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…
Investment arbitration cases are brought by foreign investors against governments following alleged breaches of international investment agreements. Emblematic cases include tobacco giant Philip Morris suing Uruguay and Australia over health warnings on cigarette packets; and Swedish energy multinational Vattenfall seeking…
SAN SALVADOR (EL SALVADOR), November 19, 2012 – An international mission organized by environmental federation Friends of the Earth International in Guatemala and El Salvador has verified systematic human rights violations and criminalization of environmental activists and communities resisting mining…
Interview with Milton Carrera from the Resistance in San José del Golfo, Near Guatemala City Descargar: MP3 (1.1 MB) Just 28 kilometers from Guatemala City, between the towns of San José del Golfo and San Pedro de Ayanpuc the peasant communities are…
Massmart now has 384 operational stores in 12 African countries. As a subsidiary of the retail giant Walmart it is part of a network of 10 524 operations around the world. The Massmart / Walmart head office is in Johannesburg…
Friends of the Earth visits the Canadian Embassy to protest Pac Rim gold mine fiasco On Monday, November 12, I joined representatives of several environmental and public interest groups gathered in front of the grandiose and distinctly odd Canadian Embassy,…
Coca-Cola Philippines is systematically replacing regular jobs with contractual workers. Apart from promoting early retirement programs and replacing its senior workers with contractual employees, the company is also aggressively outsourcing many of its regular jobs. More insidiously, Coca-Cola imposed a…
Building solidarity and strengthening our struggles to address the economic and climate crisis in the fight to change the system Last September 17, 2012, in an inspiring expression of solidarity from the South to the North, more than 35 social…
Friends of the Earth visits the Canadian Embassy to protest Pac Rim gold mine fiasco On Monday, November 12, I joined representatives of several environmental and public interest groups gathered in front of the grandiose and distinctly odd Canadian Embassy,…
ASEAN peoples push for corporate accountability in ASEAN: Make ASEAN work for the people and not for big corporations? In the face of the looming economic integration of the ASEAN member-economies in 2015 and the widespread concerns on practices of…