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Permanent Peoples Tribunal proposals on Systemic crimes against the fundamental rights of migrants
Source: Permanent Peoples Tribunal 3 August 2020 A call to stop the massacre of migrants Following the conclusion of its long term investigation and judgment (2017-2019) on the necropolitics of the European Union and of its members…
The donation farce of TNCs in Brazil during the battle against Covid-19
Source: Friends of the Earth Brazil July 2020 More information:
#FreeMahmoud: Israeli occupation forces arrest BDS coordinator Mahmoud Nawajaa during night raid
30 July 2020 Source: BDS Movement Occupied Ramallah, 30 July 2020 – At around 3:30 am, tens of Israeli occupation soldiers, accompanied by at least one dog, stormed the home of Mahmoud Nawajaa, the General Coordinator of the…
Israeli Apartheid in the Jordan Valley: Abu Saqr and his family arrested on charges to access water
30 July 2020 Source: Stop The Wall At about 1:00 AM on Wednesday, around fifty heavily armed Israeli soldiers surrounded the home of Abu Saqr with their military jeeps and arrested him and his twenty-two-year old…
The People’s Sovereignty Network and Globalizations presenting the Globalizations Special Forum
July 2020 Source: Journal Globalizations Reclaiming democracy from below: from the contemporary state capitalist system to peoples’ sovereignty Globalizations Special Forum Co-editors: Nora McKeon and Gonzalo Berrón This Special Forum grows from a collective effort to…
Leaked EU chemical strategy exposes corporate capture
Source: Corporate Europe Observatory 16 July 2020 Press release The European Commission’s Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (CSS), a roadmap for how the EU is to regulate toxic chemicals, which has been leaked today by several European media outlets, reveals the…
Our collective statement during the 44 th session of the Human Rights Council
General Assembly 44 th session of the Human Rights Council Geneva (15 June–3 July 2020) Item 3: Interactive dialogue with the Experts’ WG on TNCs Joint-oral statement: Centre Europe – Tiers monde (CETIM), FIAN International, Transnational Institute (TNI), Friends…
Breaking: how the mining industry and states are profiting from the COVID-19 pandemic
2 June 2020 Over 300 organizations and networks, including the Global Campaign to reclaim Peoples sovereignty, Dismantle corporate power and stop impunity, express solidarity with communities and workers affected by reckless mining industry profiteering during the COVID-19 pandemic …
Justice and Reparation: the struggle of Chevron-affected communities in COVID-19 times
EU-Mexico agreement: Serious concerns for European civil society
European civil society organisations are deeply concerned about the renewal of the European Union-Mexico trade agreement Thursday 30 April 2020 European civil society organizations that participated in a Caravan on the social and environmental impacts of transnational…
Coronawash alert! How corporate lobbyists are cynically exploiting the pandemic
30 April 2020 Source: Corporate Europe Observatory Diving into corporate lobbying at EU level during the COVID-19 pandemic They have found that lobbyists from a wide range of industries are opportunistically using the crisis to their advantage, and…