Tragedy announced
Check out the full dossier prepared by the MAB about the breakup of the mining company Samarco dams, owned by Vale and BHP Billiton, which caused a “tragedy foretold” in Mariana (MG). District Bento Rodrigues in Mariana (MG)…
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The gathering financial storm is just one effect of corporate power unbound
Governments are liberating global corporations from the rule of law and leaving them to rip the world apart ‘Step back a pace and you see that all these crises arise from the same cause.’ Illustration: Sebastian Thibault …
Special dossier prepared by ASTM: Stop Corporate Impunity
As part of the Global Campaign to dismantle Corporate Power, ASTM has prepared a Special Dossier that includes the testimony of UDAPT on the impacts of TexacoChevron in Ecuador, the opinion of a Bolivian researcher of CEDIB, as well…
Chevron’s Star Witness Admits to Lying in the Amazon Pollution Case
By Eva Hershaw In March of last year, California-based oil giant Chevron hailed a sweeping victory in a two-decade long legal battle in the Ecuadorean Amazon. A New York federal judge, Lewis Kaplan, ruled that a $9.5 billion Lago…
TTIP leak exposes EU’s failure to protect the environment
A leaked European Union document has revealed that the EU is willing to trade away essential environmental safeguards during the ongoing EU-US trade talks. The leaked document, which provides an overview of the EU’s opening position on…
Dirty hands on dirty deals
What do the UN climate talks in Paris this December, €œCOP21€ , and the ongoing EU-US trade negotiations, TTIP, have in common? Both look set to create deals that work for big business and dirty industry,…
TTIP: A box of tricks for corporate climate criminals
A new briefing by AITEC and CEO explains why TTIP, and especially regulatory cooperation, could put a stranglehold on our ability to create the energy transition required to tackle climate change. The new briefing gives examples…
CANADA OPENS THE DOOR TO THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE RULING AGAINST CHEVRON
Quito, September 4th, 2015. After eight months of waiting, the Supreme Court of Canada ratified the second instance ruling of the Ontario Court of Appeal, which recognises that the Canadian court does have the jurisdiction to allow the…
TTIP: a corporate lobbying paradise
When preparing the mandate for the negotiations on TTIP, and in the first important months of the talks themselves (January 2012 to February 2014), the European Commission’s trade department (DG Trade) had 597 behind-closed-door meetings with…
REport: Peoples Sovereignty vs Impunity Inc.
In eight articles various cases are presented that aim to serve as tools of action for activists to use in their fight for justice against the systematic violation of human rights and other crimes committed by transnational corporations. …
Written Submission of the Global Campaign to the UN Intergovernmental Working Group, June 2015
Written contribution of the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity to the first session of the intergovernmental working group mandated with the elaboration of an international legally binding instrument on transnational corporations (TNCs) and other…
NEW PUBLICATION: EXTRATERRITORIALITY. CONTROL MECHANISMS FOR PREVENTING RIGHTS VIOLATIONS BY TNCS
Mónica Vargas Collazos (@MonicaVarColl), ODG. April 2015, 9 pages, pdf. (English) Despite the recognition of the universality of Human Rights, and the participation of a large majority of countries in the International Human Rights System, States…