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corporate power
Big companies such as Shell, Monsanto and Newmont have enormous economic and political power, while ordinary people and parliaments have increasingly little to say. The financial crisis has proven once again that corporations are incapable of regulating themselves.
Therefore, we are calling for binding legal frameworks that allow peoples to protect themselves against corporate power. We also support local communities in their struggle to defend their rights.
columbians call on government to honour water referendumMore than 1000 Colombians demonstrated in the capital as part of international water week in order to reclaim water as a fundamental right. Read more.
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