A CAP reform is going on. European Institutions are supporting an unsustainable food system based on low quality food for competitive prices. Changing the CAP is the key in order to achieve FOOD SOVEREIGNTY. Millions of people and many organizations…
As policies and programs to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) and to enhance forest carbon stocks (REDD+) are promoted around the world by global and national elites, Indigenous Peoples and other forest-dependent communities are raising the alarm that…
No event since the end of Apartheid sums up the shallowness of the transformation in this country like the Marikana massacre. What occurred will be debated for years. It is already clear the mineworkers will be blamed for being violent.…
Local Liberian communities suffer from the expansion of Sime Darby’s palm oil plantation in Liberia, which swallows up their farms and farmlands. Most of the men and women in the affected villages are now out of work, with very few…
On Wednesday 22 August, civil society organisations – faith-based, non-governmental and community-based organisations, social movements and trade unions – will initiate an independent civil society-led inquiry into the massacre of more than 34 mineworkers at Marikana. The launch will take place at a…
As Adidas take centre stage as the official sportswear partner of London 2012, the harsh reality of life for the workers who make their clothes is being exposed. Workers making Adidas clothes around the world are paid poverty wages, have…
“People’s Solidarity against Poverty and for Sustainable Development: Challenging Unjust and Unequal Development, Building States of Citizens for Citizens” The Asia-Europe People’s Forum (AEPF) is an inter-regional network of progressive civil society and social movements across Asia and Europe.…
May 22th Shell has held its annual shareholdersmeeting in The Hague. To our disappointment, but unfortunately not to our surprise, Shell hardly addressed the environmental and social problems it causes in the Niger Delta. Answers to questions were insufficient. Proposals…