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    State of Corporate Power 2012
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    January 2012
    TNI

    Who are the global 1%? What companies do they run? How do they escape accountability? Check out TNI's powerful infographic displays that expose the social and environmental costs of global corporate power.

    The War on Colombia’s Poor
    January 2012
    Ross Eventon

    The EU's proposed free trade agreement with Colombia will worsen the already serious human rights violations in the country, as its drive to access to cheap raw materials for European corporations means forcing local people off their land.

    RIO+20 and the greenwashing of the global economy
    January 2012
    Olivier Hoedeman

    Challenging the corporate co-option of the UN should be a major priority in the run-up to the UN Rio+20 Earth Summit in June 2012.

    Revival of the public water sector
    October 2011
    Water Justice

    As Amsterdam hosts its first International Water Week, TNI and its allies will be actively promoting Water Operators’ Partnerships (WOPs) between public water utilities as the best means to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

    The EU Crisis Pocket Guide
    October 2011
    TNI

    A useful pocket guide on how a crisis made in Wall Street was made worse by EU policies, how it has enriched the 1% to the detriment of the 99%, and outlining some possible solutions that prioritise people and the environment above corporate profits.

    Land, conflict and the challenge of pro-poor peace-building
    October 2011
    Jennifer Franco
    Jun Borras

    There is a lot of contention over approaches to land reform policy, in terms of how to involve the state, the market and communities; but what matters most for a socio-economically and politically sustainable solution, is that the policy is genuinely 'pro-poor'.

    Austerity Forever
    October 2011
    Kenneth Haar, Corporate Europe Observatory

    The European Union’s new model of economic governance, including the Euro Pact, is a model of prolonged austerity.

    The public debt crisis in Greece
    October 2011
    Marica Frangakis, Nicos Poulantzas Institute, Athens

    Every story needs a narrative, an explanation of why things happened the way they did. In such a narrative lie the answers of how to avoid/correct similar developments in the future and how to propagate positive ones.

    600.000 new water connections due to Asian WOPs
    September 2011
    Satoko Kishimoto

    Stockholm Water Week included a whole day of seminars with a
    regional focus and I opted to attend 'Eye on Asia: Partnerships for
    Water: How Can Asia Do More?'

    

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    Activists mark one-year anniversary of recognition of human right to water and sanitation
    August 2011
    Satoko Kishimoto

    A group of activists celebrated the right to water in front of a public water fountain in the centre of Brussels on 27 July.  The occasion was the one-year anniversary of the UN's recognition of right to clean and safe drinking water and sanitation as human right.

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