Descargar: MP3 (1.3 MB) Approximately 40 million people were affected by the intentional fires in 2 million hectares of lands and forests in Indonesia in 2015 to prepare the lands for palm oil production. 23 people died, most of…
Hundreds of social movements and organizations demanded on Monday in Geneva (Switzerland) that countries commit and make substantial advances in the process of UN negotiations towards a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights violations. The social…
Transnational corporations act with a high degree of impunity The treaties for investment protection and “free” trade signed by states favor the interests of transnational corporations by granting them rights and privileges, without requiring them in return to assume…
DESCARGAR MP3 (15.1 MB) The 2nd session of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) on transnational corporations, organized by the Southern Africa Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and held in Johannesburg, South Africa, came to an end on Friday. A…
Download: MP3 (6.5 Mb) In light of the approval by the European Commission of the $130 billion mega-merger between agribusiness corporations Dow Chemical and Du Pont, and anticipating similar authorizations for other agribusiness giants, organizations warn that a…
Two of those accused of the death of Nilce de Souza Magalhães, fisher and affected by the Jirau hydroelectric plant, will be judged by the Jury Court in Porto Velho, in the state of Ronônia. This week, on…
Descargar: MP3 (5.4 MB) The report launched last week by the Intergovernmental Working Group of the United Nations Human Rights Council mandated to elaborate a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights violations was “an important step”…
Corporate Accountability International, Transnational Institute, Human Rights and Business Center (HOMA), CETIM, Friends of the Earth International, and the Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity organized a side event to the IGWG on…
Who profits from bank rescues in the EU? Download: The Bail Out Business (pdf, 1.84 MB) Average time to read: 45 min The Bail Out Business is the most comprehensive and thorough analysis of the steps taken…
Two weeks before the anniversary of the murder of Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, Real World Radio interviewed one of her daughters about the resistance of communities against corporations and the factual powers in the territories. One of the…
An earlier proposal to block all metals mining in El Salvador has stagnated for years in Congress without being discussed. The movement against destructive mining activity in El Salvador received a boost Monday as leaders of the…
Bernardo Belloso, miembro de la Mesa Nacional frente a la Minería, exige a los diputados que conforman la comisión de medio ambiente la aprobación de una ley que prohiba la exploración y explotación minera en El Salvador.