BRUSSELS, BELGIUM and OTTAWA, ONTARIO and MONTREAL, QUEBEC–(Marketwire – Feb. 5, 2013) – Labour, environmental, Indigenous, women’s, academic, health sector and fair trade organizations from Europe, Canada and Quebec representing more than 65 million people are demanding that Canada and the…
Susan George provides an introduction to TNI’s State of Power 2013 report, exposing how the unprecedented concentration of corporate and elite power is at the root of our economic and ecological crisis. Towards the end of 2011, three young, very smart and tenacious…
The NationalRoundtable Against Metallic Mining in El Salvador(La Mesa) reiterated in a press conference this morning its petition for the Salvadoran Government to introduce legislation to place a definite ban to metallic mining in the country. The call was made as a response…
NOTE: An ad placed by Monsanto in Dutch newspapers claiming Roundup herbicide has no adverse effects on soil was ruled misleading last year by the Dutch advertising standards commission. Monsanto has failed to appeal within the time allowed, so the ruling stands. Monsanto placed its…
Two months after the Tazhreen fire that killed more than 100 workers, a new fire broke out on Saturday in the two-storey Smart Fashion factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, claiming the lives of seven female workers and leaving at least five injured. War…
Brussels/The Hague, January 30, 2013 – A Dutch court has ruled today that Shell is responsible for not preventing the pollution of farmlands at Ikot Ada Udo, Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria. The case brought by Friends of the Earth…
To support this campaign, click here! What is the economic power structure of the private groups in this country? Who are the actors who accumulate the most power in this structure, and what is the relationship amongst them? What is the…
WORST CORPORATION OF 2012 EXPOSED PARALLEL TO WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM Lonmin shortlisted in international Public Eye Awards Pietermaritzburg & Johannesburg, South Africa, 04 January 2012 – The nexus between corporate power and the political elite, and what this means…
Take Action at: act.foe-scotland.org.uk/lobby/18 Tell Cairn’s calamitous cowboys to get out the Arctic! Cairn want to drill for Arctic oil — in one of the last remaining pristine wildernesses on the planet. Their target: iceberg alley.The Scottish company has been denounced…
On the afternoon of December 11, 2012, a hired assassin killed union leader MILTON ENRIQUE RIVAS PARRA. The event took place in the municipality of Puerto Gaitan (Meta department, Colombia), near the offices of TERMOTECNICA, where he worked as an…
MEPs approved free-trade accords with Colombia, Peru and six Central American nations today (11 December), giving them permanent access to the EU’s 500 million consumers and offering the EU’s stagnant economy new markets for its cars and luxury goods. Setting aside…
More than 120 people died on Saturday after a fire broke out in a nine-store garment factory just outside of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka. Fire-fighter officials rescued hundreds of workers that took shelter on the roof of the factory but were…