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Despite COVID19 limitations, civil society drives momentum for historic UN binding treaty.
The sixth round of negotiations of the United Nations (UN) Open Ended Inter-governmental Working Group (OEIGWG) mandated to elaborate...
04 November, 2020Oil company Total back in Court for human rights violations in Uganda
On Wednesday 28 October, 10:30 am, the appeal hearing against oil giant Total will start in Versailles Court of...
27 October, 2020‘Junk agroecology’: How corporations are co-opting peoples’ solutions to the food crisis
A new report launched today exposes how agribusiness corporations like Nestle, Cargill, Unilever and Pepsico, together with the World...
13 October, 2020Global coalition releases liability roadmap for governments to Make Big Polluters Pay
WORLDWIDE – Today, a global coalition released a “liability roadmap”: a first-of-its-kind tool outlining how local to global decision...
15 September, 2020Second revised draft of UN binding treaty has “lost its soul”
The member organisations of the Global Campaign to Reclaim People's Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity take note...
02 September, 2020Stop all trade and investment treaty negotiations during COVID-19 crisis and focus on access to medical supplies and saving lives
Dear World Trade Organization Members, A new coronavirus has caused a COVID-19 pandemic that has spread across nearly all...
21 April, 2020Dutch court opens Shell climate case to public showdown
AMSTERDAM, 8 April 2020 — The spotlight will now be firmly on the Shell climate case, instigated by Friends of the...
08 April, 2020Global rescue plan to stop extinction “hopelessly weak and inadequate”
Rome, 24 February 2020 - A draft global plan to halt the collapse of nature will not protect vulnerable...
24 February, 2020Time to tackle biodiversity loss: Draft post-2020 UN Framework not ambitious enough
2020 is hailed as the “super year” for biodiversity: an opportunity to address the dire state of the natural...
17 January, 2020