Big multinationals are paying significantly lower tax rates than before the 2008 financial crisis, according to Financial Times analysis showing that a decade of government efforts to cut deficits and reform taxes has left the corporate world largely unscathed.●●●
Positive move towards historic treaty on transnational corporations and human rights at UN Human Rights Council
Friends of the Earth International (FOEI)
Binding treaty draft text to be discussed in October Geneva, 9 March 2018 This week the Human Rights Council was debating the binding treaty on transnational corporations once again. It was a hopeful sign that, on●●●
Looming threats to the mining prohibition in El Salvador
International Allies Against Mining in El Salvador
In March 2017, El Salvador became the first country in the world to ban metallic mining. But the huge victory of the antimining movement and the international recognition it has garnered may be overshadowed by a current electoral campaign●●●
