PRESS RELEASE Historic process continues at the UN: States resume substantive negotiations on the text for a binding treaty on transnational corporations with respect to human rights 28 October 2020, Geneva: Amidst the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, the United…
Source: La Via Campesina 16 October 2020 “Food Sovereignty is the flame that will show us the way”, insists La Via Campesina as it marks #16October in a pandemic year PRESS STATEMENT: 16 October 2020, International Day…
Source: Corporate Europe Observatory 16 July 2020 Press release The European Commission’s Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (CSS), a roadmap for how the EU is to regulate toxic chemicals, which has been leaked today by several European media outlets, reveals the…
European civil society organisations are deeply concerned about the renewal of the European Union-Mexico trade agreement Thursday 30 April 2020 European civil society organizations that participated in a Caravan on the social and environmental impacts of transnational…
February 12, 2020 Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) We welcome this long-delayed UN list of complicit companies. Some major firms involved with illegal settlements are not in the database and must be added. All these companies must…
The first court hearing under the French law on corporate duty of vigilance between Friends of the Earth France, Survie, four Ugandan organizations and the oil giant Total (1) took place on 12 December 2019 at the High Court…
Historic process continues at the UN: This week states enter substantive negotiations of the text of a binding treaty on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights 14 October 2019, Geneva: The United Nations (UN)…
Paris, July 3rd, 2019 – After an epic judicial procedure initiated by Sherpa and ActionAid France more than 6 years ago, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS France SAS has been indicted on misleading advertising. SAMSUNG displays ethical commitments on workers’ rights that…
By Daniela Fichino The installation was made by the Alliance of People Affected by Vale, which also participates in the meeting to expose to shareholders practices of violations and mismanagement of the company. Rio de Janeiro – The…
(Harare, 25 April 2019) La Vía Campesina stands in support of the organized sectors of Colombian society mobilizing this 25th of April, in a National Peasant, Indigenous, Afro-descendent, Worker and Popular Strike. The strike is being organized to…
Press Release – La Vía Campesina. (Harare, April 17th, 2019) Today, April 17th, 2019, the International Day of Peasants’ Struggle, the member organisations of La Via Campesina are reaffirming the Declaration on Peasants’ Rights as a political tool…