Dismantiling transnational corporate power
15 November 2016 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing
From an ecological perspective, community management refers to the relationship and interdependence among all elements of the ecosystem to maintain a stable and balanced condition (homeostasis). Thus, sustainability and the preservation of environmental conditions are the main factors that must be looked after in order to build the productive economy of local communities. Watch video
10 November 2016 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk
"There are over 2000 high schools currently occupied by students, over 200 university units on strike, state workers also on strike. The struggle is growing in our country. We are building the Popular Brazil Front (together with other social movements) and we are coordinating this process. That´s why we are a target and a process of repression has been opened to try to discourage the MST". Read more
8 November 2016 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Week of Mobilization in Geneva
“I think it is logical, there should be a sort of parallelism. If you have benefits from all these countries you should also accept to repay in all these countries and allow jurisdiction for the victims in all those countries”, said Apollin Koagne, Senior Lawyer of the Center for the Environment and Development – Friends of the Earth Cameroon, in relation to transnational corporations and their human rights abuses. Read more
7 November 2016 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing | Week of Mobilization in Geneva
Lack of information and illiteracy suffered by local communities in Mozambique are deepened and exploited by big transnational corporations in order to take over lands and water, denounced the activist of the World March of Women in that country, Suzete Marques. Read more
7 November 2016 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing | Week of Mobilization in Geneva
WALHI – Friends of the Earth Indonesia submitted to the Intergovernmental Working Group of the UN Human Rights Council that is negotiating a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights violations, the case of land and forest fires caused in the country by the production of palm oil. 23 people died in 2015 suffering from serious respiratory infections and 40 million people have been affected in total by the fires. Read more
4 November 2016 | Videos | Coup d´Etat in Brazil | Monitoring transnationals
Thousands of people mobilized this Friday in Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, called by the national central union PITCNT in the framework of the Continental Day for Democracy and Against Neoliberalism. The main speaker at the event was Brazilian elected president, Dilma Rousseff. Watch video
29 October 2016 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | Week of Mobilization in Geneva
Environmental federation Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) commended this Friday the “increasing support, interest and mobilization” in Geneva, Switzerland, during the new round of UN negotiations for a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights violations, and called to continue mobilizing towards the new stage of negotiations for a “strong and effective Treaty”. Watch video
28 October 2016 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Week of Mobilization in Geneva
“National laws aren’t working. African states, Latin American states, the states of the global South sometimes are much much less powerful than the companies they are dealing with. So it’s really impossible to expect that a state such as Mozambique just go against a company such as Vale”, said Erika Mendes, activist at Justiça Ambiental – Friends of the Earth Mozambique, in an interview with Real World Radio. Read more
28 October 2016 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | Week of Mobilization in Geneva
The representative of the Popular Council for the Protection of the Jordan Valley (Palestine), Abu Saker, warned in Geneva (Switzerland) about the demolition by Israel of Palestinian houses and infrastructure in occupied territories, Israeli violations of numerous international conventions, the stealing of water and natural resources, and abuses by water company Mekorot. Watch video
27 October 2016 | News | Criminalization of COPINH | Free Honduras | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk | Week of Mobilization in Geneva | Berta lives on!
Social movements and organizations of the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and End Impunity delivered on Thursday a letter to the Permanent Mission of Honduras in Geneva, where they demand justice over the murder of environmental and human rights defenders in the Central American country. Read more
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