, economic, social and ecological crises worldwide. Download full report: State of Power 2014 (PDF,…
The multinationals can be defeated only if there exists a powerful social movement, supported by a significant portion of the population. A provincial tribunal in Córdoba determined that Monsanto should halt construction of a plant for the treatment of transgenic…
Activists are challenging rules that grant corporations the right to sue governments A protester holds a sign that reads in Spanish “No to mining” at a protest against Canada’s gold and silver mining operations in northern El Salvador, outside…
Summary International and Honduran CSOs, including Movement of Unified Campesinos in Aguan Honduras, Movimiento Madre Tierra Honduras, CIFCA, FIAN, Plataforma Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, Democracia y Desarrollo, Oxfam, ActionAid International, Rights Action, Trocaire, Greenpeace International, Asociación Interamericana para la Defensa…
By Manuel Perez-Rocha and Stuart Trew NAFTA and treaties like it grant transnational companies total freedom of movement for capital, goods, and services, coupled with the ability to sue countries in secret courts when governments attempt to get in their way. (Image: Hernán…
For the Campaign Dismantle Corporate Power FIFA should be considered the Worst Corporation of the World because: Although it is called a ‘non-profit organization’ FIFA uses its World Cup agreements with host countries to protect the investments of…