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TNI fellows, staff and consultants who are quoted, interviewed, featured or published in other media outlets. Please note that as many of our network also work for other organisations, we do not assume to take credit for all of these media "hits."

FDI Could Worsen Burma’s Ethnic Strife
The Irrawaddy

The report “Developing Disparity: regional investment in Burma’s borderlands,” by the Transnational Institute and the Burma Centre Netherlands, said Burma’s reforms are helping to rapidly integrate it with the burgeoning regional economy and the country’s ethnic areas are likely targets for foreign businesses.

February 2013
New TNI-BCN Burma report on Regional Investment
New TNI-BCN Burma report on Regional Investment (21 February 2013)

Burma has entered a pivotal stage in its political and economic development. The advent of a new quasi-civilian government has raised the prospect of fundamental reforms.

February 2013
Corporations, investors 'grabbing' land and water overseas
Mother Nature Network

There is little international policing of land deals resulting in local farmers being forced off lands and deeper into poverty.

February 2013
De gevaren van extreme rijkdom
De Wereld Morgen

Wie heerst er over de planeet in tijden van economische en ecologische crisis? Het Transnational Institute (TNI), een wereldwijde coalitie van wetenschapsactivisten, maakt jaarlijks een stand van zaken op.

February 2013
Free Trade and Workers’ Rights in Colombia: “Peace” the European Way
Upside Down World

The EU spends ten times as much on subsidies to its producers than do their Colombian counterparts, and mainly produces dairy products such as whey, while Colombia’s chief export is simply milk.

January 2013
UN accepts “coca leaf chewing” in Bolivia
Merco Press

Bolivia will again belong to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs after its bid to rejoin with a reservation that it does not accept the treaty’s requirement that “coca leaf chewing must be banned” was successful Friday. Opponents needed one-third of the 184 signatory countries to object, but fell far, far short despite objections by the US and the International Narcotics Control Board.

January 2013
US, Few Others Object to Bolivia UN Coca-Chewing Bid
Stop the Drug War

Formal objections from four Western countries are the latest twist in Bolivia's effort to remove the international proscription on the ancestral habit of coca leaf chewing.

January 2013
Uruguay postpones vote on 'state as dealer' approach to drug regulation - but not for long?
Christian Science Monitor

Uruguay has been on the vanguard of drug policy reform in the Americas, proposing a state regulatory market for the cultivation and consumption of marijuana. President Mujica always said he wouldn't push the proposal if a majority of Uruguayans didn't accept it. But few think this postponement means the project is forever shelved.

January 2013
Chiquita’s illegale activiteiten gaan door via Banacol
Noticias

Banacol maakt zich schuldig aan illegale landinvasies en ondersteuning van paramilitaire groepen in Colombia. Via een constructie verkoopt het aan Chiquita Brands, die op zo handel in Colombiaans fruit voortzet ondanks opgelegde sancties vanwege steun aan paramilitairen.

December 2012
South Africa: The Great South African Cell Phone Rip-Off
allAfrica

Can South Africa learn from Venezuela when looking at state telecommunications provider like CANTV?

December 2012
The New War on Drugs: ASEAN Style
The Diplomat

ASEAN nations are stepping up their fight against illegal drugs as other parts of the world are taking a much different approach

November 2012
The complex law suits that cost poor countries dearly
The Bureau for Investigative Journalism

When nations fall out with corporations, the dispute is increasingly likely to end up before an investment arbitration tribunal – but all too often, it is lawyers who end up reaping the benefits, a new report claims.

November 2012
Investitionsschutzklagen Ein Milliardengeschäft für findige Anwälte
Die Zeit Online

Eine neue Studie zeigt: Spekulanten und Anwälte nutzen immer öfter internationales Recht, um gegen Staaten zu klagen – auf Kosten der Bürger.

November 2012
New report shows lawyers win in free trade battles - Greens
Voxy.co.nz

A new report on how the legal industry is exploiting investment state disputes clauses in trade agreements shows why New Zealand must refuse to sign any trade agreement that includes these provisions.

November 2012
National dialogue on Land Tenure and Land Use rights held
New Light of Myanmar

The Union minister U Tin Naing Thein called for suggestions on urbanization projects, housing plans for the increased population and plans for homeless persons. He stressed the need to put emphasis on ensuring better socioeconomic status of rural people who make up 70 per cent of the total population and laying down farmland and land use policies.

November 2012
U.S. votes to legalize pot
Miami Herald

Voters in Colorado and Washington state who approved the recreational use of marijuana Tuesday sent a salvo from the ballot box that will ricochet around Latin America.

November 2012
Accusations of landgrabbing overshadow ASEM
Deutsche Welle

According to NGOs active in Laos, the recent ASEM 9 conference was held on land that had been taken away from local residents. They say this is representative of an increase in landgrabs across Asia.

November 2012
Asem leaders told: Counter crises effects with people-centered policies
Inquirer Global Nation

The people’s pauperization and environmental destruction caused by the still-raging global financial crisis must be countered with people-centered policies and practices, international civil society groups told state leaders of Asia and Europe Tuesday.

November 2012
Biggest blow to Mexico drug cartels
The Christian Science Monitor

A Mexican study says legalizing marijuana for recreational use in the US - an issue on the ballot in three US states - could cut the proceeds of Mexican drug gangs by 30 percent.

November 2012
Narco-States Grope for New Strategy*
IPS

Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala face the need to modify their approach to the fight against drug trafficking and are urging the world to do the same. But Mexico and Colombia’s willingness to make the necessary changes is unclear.

November 2012