Dismantiling transnational corporate power
14 August 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals
Company Cuadrilla Resources is ready to begin in a few hours shale gas drilling works in Preston New Road, Lancashire, England. The local residents who have been opposing fracking for years received the news with deep sadness. Nevertheless, their socioenvironmental struggle has inspired locals and foreigners. Read more
18 July 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals
Aiming to exchange ideas, learn and strengthen joint work, young activists from several groups of Friends of the Earth International coming from Europe and Africa are carrying out the Erasmus+ Project. In May, activist Dora Sivka, of Friends of the Earth Croatia, visited Mozambique. The struggle against coal mining was one of the strong points of the trip. Read more
12 July 2017 | News | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk
On July 6th, in a preliminary judgement, a court in Puno, Peru, sentenced Aymara leader Walter Aduviri to seven years in prison after finding him guilty of the crime of riot at the anti-mining protests of May 26, 2011, known as “Aymarazo”. The other nine leaders accused were acquitted. Read more
6 July 2017 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | Continental Day 2017
“Not only have the mega agreements, such as TPP, TTIP and hopefully TISA, fallen over, but many countries are now withdrawing from investment agreements because of the outrage at investor-State dispute settlement. The whole neoliberal model is beginning to implode”, said Kelsey in an interview with Real World Radio, during a visit to Montevideo, Uruguay. Watch video
4 July 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals
The 11th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) will take place from December 10 to 13 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to promote once again its deregulation agenda in favor of the interests of pivotal countries and transnational companies. In order to face it, several social, peasant organizations and unions of the country met at the National Meeting in Preparation for a Week of Action against the WTO, to take place in parallel to the ministerial meeting. Read more
28 June 2017 | Photo Galleries | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Monitoring transnationals | Continental Day 2017 | Social activists at risk
The Montevideo Meeting will take place on November 16-18 in this Uruguayan city, in the framework of the Continental Day for Democracy and against Neoliberalism, which gathers since 2015 the most representative social forces of the Americas. The Meeting was launched on Tuesday in Montevideo. See gallery
27 June 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk
It’s been six years since the socio-environmental conflict known as the ‘Aymarazo’ in Peru, a mobilization that happened in the province of Puno in 2011, against the mining project ‘Santa Ana’, owned by the Canadian company Bear Creek Mining Corporation. Read more
12 June 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Activities in Geneva for binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights | Social activists at risk
The pressure in the framework of the UN in favor of guiding principles on business and human rights is quite strong, said Karin Nansen, Chair at Friends of the Earth International. “But we have seen that these guiding principles don't work in reality and the will never work, because they are voluntary principles, and it is up to corporations to follow them or not”. Read more
9 June 2017 | Special reports | Monitoring transnationals | Activities in Geneva for binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights
The actions by transnational corporations against the rights of countries and communities, together with the militarization of the territories and the criminalization of social protests are escalating. A Binding Treaty that forces corporations to comply with human rights principles is urgently needed, according to the representatives of several organizations who participated in a side event, held in parallel to the 35th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. Read more
5 June 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Activities in Geneva for binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights | Social activists at risk
On June 5th, 1967, Israeli military forces attacked Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan armies, in what was the beginning of the “Six-Day War” which resulted in the Israeli seizure of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza (the three of them Palestinian Territories), Golan Heights (Syria) and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt. This Monday marks 50 years of the occupation. Read more
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