On July 25th and 26th 2013, the workshop “Alternatives to the International Investment Protection Regime and to the Dispute Resolution System between TNCs and States” was held in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The workshop was organized by Jubilee 2000 and Red Ecuador, and organized…
International Delegation to El Salvador, May 10-13, 2013 Preliminary Report From May 10-13 2013, an international delegation from 12 countries representing 22 human rights, social justice and environmental non-profit organizations and advocates, along with academics, journalists, artists and grassroots activists,…
We, organisations assembled here, bear witness to a global extractivist boom that is leading to great misery for many hundreds of millions of the Earth’s people and destroying the very basis for life and its reproduction in significant parts of…
Canadian mining company Pacific Rim has announced it will increase to US $315 million its demand against the Salvadoran Government for failing to grant a license to exploit gold in the El Dorado mine in its northern department of Cabañas.…
Corporate Europe Observatory, the Council of Canadians and the Transnational Institute Amsterdam/Brussels/Ottawa, May 6th.- The proposed Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the European Union (EU) and Canada would grant energy companies far-reaching rights to challenge bans and regulations…
Brussels, April 16 – A proposal released today by the European Commission to require large European companies to report on environmental and social issues will not guarantee ethical corporate behaviour according to the European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ). [1]…
Today, we celebrate our hopes, our rights, our voices, our movements as we continue to work towards the elimination of violence and discrimination, our right to self-determination, our right to decide on our bodies, communities and natural resources. We voice…
Statement For the dismissal of proceedings against 8 activists of Ecologistas en Acción for condemning the activities of CaixaBank. In December, 2011, Ecologistas en Acción, as a part of their Federal Congress, displayed three placards in the central office of CaixaBank…
EDF suing climate activists for £5million Evidence of police/corporate collusion as police serve legal papers on activists on behalf of EDF, and hand over personal data Key CCTV footage at police station may have been deleted Counter-Terrorism Command visited activist at…
It has been nine months since PAN AP launched its campaign to uphold the rights of the indigenous Higaonon peoples to their ancestral land in Opol town of Misamis Oriental in Southern Philippines. The campaign earned its biggest blow when…
A growing group of civil society organisations[i] is calling on the EU to abolish its Emission Trading System (ETS) to open space for truly effective climate policies. Today they release a joint declaration that highlights the many structural loopholes the ETS…
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…