A peaceful protest in Welivariya, Sri Lanka demanding clean water, ended with the killing of three people including a 17 year old school boy, Akila Dinesh (who was the only child in his family) and many others wounded. They were…
On July 25th and 26th 2013, the workshop “Alternatives to the International Investment Protection Regime and to the Dispute Resolution System between TNCs and States” was held in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The workshop was organized by Jubilee 2000 and Red Ecuador, and organized…
By Leah Temper. Are companies liable in their home countries for violations committed abroad? Are they liable anywhere? This has been the leading question in environmental justice law jurisprudence this year. The consensus so far has been mixed, with impunity…
(Photo taken from: Elpais.cr) The story of this mining exploration dates back to 1993 when the Canadian mining corporation Placer Dome obtained an exploration license from the Ministry of Environment and Energy. The Crucitas region where the project is located…
Death threats against community leader, his family and the union, hacking web sites, stealing computers and records of the hearings of Puerto Gaitan. During the early hours of today, Saturday 20 July, the house of the Brotherhood and Solidarity Network with Colombia (Redher)in Bogotá was attacked. Strangers came into the place and took away computers, sound recorders and cameras used in theorganization of the pre-hearing of the Ethical and Political Judgement of Pacific Rubiales; and of the delegation from Canada-the…
In partnership with the International Transport Workers Federation, a global federation of 690 unions representing over 4.5 million transport workers in 153 countries, and the Alliance of Progressive Labor, a national trade union center in the Philippines. Antonio “Dodong” Petalcorin, the…
It is with shock and extreme disappointment that we note the position of two ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that the country should import and consume genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The reports quote the ministers of Agriculture ,…
Mailbox companies, tax avoidance and human rights This report examines the human rights record of eight extractive industry companies incorporated in the Netherlands and discusses the Dutch states responsibility regarding the human rights of the people affected by these business…
The National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining submitted a letter to the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of El Salvador to ask that the Free Trade Agreement with US, Central America and the Dominican Republic CAFTA-DR be declared unconstitutional. In…
Forty years after Salvador Allende denounced corporate power at the United Nations General Assembly (December 1972), millions of people all over the world are involved in struggles against the human rights violations and the social and environmental injustice generated…
Industrial agriculture has long been a major cause of forest destruction, but the ceaseless expansion of palm oil plantations for food, fuel and cosmetics is wreaking havoc on an unprecedented scale, and has become the biggest single cause of forest…