Today, the General Attorney of the Republic of El Salvador offered a press conference in Washington D.C. to share the results of the arbitration, about which he had been notified by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes…
The Southern Africa Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power, as part of the Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity (stopcorporateimpunity.org), is organising the Southern Africa Permanent Peoples Tribunal on Transnational Corporations. The first…
Plant Flouts Environmental Laws, Operating Without Licenses New Delhi: Coca-Cola’s second largest bottling plant in India has shut production due to pollution violations, the India Resource Center can confirm after a visit to the plant yesterday. The…
Several delegates comprising women, men, youth, and representing peasants and migrant agricultural and rural workers from several regions of La Via Campesina, will carry messages of global solidarity and food sovereignty at the 2016 World Social Forum this…
To the International Council of the WSF,To the WSF Montreal local Organizing Committee,To all organizers, media-makers and activist who are invested in the integrity of the WSF Dear all, We see with great concern that…
The Southern Africa Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power is holding its first session of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal on Transnational Corporations on 16 & 17 August in Manzini, Swaziland. [SEE FULL PRESS RELEASE] During the 2-day session,…
LVC Declaration on Trade, Markets and Development in the context of UNCTAD 2016, Nairobi, Kenya “Food Sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to…
On 3 June in the department of Tolima over 120,000 people mobilised for the 8th Great Carnival March. In the departments of Caquetá and Quindío there were also cultural demonstrations against large scale mining projects (part of the Colombian…
Please share check at this link the contacts of the Colombian Government and send to them the letter below o a similar one Sir, Juan Manuel Santos – President of the Republic of Colombia Sir, Luis Perez Gutierrez – Governor of Antioquia…
On November 5th, 2015, Brazilians have been victims of the worst environmental crime in the country’s history with the collapse of the mining dam operated by Vale The millions of cubic meters of contaminated mud that overflowed the Doce riverbed…
April 29th –Today, the Ecuadorian government is required to pay $180 million to multinational oil corporation Occidental, the final payment of a total settlement of $980 million following the widely criticized decision of an Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS)…
By Beverly Bell Gustavo Castro Soto, imperiled in Honduras. Photo by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, 2014. The sole eyewitness to Honduran social movement leader Berta Cáceres’ assassination on March 3, 2016 has gone from being wounded victim to, effectively, political prisoner. Now…