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Urgent need for binding obligations on Transnational Corporations raised at the UN

John Ruggie's proposed guidelines to the UN on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations fail to bring TNCs under any binding law, thefore enabling human rights and environmental crimes to continue with impunity.

Latin America–Europe relations: Time for a new era

In response to the aggressive corporate-led trade agenda of the EU, social movements from Latin America and Europe are mounting an Alternative Peoples’ Summit, the Enlazando Alternativas 4, which takes place from May 14-17 in Madrid.

Perspectives on regional integration

The current paradigmatic crisis needs to be dealt with at the regional level. In this respect, Latin American movements have already mobilised and placed different models of development and integration at the centre of their struggle. However, the European Union model, whereby integration is geared towards the interests of transnational corporations, should be avoided.

European Union and Transnational Corporations

Extensive documentation of the operations of the European transnational corporations in Latin America and the Caribbean and their systematic abuses of human rights is brought to the attention of European policy makers in the European Parliament Hearing held in Brussels on November 18, 2009.

Profit Before People and Human Rights

The report exposes the role of EU institutions in constructing a complex political and legal architecture which allows European transnational companies to operate with impunity in the region.

Where have all our Human Rights Gone? EU Migration Policy 2008: Response and Resistance

The Single European Act ratified in 1987, introduces the discussion on migrants in the same paragraph as drug traffickers and terrorists. Ever since, European migration policy has pursued an approach of criminalizing migrants.

Global Europe FTAs
Petroleum TNCs in Columbia – Death traded for Petrol and Profits
Por um modelo público de água

Estão reunidos na obra experiências de resistência contra a
privatização e mercantilização e casos
exemplares de gestão pública da água.

Reclaiming Public Water (Japanese edition)

Japanese edition of "Reclaiming Public Water" book.

Reclaiming Public Water (Hindi edition)

Hindi edition including two extra chapters in English on struggles to reclaim public water in India

Reclaiming Public Water (Korean edition)

Korean version of Reclaiming Public Water was published by the Korean Government Employees' Union (KGEU).

Reclaiming Public Water (Chinese edition)

Chinese version of Reclaiming Public Water with additional chapters.

Reclaiming Public Water (Indonesian edition)

Indonesian edition.

Acqua: Per un modello publico di gestione

E' incredibile come, nonostante le diversità dei contesti sociali,
giuridici ed ambientali e dei processi attivati dalle diverse campagne,
alcune proposte concrete siano alla fine molto simili tra di loro.

Reclaiming Public Water book

The groundbreaking book on how reformed public water services can achieve the goal of delivering water for all. Includes additional new chapters.

Vettä Kaikille (Reclaiming Public Water Finnish edition)

Ordering Finnish edition of "Reclaiming Public Water" book

Reclaiming Public Water
Postscript to Hong Kong WTO MC 6
Diary Notes on WTO M6 - the View from Gloucester Road