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Powering the Plunder: What Morocco and Siemens are hiding at COP22, Marrakech

7 November 2016 - by Western Sahara Ressource Watch

At COP22, beware of what you read about Morocco’s renewable energy efforts. An increasing part of the projects take place in the occupied territory of Western Sahara and is used for mineral plunder, new WSRW report documents. An increasing part (...)
Migrations – Looting and Climate

20 October 2016 - by Nicolas Sersiron

With its 1.79 children per household, Germany is in demographic decline. The production of its wealth relies on wage earners. It must import a workforce for which it does not have to provide care for the first few years and which it hopes will (...)
Are renewables really environmentally friendly?

26 September 2016 - by Robin Delobel

“Africa is at the sharp end of the consequences of climate change, despite only being responsible for 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions, for which developed countries have historically been responsible. The rest of the world must settle this (...)
Local anger is rising against South Africa’s ‘resource curse’

12 May 2016 - by Patrick Bond

South African society’s conflict with a mainstay of the country’s corporate economy – resource extraction – is permanently on display in the platinum, gold and coalfields in the north and north-east of the country. Now communities on the country’s (...)
Paying climate debts for global climate justice

4 December 2015 - by Helmut Selinger

The issue of worldwide climate injustice has been high on the agenda of the global climate movement for several years. This injustice stems from the fact that many countries of the Global South are suffering the worst effects of anthropogenic (...)
Cooking the planet

17 November 2015 - by Corporate Europe Observatory

One year on from the appointment of Cañete and Šefčovič, Corporate Europe Observatory takes a look at who the commissioners responsible for climate and energy policies are meeting, and finds Big Energy dominating the agenda. According to data (...)
Open letter to the President of Ecuador, Rafael CORREA DELGADO

29 December 2014 - by Collectif

Those of us who sign this letter were surprised with the news that the government of Ecuador decided to revoke the 1991 agreement that loaned the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) the use of their building. In our (...)
Out of Africa: Tax evasion, capital flight and debt

28 April 2014 - by John Weeks

Though thoroughly documented, the fact that illegal capital flight and tax evasion far exceed inflows of development assistance and direct investment for sub-Saharan countries is rarely noted in the mainstream media. Even modest steps toward (...)
GMOs, water grab and ice cream for the masses - the EBRD gets involved with Nestlé Egypt

14 February 2014 - by Sophie Delaval

The EBRD’s board of directors yesterday approved a USD 20 million loan for the expansion of Nestlé Egypt food production company. Leaving aside the question whether Nestlé – one of the world’s largest companies from one of the world’s richest (...)
The Newest Threat to People and the Planet

The Rise of “Sub-Imperialism”

26 November 2012 - by Patrick Bond

The heads of state of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa BRICS network are coming to Durban in four months, meeting on 26-27 March at the International Convention Centre (ICC), Africa’s largest venue. Given their recent performance, it is (...)
Open letter to the Argentine people concerning the expropriation of the petroleum multinational Repsol

24 April 2012 - by CADTM AYNA, CADTM Europe

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 (...)
Declaration by the African organizations at the Alternative World Water Forum

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 (...)
India - Unified struggles against United aggression

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

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 (...)
India: Peoples’s forest rights rally demanding community rights over natural resources

10 December 2011 - by National Forest Rights Campaign

MARCH TO DELHI FOREST RESOURCES ARE OUR BIRTH RIGHT. RIGHT TO PEOPLE’S control over NATURAL RESOURCES. MARCH TO DELHI IMPLEMENT FOREST RIGHTS ACT. RECOGNIZE COMMUNITY RIGHTS OVER FOREST. Friends, The Scheduled Tribes and Other (...)
Hopenhagen, hypocrisy and Coca-Cola

29 December 2009 - by Farooq Sulehria

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, (...)
Public Hearing, 9 december

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

20 December 2009 - by Belgian Network on Natural Resources

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 (...)
Water resources and climate change in MENA region

4 December 2009 - by Jawad Moustakbal

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 (...)
The global food price crisis - a critique of orthodox perspectives

10 July 2009 - by Walden Bello

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, (...)
STOP the violence against Peruvian indigenous people. STOP NOW THE FTAs!

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) (...)
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

4 March 2009 - by Jawad Moustakbal

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?

24 September 2008 - by Nicolás Angulo Sanchez

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 (...)
Natural Resources are the Common Goods of Humanity

20 July 2008 - by CADTM

Controlling the use of natural resources is one of the major concerns of all governments. However, large quantities of these natural resources are found in countries of the South (oil, metals, diamond, timber, etc.) and thus attract the great (...)
Characteristics of the experiences underway in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia

4 July 2008 - by Eric Toussaint

In Latin America, if we exclude Cuba, we can point to three general categories of governments. First, the governments of the right, the allies of Washington, that play an active role in the region and occupy a strategic position: these are the (...)
Chavez Throws Down the Guantlet to EU’s Racist Immigration Policy – Threatens to Cut Off Oil and Return Investments

Two hours ago President Hugo Chavez issued an unprecedented challenge to the European Union’s new anti-immigrant Return Directive. He promised that no Venezuelan oil would be sent to any European country that applies the directive, and that if (...)
Global Famine

1 June 2008 - by Michel Chossudovsky

Humanity is undergoing in the post-Cold War era an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the World population. National economies are collapsing, unemployment is rampant. Local (...)