Dismantiling transnational corporate power
2 June 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Activities in Geneva for binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights | Social activists at risk | Mano a Mano
Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) already has a delegation in Geneva, Switzerland, to show the new regular session of the UN Human Rights Council –to take place from June 6th – 23rd, the widespread support to the negotiations for a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights, under negotiation in this multilateral framework. Read more
31 May 2017 | News | Monitoring transnationals | Environment for Peace
The decision by mining company AGA to suspend millions of ounces of gold exploration and extraction in Cajamarca municipality, until having legal certainty for foreign investments in the country, put extractivist companies and the government on alert to reform citizen participation mechanisms, limiting their scope with reference to land use, underground soil, territorial autonomy and the autonomous building of territories (CC 1991, Law 388/97, Law 134/94, Law 152/94 and Law 99/93). Read more
26 May 2017 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing
Twenty-three people died in 2015 alone for breathing infections caused by the smoke of peatland and forest fires in five provinces of Indonesia that were started to clean lands for oil palm and tree plantations to produce cellulose pulp and paper. Approximately 60 million people have been affected in total. Watch video
25 May 2017 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | Monitoring transnationals
“Energy production nowadays comes together with the destruction of livelihoods and human rights violations”, and its aim is to get profits for corporations and not for the peoples' welfare. “Community resistance is vital for us, it is the pillar, the building block for a radical shift away of the current energy system”, said on Tuesday the Chair of Friends of the Earth International, Karin Nansen. Read more
19 May 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals
Italian oil giant ENI and its subsidiary in Nigeria, the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) “have violated the right to life and dignity of the human persons of the Ikebiri people (in the Niger Delta), because they have destroyed the source of their livelihood”, said to Real World Radio Nigerian lawyer Chima Williams, who submitted a legal complaint in Italy against these companies. Read more
18 May 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals
Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador, signed on Tuesday sixteen executive orders that denounce and terminate all investment protection agreements signed by the country, especially in the last decade of the past century. This came after the recommendations by the National Assembly, which on May 3rd had voted in favor of terminating 12 agreements. Read more
27 April 2017 | News | Monitoring transnationals
A historic event took place on March 26, which becomes a landmark in the struggle of popular Colombian communities against large-scale mining in the country. The resounding victory of thousands of voices from the most innermost places of this municipality, who have resisted the offensive of large-scale gold mining for years, and have kept their agricultural and peasant roots, goes beyond a categorical NO against mining. Read more
25 April 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | 7th Native Seed Festival
"The Argentinian government is aiming to introduce changes into the Seeds Law in order to privatize seeds and to avoid what is, healthily, taking place here, which is that farmers can still produce their own seeds and exchange them". Read more
19 April 2017 | News | Monitoring transnationals | Environment for Peace
The first popular consultation with reference to a hydroelectric project was held in Colombia on February 26. In Cabrera, Cundinamarca, the people used this citizen participation mechanism to defend peasant life, water and the environment against the threat of a hydroelectric project planned by Emgesa, which threatens a large part of the municipalities in Sumapaz Province. Read more
8 April 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals
At the end of March a fire at the facilities of Transnet company in the southern area of Durban, South Africa, threatened the population of the area, located in one of the most polluting petrochemical poles of the world and where there have been 60 serious fires since the year 2000, according to figures by the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance. Read more
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