Dismantiling transnational corporate power
23 January 2018 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Mobilizations in support to Lula in Porto Alegre
Approximately 70,000 people demonstrated on Tuesday in Porto Alegre in defense of democracy and in support to former president Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, who will face a trial on Wednesday at the 4th Regional Federal Tribunal (TRF 4), in the framework of the Lava Jato operation. Read more
10 December 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
“We remain deeply saddened and greatly alarmed by the continuing attacks against environmental activists, defenders of territories, land rights' advocates, indigenous community leaders”, said on Sunday, Human Rights Day, the coordinator of Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific Environmental Human Rights Defenders Project, Romel de Vera. Read more
29 November 2017 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | Continental Day 2017
Environmental activist Kwami Dodzi Kpondzo, of Togo, member of the Executive Committee of Friends of the Earth International, highlighted the huge popular mobilization at the Meeting in Montevideo as part of the Continental Day for Democracy and against Neoliberalism, held in Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, on November 16-18. Watch video
9 November 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk | Mano a Mano
“As women, we are the ones who maintain hope. And I think that while we do this, we need to encourage many other women and tell them to dare to go out, to raise their voices, to avoid being afraid to speak. (…) Women have been told to be afraid within our social and cultural circles. (…) We are covered by a blanket of fear, but we need to move forward with a blanket of hope”, said Jakeline Romero Epiayu. Read more
7 November 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Third round of UN negotiations for a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
Giant agribusiness project “ProSavana” and the Mphanda Nkuwa dam on the Zambezi River, both of them in Mozambique, were denounced in Geneva, Switzerland, in the framework of the UN negotiations for a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights. Read more
27 October 2017 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | Third round of UN negotiations for a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights | Social activists at risk
The European Union (EU) made clear this Friday in Geneva that it is ready to block the advance of the negotiations at the United Nations for a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights violations. Watch video
26 October 2017 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | Third round of UN negotiations for a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights | Land grabbing
Approximately 40 million people were affected by the intentional fires in 2 million hectares of lands and forests in Indonesia in 2015 to prepare the lands for palm oil production. 23 people died, most of them children, due to respiratory infections. Watch video
25 October 2017 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | Third round of UN negotiations for a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights
Senior Lawyer Apollin Koagne, of the Center for the Environment and Development – Friends of the Earth Cameroon, stated on Wednesday in Geneva that voluntary mechanisms to stop corporate abuses against human rights have not been successful. Watch video
24 October 2017 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | Third round of UN negotiations for a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights
The official delegation of the European Union (EU) was widely criticized on Monday by several social movements participating in the official UN negotiations in Geneva for the adoption of a binding treaty that regulates human rights violations perpetrated by transnational corporations. Watch video
23 October 2017 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | Third round of UN negotiations for a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights | Social activists at risk
Hundreds of social movements and organizations demanded on Monday in Geneva (Switzerland) that countries commit and make substantial advances in the process of UN negotiations towards a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights violations. Watch video
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