Natural Resources

• Open letter to the Argentine people concerning the expropriation of the petroleum multinational Repsol

  by CADTM Abya Yala Nuestra America, CADTM Europe

  24 April 2012

  CADTM Abya Yala Nuestra America, (CADTM AYNA) and CADTM Europe firmly support the sovereign right of the Argentine nation to declare YFP, the principal petroleum company operating within its territory, to be of public utility and to proceed to the expropriation of the stock held by the Spanish multinational Repsol. We fervently reject the international campaign of menaces and calls for heavy sanctions against Argentina initiated and transmitted by unscrupulous bosses, the Spanish (...)

• Declaration by the African organizations at the Alternative World Water Forum

  21 March 2012

  We, African organizations at the Alternative World Water Forum, in Marseille from 14 to 17 March 2012, Given the growing pressures of the multinational corporations on the water resources in Africa, Given the privatization of the public water supply sector and that of the water distribution companies in Africa, Given the different types of violation of the African peoples’ right to access to drinkable water, Given the struggles waged by the social movements and trade unions for the (...)

• India - Unified struggles against United aggression

  National Federation formed to step up Struggle to protect Rights of Natural Resource based Traditional Communities

  22 December 2011

  New Delhi, December 16 2011: “The fish in the sea would not have been there, if not for the rain, and the rivers, produced by the hills and the forests. The fishworkers of this country cannot sustain ourselves without identifying with and struggling together with the forest people, the handloom weavers, the women vendors, the bamboo workers, etc of this country” T. Peter, National Secretary of National Fishworkers’ Forum said. Peter was speaking at the national conference of traditional (...)

• Hopenhagen, hypocrisy and Coca-Cola

  by Farooq Sulehria

  29 December 2009

  India’s leading environmentalist, Vandana Shiva had her ’’heart just sank’’ as she got off the flight at Copenhagen airport, when the first thing she ’’saw was a Coca-Cola bottle’’ as sponsor for ’’Hopenhagen’’. Sponsored by notorious corporate giants, Hopenhagen was a big campaign during the COP15. Talking to Democarcy Now’s Amy Goodman, on December 14, Vandana Shiva said: ’’ Coca-Cola should not be the symbol of finding solutions for the climate crisis’’. She pointed out: if you’ve been to Plachimada, (...)

• Public Hearing, 9 december

  Natural Resources Curse in Central Africa: Can the EU Contribute to Fairer Economic Relations? Recommendations to the European Parliament

  by Belgian Network on Natural Resources

  20 December 2009

  Presented by the members of the Belgian Network on Natural Resources A. In order for natural resources to be managed in a transparent and sustainable manner 1.The EU should include transparency, good governance, and the principle of free and prior informed consent by local populations in EU policies and legal agreements vis-à-vis resource-rich countries (such as the Cotonou agreement, trade and investment agreements, Country Strategy Papers, National Indicative Programmes, or Corporate (...)

• Water resources and climate change in MENA region

  
  by Jawad Moustakbal

  4 December 2009

  WATER is a typical example of common good. There is no need to illustrate the importance of water: Water is life. All civilisations agreed about sacristy of water but with the current liberal globalization which aim and operate to transform everything to a commodity, water is no longer considered as a public common good but like any other commodity, speculated by few multinationals such as Veolia and Suez. The MENA region is a large zone extending from Morocco in northwest Africa to Iran (...)

• The global food price crisis - a critique of orthodox perspectives

  by Walden Bello

  10 July 2009

  Capitalist industrial agriculture, with its wrenching destabilisation and transformation of land, nature, and social relations is responsible for today’s food crises, argues Walden Bello. In an extract from his forthcoming book Food Wars, Walden Bello critiques the orthodox views of economist Paul Collier on the global food price crisis. Collier argues that not enough food was produced to meet increased demand from Asia, thanks to a failure to promote commercial farming in Africa, the (...)

• STOP the violence against Peruvian indigenous people. STOP NOW THE FTAs!

  15 June 2009

  The Indigenous populations of the Peruvian Amazonia started a general and peaceful strike for almost 60 days to protest against 10 legislative decrees promoted by the Peruvian Government in order to comply with the Free trade Agreement (FTA) with US that threatens their rights and their environment. More specifically, the FTA with the US permits oil and mining companies to enter 44 out of 75 million hectares of Amazonian forest, which are Indigenous territories, without any kind of (...)

• WSF Belem 2009. Panel "Ecological debt and common goods:for the peoples’ recovery of control over natural resources"

  Water Resources and climate change in MENA region

  
  by Jawad Moustakbal

  4 March 2009

  WSF Belem 2009. Intervention of Jawad Moustakbal (ATTAC / CADTM Maroc ) during the panel "Ecological debt and common goods: for the peoples’ recovery of control over natural resources"

• Which development facing poverty?

  by Nicolás ANGULO SÁNCHEZ

  24 September 2008

  When we speak of human development and the reduction of poverty, we must not refer to the unleashed consumption of goods (from cars, computers, increasingly powerful cell phones down to an almost unlimited variety of any product), but to the fact that every human being should be able to satisfy his basic needs of food, health care, housing, education, for example, as well as having enough leisure time to enjoy culture and the arts, carry out enriching social relations, make our legitimate (...)

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