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…
The marked decline in Shell’s global profits in 2013 compared with previous years and the imposition of a N1.8 trillion fine on the company for the December 2011 spill in the Bonga Deep Offshore Oil field are twin…
CULTURAL RIGHTS A publication of the CETIM human rights series 56 pagesISBN 978-2-88053-103-4 Number 15 (2013) The new publication of the Europe-Third World Centre (CETIM) human rights series on Cultural rights is out ! Cultural rights are a field…
In a new working paper, GPF’s Lou Pingeot discusses the influence of transnational corporations in the Post-2015 process. This working paper by Brot für die Welt, Global Policy Forum and Misereor provides an overview of the main corporate actors in…
Andy Stern of SEIU International addresses protestors at a rally outside Goldman Sachs office. Photo: SEIU International. Used under Creative Commons license. Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street investment bank, is being sued in London for selling Libya “worthless”…
A jury of experts have awarded Gap the ‘Public Eye’ award for the worst company of the year for its failure to sign a binding agreement to make factories safe in the wake of the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh earlier this year. In…
Perenco in Bas-Congo, or how oil extraction destroys the environment and the livelihoods of local people, almost without giving them anything in return? In Muanda, “the poorest city in the world oil” exploitation of black gold by the Anglo-French company Perenco…
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Coins hammered into a tree in Wales: literally natural capital. Photo: Eifion. This image is licensed under Creative Commons License. “To press non-economic values into the framework of the economic Calculus… it is a procedure by which the higher is reduced to the…
Public Eye Awards Press Conference, Davos, Switzerland TNI’s 2014 State of Power Report[1], reveals that in the past year, transnational corporations (TNCs), particularly gas and oil industry and banking have continued to benefit extraordinarily from the ongoing economic…