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 …
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
A Friends of the Earth International´s delegation is present in Geneva, Switzerland, where the UN´s Human Rights Council is holding its sessions, aiming to urge several governments to participate in the intergovernmental panel of the Council to start defining…
From the Brazilian Amazon to the German automakers The production depicts in 28 minutes the daily life of the communities impacted by the Programa Grande Carajás (Great Carajás Programme), the world’s largest iron ore mining project in the…