UNITED NATIONS: Third Committee approves the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas

La Via Campesina

    PRESS RELEASE | LA VIA CAMPESINA   19 November. Monday, [NEW YORK]   The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) of the UN General Assembly voted in favour of the UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and●●●

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TIME’S UP FOR CORPORATE PLUNDER OF OUR NATURAL RESOURCES 

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    Local communities from around the world, and particularly, the global south are saying enough is enough to the corporate plunder of our natural resources.    Extractivism – the  over-exploitation of natural resources through mining, intensive agriculture, large-scale fishing, logging●●●

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PRESS RELEASE – Record number of states attend start of UN negotiations for a treaty on transnational corporations and Human Rights

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    16 October 2018, Geneva: The Ground-breaking process aiming to bring transnational corporations to account for their human rights violations is increasingly catching the attention of UN member states delegates, civil society and peoples’ representatives worldwide. Members of parliaments●●●

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