UN Human Rights Council, Geneva ©

1. Provide public services for all. Since 2014, the ‘Our Water Our Rights’ Campaign has mobilised people to resist water privatisation in Lagos, Nigeria, and has successfully increased government spending on water and sanitation ©

2. Scale up the solidarity economy. More than one billion people globally are members of cooperatives that empower workers to control their workplaces and provide a democratic alternative to the corporate business model ©

3. Stop bad trade deals and support local markets. Friends of the Earth Europe and allies mobilised millions of people to stop TTIP, a trade agreement that would have given more power to transnational corporations at the expense of people and the planet ©

4. Binding rules on big business. “It is time for a legally binding instrument to control transnational corporations with respect to human rights and challenge their economic and political power.” Letícia Paranhos, FoEI ©

5. Stopping corporate impunity. A protest organised by Friends of the Earth Netherlands/Milieudefensie to demand corporate accountability in the case against Shell ©

6. Change the goal of the economy. We need a new economic paradigm that puts life before profit or economic growth. A giant mural painted to protest hundreds of hydropower dams planned in the Balkan region ©