Trade Deals Boosting Climate Change: The Food Factor
October 26, 2015
We see seven main ways through which the food and agriculture components of today’s trade and investment deals will make the climate crisis worse.
Category: Land
Guatemala on the eve of the Second Round of Elections
October 20, 2015
A series of unforeseen circumstances led us to this election: first, the fall of the president and vice president after the revelation of a corruption network that they had created to steal state resources and tax revenues, and second, the demonstrations that consolidated opposition to several politicians, including Manuel Baldizón, who had faced Otto Pérez Molina in the second-round of elections in 2011 and had been considered the favorite by opinion polls.
October 16th: International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty and Against Transnational Corporations
October 16, 2015
La Via Campesina calls its members and allies, and civil society organizations to mobilize and organize actions on October 16th, the International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty and against transnational corporations (TNCs).
TPP, NAFTA Reloaded
October 16, 2015
The product of exclusive negotiations that took place behind closed doors, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) represents the final sale of Mexico to the multinational corporations. In other words, a farewell to whatever national sovereignty still exists, and the elimination of any possibility of recuperating food sovereignty.
Canadian Mining Puts Lives and Democracy at Risk in the Americas
October 13, 2015
MiningWatch Canada and the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) released a report that squarely links Canadian mining interests throughout the Americas with intensifying repression and violence against mining-affected communities.
A Tale of Two Food Prizes
October 12, 2015
What do human rights and oppression have to do with hunger? Everything.
World Court Accepts Jurisdiction in Bolivia-Chile Dispute
October 12, 2015
The International Court of Justice at The Hague on 24 September 2015 found it has jurisdiction in The Obligation to Negotiate Access to the Pacific Ocean (Bolivia v. Chile).
Drugs and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
October 7, 2015
Yet like NAFTA before it, the TPP could open the door wide to greater and more lucrative opportunities for a generally unspoken class of entrepreneurs lurking in the midst–drug traffickers.
Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras Wins Food Sovereignty Prize for Defense of Lands
October 7, 2015
In 2015, the US Food Sovereignty Prize honors the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH by its Spanish acronym), Afro-indigenous farmers and fisherpeople who are defending their lands, waters, agriculture, and way of life.
Interconnection without Integration: 15 years of IIRSA
October 6, 2015
It has been 15 years since the creation of the Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America (IIRSA), and from the perspective of its contribution to integration, evaluation is necessary.