Fixing Free Trade Agreements:
Putting People and the Planet over Corporate Profit
Today's trade rules are not designed first and foremost to protect workers, the environment or public health. They ...
... in defense of resources, of life. We have a system that responds to the logic of death, with a form of "development" that is making our planet sick and killing it.
We are there fighting, while the system ...
PROSPECT
Sasha Chavkin
From tropical rain forests to drinkable water, a vast share of the planet’s essential environmental resources are found in developing countries. When growth-oriented governments ...
... the lives of people and the planet. Mexico entered the economic opening phase on May 18, when the different industries had to present a protocol on how they would open their operations. Since the mining ...
... susceptible to emerging zoonotic diseases like COVID-19 as our health erodes alongside the planet’s.
But instead of stepping up to the plate, the Duterte administration has abandoned all pretenses of ...
... mining corporations will not deliver a future for the Global South that ensures good food, clean air and water, healthy communities, and planetary survival. However, the health-centered struggles and collective ...
... and governments are using the crisis to secure regulatory change that favours the industry at the expense of people and planet
The report was jointly produced by Earthworks (USA), Institute for Policy ...
... possible to have El Salvador as the first country that prohibits metal mining on the planet. It was an important achievement. But we still have pending debts at the level of justice in El Salvador and ...
... within the national territory.
With the slogan "For the planet, water and territory", the XX Ecological Walk was carried out online given the current health and climate situation. The online Ecological ...
Manuel Perez Rocha - Inequality
NAFTA 2.0 cleared another hurdle on January 16 as the U.S. Senate approved the trade deal with bipartisan support.
Officially called the United States-Mexico-Canada ...
... resistance against one of the most polluting and conflictive industries known on the planet. On October 14, 2016, after seven years of litigation at the International Center for the Settlement of Investment ...
... legal and political tactics, an elite foreign interest is profiting at the expense of people and planet," stated Laura Martin, Executive Director of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN). ...
... and the style of this special human being who had come from the other side of the planet in solidarity with El Salvador.
Time and again during his visit, Padilla told me how pleased he was to be part ...
... planet first.
Robin Broad is a professor at American University and John Cavanagh is the director of the Institute for Policy Studies. They are the co-authors of Development Redefined: How the Market ...
... is part of a trade model that puts the needs of corporations before the needs of workers and the planet. The Salvadoran government did what a responsive democratic system is supposed to do: it listened ...
... interactions in order to assess their perceived likelihood and impact. The purpose of the report is to raise awareness of the interconnectedness of the planet and call for diverse stakeholder collaboration ...
... by linking up counterpowers opposing the most powerful corporations on the planet.
"Peoples Sovereignty vs. Impunity Inc.: Counterpower and Struggles for Justice” presents, in eight articles, various ...
... the Chair of the Council of Canadians and founder of the Blue Planet Project -- a global initiative to promote water as a human right and a vital part of the commons.
Meera Karunananthan is the international ...
Ottawa – Canadian investments are coming between citizens of El Salvador and their water, says a new report. Authored by Meera Karunananthan of the Blue Planet Project and Susan Spronk of the University ...
... offices in Canada. The demonstration featured participants from dozens of organizations from around the world that had gathered in Toronto for a planning session organized the Blue Planet project and ...