El Salvador is being sued by Pacific Rim Mining, a Canadian based corporation owned by Australia’s OceanaGold, before the International Center for the Settlement of Investments Disputes –ICSID-. The case will enter a critical stage in January 2014. We…
PRESS COMMUNIQUE Download the full report here: The recently concluded 9th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has produced its first agreement since its establishment in 1995. Trade observers have been quick to call this a historic…
Still from Dark Side of Chocolate documentary by Miki Mistrati and U. Roberto Romano. Eight years after they sued Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Cargill and Nestlé for allegedly forcing them to work as child labor on a Côte d’Ivoire cocoa…
Open letter to the President of Ecuador Rafael Correa Delgado concerning the dissolution of Fundación Pachamama We the undersigned members of the Global Campaign Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity share the concerns expressed by many social movements…
Friends of the Earth calls for end to secrecy surrounding talks *****Washington/Brussels, December 20 – Friends of the Earth has criticised the secrecy surrounding EU-US trade talks, which closed today in Washington. It warned that public opposition will continue…
Jakarta, December 17, 2013 – The indigenous Suku Anak Dalam (SAD) community of Bungo, in Jambi, Indonesia has struggled for 27 years to regain control of their territory from the palm oil company PT. Asiatic Persada (PT AP). They achieved success in…
BRUSSELS – Negotiations between the United States and European Union for a free trade agreement, which resume this week in Washington, represent one of the biggest threats we have seen in our lifetimes to progress towards our vision of an environmentally…
The ninth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Meeting has come and gone. Held in Bali recently, the WTO succeeded in pushing through a highly imbalanced “Bali package” that delivered an agreement on trade facilitation and in exchange tied the hands…
Antoine Simon and David Heller from Friends of the Earth Europe, travelled to the village of Pungeşti in Romania this weekend to observe and document the village’s resistance to shale gas. The community’s stand against Chevron has become one of…
December 10 is Human Rights Day. We’re sharing this video about communities in Rio Blanco, Honduras, whose protests against an illegal dam on their land have been met with a violent and repressive backlash from their government. People there have…