In recent weeks Ecuadorian authorities and civil society have been hit with a worrying piece of news. The Ecuadorian state has been ordered to pay $ 1.7 billion plus interest to the U.S. Company Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Oxy) for having…
Facing the evictions: Demonstration of reoccupation ! To rebuild – against the airport! Pitchforks, wooden beams, planks, nails and tools in hand… Meeting Saturday November 17th in the morning. —-Facing the evictions: Demonstration of reoccupation ! —-…
Solidarity Statement from THE GLOBAL CAMPAIGN DISMANTLE CORPORATE POWER AND STOP IMPUNITY We support Mexican indigenous communities who are resisting the construction of another wind farm on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. We express…
This was a workshop organized by the EU-ASEAN FTA Campaign Network, Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity, Focus on the Global South, Seattle-to-Brussels Network (S2B), Transnational Institute (TNI), Indonesia for Global Justice, Ecologistas en Acción, SOMO, War on Want and…
As the presidential candidates were prepping for their fiery debate last week, Huffington Post broke a story linking Mitt Romney’s pre-Bain Capital consulting company, Bain & Co., to Big Tobacco’s expansion in Russia. The tobacco epidemic currently devastating Russia, which Prime Minister…
Transnational corporations (TNCs) continue to reinforce their hold on the natural resources of the planet, dictating their agendas to the weakest countries and exploiting their peoples. Directly or indirectly, they bear an enormous responsibility for the deterioration of the environment…
Is it not time for a more systemic approach and campaign to dismantle TNC power, end corporate impunity, and put people and nature before profits? Political Context As the main agents of neoliberal globalisation, TNCs have sought…
Eyes on Trade * In the most recent development in the historic case against Chevron’s appalling pollution in the Amazon, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Chevron’s appeal of a lower court ruling last week. In so doing, the…
Latin American organizations and peasant, indigenous and African-descent communities, who live facing everyday pollution and exploitation of our lands by national and transnational megaprojects, observe that the United Nations provides cover for, and treat as normal, business conducts that violate…
On 20 October War on Want will be marching alongside trade unions, community groups and ordinary people from across the UK because we believe that poverty is political. » Find out more about the March for a Future That Works and how…
As many countries in Africa, Gabon is facing an alarming rate of expansion of oil palm and rubber plantations. The government has given the Singapore based company Olam 300,000 hectares of land to establish monoculture tree plantations. Local communities have…
THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS, OCTOBER 11, 2012 — For the first time in history, a Dutch court verdict is expected about the case of a European company, Anglo-Dutch oilgiant Shell, which appeared in court today to account for damage it caused abroad, says Friends of the Earth International. [1] Lawyers for both parties pleaded at…