PRESS RELEASE April 4 2019 The Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples´ Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and End Impunity regrets the ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada regarding the case of Chevron in the Ecuadorian Amazon, and reaffirms…
Bern/Lausanne, 20 February 2019. Land rights violations, expulsions, violence: According to a report by the development organization Bread for all, the Luxembourg-based Socfin plantation group and its Swiss subsidiaries are involved in serious human rights violations in Liberia. Food…
Once again history repeats itself as a tragedy. On one side, Vale SA, a major worldwide mining company, and on the other, the Brazilian people gathering bodies sunken in the mud of criminal enterprises. This January 25 will be…
Davos, Switzerland | Embargoed Until 23.01.2019 | Stop ISDS Coalition Campaigners dressed as corporate wolves will invade the streets of Davos, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF), to protest the rights of corporations to…
The latest hearing in the case of the Zambian communities consistently polluted by Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), a subsidiary of British miner Vedanta, was heard at the British Supreme Court on 15th and 16th January 2019. A vigil organised by solidarity organisation…
Communique: Southern Africa Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power Johannesburg-November 23, 2018 Communities of Resistance! Sites of Hope and Peoples Sovereignty! Southern Africa Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power “Our first and most…
PRESS RELEASE | LA VIA CAMPESINA 19 November. Monday, [NEW YORK] The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) of the UN General Assembly voted in favour of the UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and…
Local communities from around the world, and particularly, the global south are saying enough is enough to the corporate plunder of our natural resources. Extractivism – the over-exploitation of natural resources through mining, intensive agriculture, large-scale fishing, logging…
16 October 2018, Geneva: The Ground-breaking process aiming to bring transnational corporations to account for their human rights violations is increasingly catching the attention of UN member states delegates, civil society and peoples’ representatives worldwide. Members of parliaments…
(Geneva, September 28, 2018) Seventeen years of long and arduous negotiations later, peasants and other people working in rural areas are only a step away from having a UN Declaration that could defend and protect their rights to land, …
Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity UNHRC 39th Session Geneva, 19th September 2018 Statement Re: EU JST on OEIGWG’s procedures. With a new maneuver at the UNHRC, the EU aims at protecting…
Justiça Ambiental submitted a case to the Administrative Court of the Province of Tete (ACPT) in February 2016. The proceedings concerned the behavior of the Government and mining company JINDAL, which results in a breach of the fundamental rights and…