Big multinationals are paying significantly lower tax rates than before the 2008 financial crisis, according to Financial Times analysis showing that a decade of government efforts to cut deficits and reform taxes has left the corporate world largely unscathed.…
Binding treaty draft text to be discussed in October Geneva, 9 March 2018 This week the Human Rights Council was debating the binding treaty on transnational corporations once again. It was a hopeful sign that, on…
SIDE EVENT On the occasion of the 37th session of the Human Rights Council, Centre Europe Tiers-Monde (CETIM), FIAN International, the Trade Union Confederation of Americas (TUCA), Indonesia for Global Justice, Unión de Afectado/as por Chevron Texaco…
In March 2017, El Salvador became the first country in the world to ban metallic mining. But the huge victory of the antimining movement and the international recognition it has garnered may be overshadowed by a current electoral campaign…
SAM COSSAR-GILBERT 12 February 2018 We need a new economics for the 21st century. Here are five potential pillars. We live in a world that’s facing many destructive and entwined crises including growing inequality, climate change, poverty, pollution…
Popular movements everywhere are on the rise at the same time as we face ever-greater corporate impunity and increasing state violence. In TNI’s seventh flagship State of Power report, we examine today’s social movements, their potential to build counter-power, and…
Tonight, while driving home, compañero Edwin Espinal was captured by members of the police along the Fuerzas Aramadas Boulevard in Tegucigalpa for his participation in the protests days before against the imposition of fraud and dictatorship by Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH). …
Erika Mendes – Friends of the Earth Mozambique/ JA! 2016 was an important year in the African continent’s struggle against corporate impunity, with the first session of the Southern African Peoples Permanent Tribunal (PPT) taking place…
Landmark trial sees senior former Shell executives and CEO of Eni in the dock for billion dollar Nigerian oil deal Royal Dutch Shell and Italian oil giant Eni have been ordered to stand trial in Milan on…
Focus on the Global South, Statement on the failure of MC11 in Buenos Aires The failure of the WTO talks in Buenos Aires to produce any substantial outcome is a victory for the people. This is a clear…