A new study debunks eight falsehoods the mining corporation OceanaGold has used to try to justify mining in El Salvador and undermine public debate and policymaking. Vancouver-based Pacific Rim Mining, recently acquired by Australian-Canadian firm OceanaGold, has been trying to access…
Corporations, backed by lawyers, use international investment agreements to scavenge for profits by suing Europe’s crisis countries. While speculators making risky investments are protected, ordinary people have no such protection and – through harsh austerity policies – are being stripped…
This is the moment we say ‘never again’ The anti-poverty charity War on Want is joining forces with political activist and fashion designer Katharine Hamnett to step up efforts to protect garment workers making clothes for British high street retailers.…
Sportswear maker to stop selling T-shirts before World Cup after Brazil’s ministry of women’s affairs said shirts were offensive T-shirts withdrawn by Adidas for the Brazil World Cup Photograph: Adidas Adidas agreed on Tuesday to stop selling two raunchy…
Today is exactly two months before the first anniversary of the collapse of Rana Plaza, the worst industrial disaster to hit the garment industry, with 1,138 people killed and over 2,000 injured. To mark the day, Clean Clothes Campaign and…
Environmental governance in South Africa is cracking at the seams. If government permits Eskom to exceed air pollution standards at 14 of their coal-fired power stations, it would put the nail in the coffin of air quality legislation that protects…
At the UN Human Rights Council session in September 2013, Ecuador led a number of governments in issuing a statement in favour of a legally binding international instrument on business & human rights to be concluded within the UN system. The…
As invitation-only Davos gets under way, our public space and politics shrink that little bit more across the globe. Rolling back state authority will turn today’s accountability gap into a yawning abyss. The annual gathering of “fat cats in…
Northeastern Australia’s enormous coal deposits attract interest from all directions. Nine huge mining projects are underway in Queensland – along with train tracks and freight terminals, CO2 emissions by the millions, and a vital threat to the coastline’s unique world…
Dry season in Boghé, Mauritania. Photo: zbili. Used under Creative Commons license Villagers in Boghé, a community 190 miles south west of the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott, are protesting a proposed $1 billion investment by the Saudi National…