PRESS RELEASE Under the makeup: Hydro creating unfeasible societies in the Brazilian Amazon Contamination, colossal use of water, violation of indigenous rights and heavy climate footprint in Hydro’s bauxite and alumina production in Pará…
LAGOS, NIGERIA, September 14, 2015 — Friends of the Earth Nigeria / Environmental Rights Action (ERA/FoEN) has demanded a Nigerian Federal Government probe into of explosions caused by Nigerian Agip Oil Company [NAOC] operations in several communities in Bayelsa State…
SAVE THE DATE! PINOCCHIO CLIMATE AWARDS 2015 Paris, December 3rd 2015 Which corporations are lobbying the hardest to undermine climate policies? Which corporations are doing their best to greenwash their image? Which corporations have the least regard for local…
Quito, September 4th, 2015. After eight months of waiting, the Supreme Court of Canada ratified the second instance ruling of the Ontario Court of Appeal, which recognises that the Canadian court does have the jurisdiction to allow the…
Mission report which certified human rights violations resulting of the Belo Monte construction has been published by the National Council of Human Rights. Text by: Plataforma de Direitos Humanos Dhesca Brasil The National Council of Human Rights…
Solidarity message with Paulina Muñoz Samaniego from the Global Campaign to dismantle Corporate Power and put an End to Impunity The Global Campaign to dismantle Corporate Power and put an End to Impunity is deeply…
You can’t turn the on the news without hearing a headline concerning Monsanto, it seems. From studies indicating their glyphosate-containing herbicide to be linked with a list of degenerative health concerns, to Dr. Oz being smear-campaigned by the big agriculture company, it’s very…
Canadian, US and other international civil society organizations welcome Infinito Gold’s announcement that it is calling it quits on its tortuous quest to open the Crucitas mine in Costa Rica in spite of the determined opposition of the Costa…
One year after the historic vote at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to create an intergovernmental working group (IGWG) to begin the process of negotiation for a UN Treaty on TNCs (June 2014), social movements returned to…
The power and impunity of the transnationals are stifling the voices of the world’s peoples (Harare, 9th of July 2015) La Via Campesina strongly decries the fact that international policies and legislative processes which supposedly are decided upon democratically and by…
When preparing the mandate for the negotiations on TTIP, and in the first important months of the talks themselves (January 2012 to February 2014), the European Commission’s trade department (DG Trade) had 597 behind-closed-door meetings with…
Social Movements Help the United Nations Human Rights Council to Stay the Course on Creating a Binding Treaty for Transnational Corporations July 10, 2015, Geneva – Dozens of organizations and social movements mobilized this week in Geneva…