Multinational corporation

World Economic Forum plutocrats suffer vertigo on contemporary capitalism’s roller-coaster

17 January 2023 - by Patrick Bond

Part 1: The context of extreme financial devaluations The World Economic Forum is meeting in Davos this week. The gathering of many of the wealthiest corporate elites and state leaders compels consideration of directions global capitalist (...)
Philanthrocapitalism seen from South Africa

9 August 2022 - by Patrick Bond

Presentation to the African Philanthropy Academic Conference, 2 August 2022 University of the Witwatersrand Business School Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment, by Patrick Bond, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University (...)
Multinational Corporations and COVID-19: Intellectual property rights vs. human rights

11 September 2021 - by Peter Rossman

The multilateral trading system anchored by the WTO is not confined to cross-border trade in physical goods. It was also designed to protect corporate knowledge monopolies. Developing countries were told that strict adherence to the rules of (...)
Nigeria: Extraction-driven devastation: an interview with Nnimmo Bassey

28 April 2021 - by Nnimmo Bassey, ROAPE

In early 2021, anti-extractivist struggles won two major legal victories against Shell Oil’s operations in Nigeria. These wins represent decades of community organizing on the part of Niger Delta activists and residents. ROAPE’s Lee Wengraf (...)
Barbarians at the barn: private equity sinks its teeth into agriculture

17 December 2020 - by GRAIN

Financial flows going into agriculture are growing more and more institutionalised – and more and more private. To be sure, investing in agriculture has been going on since time immemorial. After all, farmers do it every day as they improve their (...)
Total Uganda case in France: the Court of Appeal of Versailles remands the case to the commercial court

11 December 2020 - by Survie, Les Amis de la Terre, CCFD-Terre Solidaire , ActionAid France-Peuples Solidaires, Collectif Ethique sur l’étiquette

The Versailles Court of Appeal today issued its decision on the case against the oil giant Total led by six French and Ugandan associations - Friends of the Earth France, Survie, AFIEGO, CRED, NAPE and NAVODA - which constitutes the first legal (...)
State of Power 2020

Corporations as private sovereign powers: the case of Total

7 February 2020 - by Alain Deneault

Total is viewed as “a French oil company,” but in reality it is — like many other transnational corporations — more like a private sovereign power. Contribution of the philosopher Alain Deneault at « State of Power 2020 ». Having studied, written (...)
Final Declaration of the Global Campaign to Claim People’s Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and End Impunity in Relation to the V Session of the OEIGWG

22 October 2019 - by Stop corporate impunity

Final Declaration of the Global Campaign to Claim People’s Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and End Impunity in Relation to the V Session of the OEIGWG. Mr. Chair President and delegations of the States present, This statement is made (...)
Financial institutions complicit in impact of austerity measures on human rights, says UN expert

10 September 2019 - by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky

GENEVA (10 September 2019) – Austerity measures imposed by international financial institutions such as the IMF, regularly cause violations of human rights, says UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky in a (...)
World Bank’s women entrepreneur initiatives just “smoke and mirrors”

30 August 2019 - by Bretton Woods Project

In April, the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative. In conversation with World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva, Ivanka Trump introduced We-Fi commenting, “women are the greatest underleveraged resource in the developing world,” encouraging women (...)
Massive Mobilisation of the International Civil Society on the Global Anti-Chevron Day #AntiChevron

22 May 2019 - by Collective

Press release Amsterdam/Geneva/Quito May 21st 2019 268 organisations, networks, social movements and trade unions from different continents, representing more than 280 millions of persons, are mobilised to denounce the Chevron’s impunity in (...)
The case of Chevron in the Ecuadorian Amazon:

The ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada closes the doors to end impunity

5 April 2019 - by Stop corporate impunity

The Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples´ Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and End Impunity regrets the ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada regarding the case of Chevron in the Ecuadorian Amazon, and reaffirms the urgent need to establish (...)
G4S: When a private company is in charge of your security

11 April 2017 - by Jérôme Duval

The security context in Europe today doesn’t make everybody unhappy, especially among firms that have specialised in security and surveillance. Among them, the British G4S, to which many governments subcontract their dirty work, ranging from (...)
Doing without advice from Deloitte?

27 September 2016 - by Jérôme Duval

Nicknamed the “Big Four” Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young (EY), KPMG and Price Water House Coopers (PwC) are the big four audit firms that operate in concert as an inescapable cartel in the world of multinationals and global finance. At (...)