Take Action at: act.foe-scotland.org.uk/lobby/18 Tell Cairn’s calamitous cowboys to get out the Arctic! Cairn want to drill for Arctic oil — in one of the last remaining pristine wildernesses on the planet. Their target: iceberg alley.The Scottish company has been denounced…
As more and more countries adopt the life-saving measures of the Global Tobacco Treaty, Big Tobacco is using a global litigation strategy to intimidate countries to halt progress. This flyer lays out which countries have won, lost, or are facing…
On the afternoon of December 11, 2012, a hired assassin killed union leader MILTON ENRIQUE RIVAS PARRA. The event took place in the municipality of Puerto Gaitan (Meta department, Colombia), near the offices of TERMOTECNICA, where he worked as an…
Working conditions in the Hungarian electronics sector Low-cost electronics production facilities have been established in Central and Eastern Europe (Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania and Estonia) to supply the European market. Although working conditions within electronics manufacturing companies in South-East…
MEPs approved free-trade accords with Colombia, Peru and six Central American nations today (11 December), giving them permanent access to the EU’s 500 million consumers and offering the EU’s stagnant economy new markets for its cars and luxury goods. Setting aside…
More than 120 people died on Saturday after a fire broke out in a nine-store garment factory just outside of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka. Fire-fighter officials rescued hundreds of workers that took shelter on the roof of the factory but were…
By Joan Martinez Alier. At the end of November 2012, time has accelerated in the popular struggles against gold mining and also against hydroelectric projects in the Sierra Norte of the state of Puebla. An assembly of at least 5000…
On the 1st of December, Earthlife Africa Jhb and allies will be marching on BHP Billiton, Nedbank, Standard Bank, and Eskom towards the Global Day of Action. All of these corporations continue to profit from the destruction of the planet…
A small club of international law firms, arbitrators and financial speculators are fuelling an investment arbitration boom that is costing taxpayers billions of dollars and preventing legislation in the public interest. Download the report Profiting from Injustice (pdf, 1.1MB) Download Executive…
Some eight kilometres East-Northeast of Delmas (South Africa), the Weltevreden pan is home to a myriad of water birds. But today, neither birds nor farmers who use the groundwater from the wetland have reasons to be ‘satisfied’ – a translation…
October 2012, Notre dames des Landes, France. Chris leans forward, her long fingers play with the dial of the car radio “I’m trying to find 107.7 FM“ … a burst of Classical music, a fragment of cheesy pop. “ Ah!…
Worldwide, governments and local authorities, together with international institutions (like the World Bank), engage in the development of large infrastructures: mining projects, highways, high-speed railways, new airports, arenas, amusement parks, concert halls, etc. This projects share some common traits: they’re…