In this section Real World Radio aims to expose the murders of social activists and the cases of death threats against leaders. We will report on the wave of criminalization of the social protest. This new section of Real World Radio is also a memorial page for all those who were murdered in their struggle for a socially just world.
25 October 2016 | Photo Galleries | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk | Week of Mobilization in Geneva
Real World Radio shares a photo gallery at the beginning of the Week of Mobilization of the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and End Impunity in Geneva, Switzerland. The activities carried out at the UN headquarters, the demonstration against the Coup d´Etat in Brazil inside the official negotiations for a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights and the setting up of the tent at the United Nations Square, where social movements and organizations are sharing and strengthening their strategies for struggle: all in images. See gallery
25 October 2016 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk | Week of Mobilization in Geneva
The activities of social movements and organizations outside the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, started on Monday in the framework of the second session of the Intergovernmental Working Group of the UN Human Rights Council mandated to take the first steps towards a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights violations. Watch video
25 October 2016 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk | Week of Mobilization in Geneva
Executive Director at Environmental Rights Action – Friends of the Earth Nigeria, Godwin Ojo, said on Monday that the existing mechanisms to bring transnational corporations that violate human rights to justice are inadequate. That is why he considered that a binding treaty on the issue is necessary. Read more
22 October 2016 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk | Week of Mobilization in Geneva
Maren Mantovani, international coordinator of the Palestinian and global campaign “Stop the Wall”, considers that a binding treaty on human rights violations perpetrated by transnational corporations is key. Read more
20 October 2016 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk | Week of Mobilization in Geneva
Activist Anne van Schaik, member of Friends of the Earth Europe, warned this Thursday about the double speech of the European Union (EU) with respect to human rights and called the bloc to actively participate in the negotiations starting this Monday in Geneva, Switzerland, towards a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights violations. Read more
20 October 2016 | News | Social activists at risk
Friends of the Earth Latin America and the Caribbean (ATALC) expresses its deep sorrow and condemnation of the murders of Honduran comrades José Angel Flores and Silmer Dionisio George. José was the president of the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguán (MUCA) and Silmer the leader of the La Confianza cooperative, in the Tocoa municipality, in the city of Colón. Both comrades undertook their struggle as heroic human rights defenders, despite the huge risks and threats they faced. Read more
13 October 2016 | Photo Galleries | Social activists at risk
11 October 2016 | Interviews | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Social activists at risk
Social activist Fátima González, of the National Coordination of Rural and Indigenous Women Organizations of Paraguay (CONAMURI) denounced in Rosario, Argentina, that there are women who are imprisoned in her country for resisting and representing a “threat against the ruling Dictatorship”. Read more
19 September 2016 | News | Environment for Peace | Social activists at risk
A day after the announcement of the signing of an agreement in Havana between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), trade union organizations and social movements formally created the Social, Mining, Energy and Environmental Table for Peace, aiming to build peace within the territories, promoting permanence and good living without extractivism. Read more
2 September 2016 | Interviews | Social activists at risk
On August 29, just a few hours after wrapping up the final agreement to end the armed conflict between the Colombian State –led by right-wing Juan Manuel Santos– and the leftist guerrilla of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), there was the sad news of the murder of three campesino people in the Department of Cauca. These deaths add up to those of the 4 Awá indigenous people in the Department of Nariño, also in southwestern Colombia in recent days. Read more
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