Dismantiling transnational corporate power
17 April 2018 | News | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk | Lula libre
La Via Campesina is celebrating this Tuesday the International Day of Peasant Struggle with a strong rejection against Free Trade Agreements and demanding peasant rights around the world be guaranteed Read more
12 April 2018 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk | Lula libre
“Lula was incarcerated because the dominant classes cannot forgive a leader committed with a popular project”, said on Wednesday the coordinator of REDES – Friends of the Earth Uruguay, Karin Nansen, during a protest outside the Brazilian Embassy in Montevideo, capital of Uruguay. Watch video
4 April 2018 | News | Victims of climate change | Monitoring transnationals
Amsterdam, 4 April 2018: Friends of the Earth Netherlands announces that it will take Shell to court if it does not act on demands to stop its destruction of the climate. Read more
4 April 2018 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Mano a Mano
Martín Drago, Food Sovereignty program coordinator at Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), said that the symposium on agroecology launched this Tuesday in Rome, Italy, by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), will be a space of “hard discussion in terms of the meaning of agroecology”. Read more
28 March 2018 | Interviews | Financialization of nature | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing
Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is launching this Wednesday a new publication “Community Forest Management and Agroecology. Links and Implications”, a few days before the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) holds an international symposium on agroecology. Read more
8 March 2018 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk
The Ecuadorian Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Council´s working group in charge of negotiating a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights submitted on Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland, the report of the third session of the group held last October. The countries ratified the importance of the process and will hold its fourth session in October 2018, with the negotiation of a “draft zero”. Read more
2 March 2018 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Grain
The Biodiversity Alliance, made up by Latin American social movements and organizations, is promoting a document titled “12 reasons why we say NO to the MERCOSUR – European Union Free Trade Agreement” while a new round of negotiations that could end up with a signed treaty is taking place in Asunción, capital of Paraguay. Read more
26 February 2018 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals
Thousands of people are demonstrating in Sofia, Bulgaria and at least 30 other cities, to reject the government´s decision to allow the building of a ski resort and commercial logging in Pirin National Park, deemed illegal by the demonstrators. Read more
14 February 2018 | News | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk
Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia (WALHI) - Friends of the Earth Indonesia Jakarta – For more than three decades, Industrial Forest Plantations, more properly called industrial tree plantations, have been running their business practice in Indonesia. Read more
8 February 2018 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | La Armonía | V Foro Soberanía Alimentaria
A year after the serious effects caused by agrotoxics on the lands of seven farmers of La Armonía, Canelones department, Uruguay, the farmer who detected the damage back then was affected again and decided to stop producing in the area. The case is concerning and the producer to blame for the pollution continues fumigating as if nothing had happened. Read more
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