Globalization
- Thu Jun 05 2008
Food scarcity creating new world order
Unprecedented food scarcity is beginning to dictate the rules of a new political order where individual countries are scrambling to secure their own food supplies with little concern for the rest of the world, says the founder of the Earth Policy Institute.
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Globalization
- Wed Jun 04 2008
Farmers bringing message to the Food Crisis Summit in Rome expelled
Farmer and civil society leaders carrying out a peaceful action in Rome, Italy at the FAO Summit on the Food Crisis were forcefully removed from the premises.
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Social Development
- Tue May 20 2008
Global Civil society challenge world governments and the FAO on the food crisis and global warming
Hundreds of farmers, fisher folks pastoralists and activists from environmental groups and other civil society organisations are gathering in Rome (May 30 - June 5) for a parallel initiative to the FAO Conference on food security and global warming to ask governments and the FAO to take up their responsibilities in today's food emergency.
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Globalization
- Mon May 19 2008
Final ruling of Tribunal against transnationals corporations: GUILTY!
The session of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on European transnational corporations in Latin America, which took place in Lima, resolved to "morally and ethically sanction" the companies as well as the "political, economic, financial, productive and judicial conducts and practices of the neoliberal model, implemented and permitted by the EU".
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Globalization
- Fri May 16 2008
International civil society organisations protest Telecom Italia’s new attacks and confiscatory measures against Bolivia
Civil society organisations meeting in the People’s Social Summit in Lima denounce the recent decision of ETI and Telecom Italia to demand that the New York State Court freeze the accounts of the National Telecommunications Company (ENTEL) as part of a strategy of aggression against the government of Bolivia.
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Globalization
- Thu May 15 2008
Permanent Peoples' Tribunal: Second Session on European transnational companies
Accused and judged before the Tribunal are European transnational companies in Latin America as well as the national and international mechanisms and actors which enable, legitimate and support the companies in their actions.
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Globalization
- Thu May 15 2008
European corporations on trial
Twenty European corporations are being tried for human rights violations before an ethical tribunal at the Peoples’ Summit, organised for the third time by the Bi-Regional Network "Enlazando Alternativas" (Linking Alternatives) in Lima. The organisers announced that they hope to take some of these cases to ordinary courts of justice in Peru.
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Globalization
- Tue May 13 2008
The People's Summit starts promoting integration alternatives based on justice, solidarity and peace
In a theatre of the National Engineering University packed to the seams with people, preventing many others from entering, the People’s Summit Linking Alternatives 3 began 13 May in Lima, Peru.
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Globalization
- Mon May 12 2008
Portrait of an iconoclast
An interview with Dr Peter Waterman, by Dr Rosalba Icaza.
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Social Development
- Thu May 08 2008
Trade unions demand action on world food crisis
In response to the deepening global food crisis the ITUC has called on governments and world institutions to take far-reaching measures to guarantee food security for all.
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