Bern/Lausanne, 20 February 2019. Land rights violations, expulsions, violence: According to a report by the development organization Bread for all, the Luxembourg-based Socfin plantation group and its Swiss subsidiaries are involved in serious human rights violations in Liberia. Food…
A report commissioned by Greenpeace Switzerland has revealed the level of greenhouse gas emissions which Credit Suisse and UBS have been responsible for between 2015 and 2017. By financing companies active in extreme fossil fuels, the top two…
Ten years ago, the financial sector brought the world to the edge of a precipice. The shock waves continue to shake us today as austerity and corporate impunity have fuelled anger that the reactionary right have most successfully captured.…
Due to the efforts that counted with MAB’s participation, the Minas Gerais Public Prosecutor’s Office withdrew Vale from the process of registering and collecting data about people affected by the failed dam. In the crime of the Fundão’s…
The Secretariat, Steering Committee and stakeholders of the Alternative Mining Indaba (AMI) would like to offer their deepest condolences to the families of the Brazilians who lost their lives after the collapse of a tailings dam holding back…
It is with broken hearts that we, the participants of the recently held Thematic Social Forum on Mining and Extractive Economy, watch one of the worst mining disasters ever to occur unfolding in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais Brazil. Although the…
The Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity expresses its deep concern about the institutional situation of the already fragile democracy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The act of recognition of the self-proclaimed interim…
Corporations have their own global private court system – called ISDS – which they use to bully governments. But many victims of corporate human rights abuses don’t have any way of winning justice. This is unfair. We need to…
Conference European Parliament PHS 1C051, Brussels 30/01/2018 9:00 – 11:00 Hosted by: MEP Lola Sánchez (GUE/NGL) Participants: MEP Lola Sánchez (GUE/NGL) Susan George – Transnational Institute Pablo Fajardo – UDAPT Adoración Guamán – University of Valencia Olivier de Schutter…
Once again history repeats itself as a tragedy. On one side, Vale SA, a major worldwide mining company, and on the other, the Brazilian people gathering bodies sunken in the mud of criminal enterprises. This January 25 will be…
26 January 2019 Once again history repeats itself as a tragedy. On one side, Vale SA, a major worldwide mining company, and on the other, the Brazilian people gathering bodies sunken in the mud of criminal enterprises. …
We have received the news of another tragedy instigated by Vale mining company with profound indignation. This afternoon (January 25, 2019) two tailings dams located in the Corrego de Feijao community, in Brumadinho, metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte [state…