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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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europe: consuming the world's resourcesEurope is using increasing quantities of the world’s natural resources, according to a new report launched by Friends of the Earth Europe. Guatemalans protest over extractive industriesThousands of indigenous Guatemalans took to the streets in July to demonstrate against a new mining law and a cement company threatening to damage rural communities. Shell forced to settle out of courtDamning evidence reveals Shell’s complicity in crimes against humanity as a landmark case is resolved in favour of families of executed Nigerian environmental leader Ken Saro-Wiwa and others after a 14 year legal battle. |
