This report assesses the financing of the Malaysian palm oil company Sime Darby by European financial institutions in the past four years (since July 2009). The largest European shareholders of Sime Darby are the Norwegian Government Pension Fund –…
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Brid Brennan, coordinator of the Economic Justice Program at the Transnational Institute, talks about the global campaign against the power of corporations wich had invaded any aspects of human life. Support AttacTV to produce more contents. Make a donation at
The book, written by Biowatch founder trustees Rachel Wynberg and David Fig, tells the inside story of how a reasonable request for access to GMO permit applications catapulted an environmental watch-dog into almost a decade of litigation against the South…
In its code of conduct, Apple claims that it requires its suppliers to uphold its workers’ basic human rights as understood by the international community, and to treat them with dignity and respect. In contrast, our investigations demonstrate that Apple supplier factories are…
By Cecilia Olivet and Pia Eberhardt Corporations have been granted the exclusive right to sue states (states cannot sue corporations) at secretive international tribunals for action deemed to unfairly affect investors’ profits. While worldwide attention was centred recently on the World Economic Forum…
There are some stories which need to be repeated. This is not only because they are exemplary narratives or contain vibrant lessons for us but because their end is yet to be written. As one moves along, new characters, conversations…
Susan George provides an introduction to TNI’s State of Power 2013 report, exposing how the unprecedented concentration of corporate and elite power is at the root of our economic and ecological crisis. Towards the end of 2011, three young, very smart and tenacious…
Which are the biggest companies in the world? Which corporations control them? How does their power compare with states? These infographics are produced as part of TNI’s State of Power 2013 report, a visual insight into who is dominating the…
Just 11 million people, or 0.15%, control $42 trillion dollars or two thirds of world GDP. An even tinier group of people, 0.001%, control a third of that amount. Where are they based? What could this money pay for? How…
Take Action at: act.foe-scotland.org.uk/lobby/18 Tell Cairn’s calamitous cowboys to get out the Arctic! Cairn want to drill for Arctic oil — in one of the last remaining pristine wildernesses on the planet. Their target: iceberg alley.The Scottish company has been denounced…