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Dismantiling transnational corporate power
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25 July 2018 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
Dangerous Funds
Activists expose role of Dutch banks in the funding of palm oil industry development
Milieudefensie – Friends of the Earth Netherlands launched a report where they warn that Dutch Banks ABN AMRO, ING and Rabobank have to take responsibility for the disastrous environmental and social consequences of providing finance to the palm oil sector at large scale. These banks should pull out of this sector, demands the organization. Read more
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24 July 2018 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing
Greenwashing
Bertrand Sansonnens, of Friends of the Earth Switzerland, on palm oil: “voluntary guidelines do not work, we need binding rules at global level”
At the end of June, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which gathers actors from several sectors of the palm oil industry, reported that they had suspended Swiss company Nestlé´s membership for failing to follow the RSPO´s Statutes and Code of Conduct. However, Nestlé “doesn´t seem to care”, warned Friends of the Earth International. Read more
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13 July 2018 | News | Financialization of nature | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing
In Defense of Peruvian Mountains
Peruvian government withdraws concession that had been granted on Siete Colores Mountain
The National Agrarian Confederation denounces mining officials are “taking over the government”. Read more
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13 July 2018 | Testimonies | Financialization of nature | Monitoring transnationals
Chevron-Texaco Never Again
The oil corporation will have to compensate the people affected by the pollution caused in the Amazon
Ecuador´s Constitutional Court has rejected the protection appeal filed by Chevron in 2014. Read more
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5 July 2018 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals
Synthetic biology and the gene drive: what are they?
Environmental activist Dana Perls, of Friends of the Earth US, denounced in Montreal, Canada, that the “gene drive” is a new genetic engineering extinction technology, which could permanently alter entire generations and populations of species. Read more
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22 June 2018 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals
Social movements and organizations present at the UN to stop corporate impunity
The Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power organized on Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland, an activity in the framework of the United Nations (UN) to insist on the need for the new treaty that allows to take corporations that violate human rights to justice to be binding. Read more
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18 June 2018 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals
Update on negotiations towards binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights
“We have seen how transnational corporations use transnational structures and complex schemes to avoid liability and national jurisdictions and evade their legal responsibilities” in terms of human rights violations, said activist Anne van Schaik, of Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) in Geneva, Switzerland. Read more
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13 June 2018 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing
Meeting in Mozambique focuses on the resistance and the solutions against climate change
Aiming to advance in the development of a climate justice movement in Africa, a continent that will be seriously affected by climate change, especially in the Southern countries, a new edition of the “Seeding Climate Justice” event took place in Maputo, capital of Mozambique. Read more
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5 June 2018 | News | Financialization of nature | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk
Union of People Affected by Texaco will appeal ruling that favors Chevron
They are also expecting Ecuador´s Constitutional Court to dismiss the Action of Protection filed by the oil company in 2014. Read more
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22 May 2018 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | Monitoring transnationals
Global support for legal action to #StopShell shows value of international solidarity
Representatives of Milieudefensie – Friends of the Earth Netherlands demonstrated this Tuesday outside the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of transnational oil company Shell, in The Hague, demanding compliance with the Paris Agreement and for the company to stop fueling climate change. Read more
